Going back for a few classes before applying!

[kuniklos]

I'm in my last semester of undergrad and a double major in Anthropology (archaeology), and Art History.  I have a 3.7, four years of archaeology experience abroad, two museum internships, I'm president of the Anthropology Club, President for our National Collegiate Anthropology Society, and a teaching assistant in art history.  I frequently attend

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[coaldustcanary]

I don't understand your worry about "ruining your GPA" impacting your decision-making process as to where you take the classes. If you bomb chemistry at a community college, it, too, will hurt your GPA, just the same as if you bomb it at your current institution.

However, that said, the other reasons are very valid, and assuming you have a local solid community college where you can take the courses, totally do that to save costs.

[kuniklos]

I would have thought that since I will have my BA some one university, the new grades would not effect my graduating GPA coming from another be being separate from my degree. I know I only require a C (not that I am aiming for just a C, but I worry about struggling). The two grade sets would be two different transcripts.

If I stay at my current university another semester instead of graduating in December, and took those chem classes and not do well, it would affect my current GPA.

Does that make more sense?

[coaldustcanary]

The GPA you graduate with isn't separate and sanctified from future classes you take. They'll certainly calculate your GPA including your most recent credits, even if it's at a new institution, or on separate transcripts. They may even specifically ask you to do it on the application, or ask you to calculate a second GPA of only the last X number of credits of work you've done.

[everyoneiknow]

My field is something completely different, but none of the schools I applied to asked for this. They only asked that I list each institution and my gpa at each school.

[kuniklos]

Yes, that's the same with the schools I was looking into.