Anderson-Rowland, M. R. (2011, June), Reducing GPA shock for Engineering and Computer Science Community College Transfer Students  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18946

\bibitem{asee_peer_18946}
  Anderson-Rowland, M. R. (2011, June), \emph{Reducing GPA shock for Engineering and Computer Science Community College Transfer Students}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18946

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland.  "Reducing GPA shock for Engineering and Computer Science Community College Transfer Students".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/18946 Internet.  08 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_18946}
  Mary R. Anderson-Rowland.
  "Reducing GPA shock for Engineering and Computer Science Community College Transfer Students".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/18946 Internet.  08 Jan, 2025

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AB  -                             Reducing GPA Shock                    For Engineering and Computer Science                    Community College Transfer StudentsDue to tougher economic times, more students are choosing the community college as astart for their college career. This also means that more community college students arebeing encouraged to transfer to four-year institutions in engineering and computerscience to help meet the critical shortage of engineers in the United States. While thereare many adjustments the new transfer student must face, one of the more difficult ones is“GPA shock”. While a community college student may have developed a very solidGPA, when the student transfers to a four-year institution, the GPA starts all over at 0.0.While this phenomenon is disappointing in itself, other factors come to play which maymake the transfer student suffer severe “GPA shock”. The new transfer student facesmany new obstacles and situations that can contribute to a poor academic performance,especially the first semester or year, and a shockingly lower, perhaps a whole grade pointlower, GPA than that accumulated at the community college.This paper will detail these obstacles which may include tougher course work, longerhomework assignments, longer driving times to attend school, less contact withprofessors, large classes, and a lack of knowledge of resources (including free tutoring,information on Blackboard, or tutorials that are readily available). An academicscholarship program success workshop solution to reduce this possible GPA shock willbe presented. A key component of this workshop is the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning Systemdeveloped by Donna O. Johnson. Along with this system, the students learn tips andhelps from other students for making the system work. A comparison of the GPA shockfor new engineering and computer science transfer students in this academic scholarshipprogram will be made with new transfer students not in the program by comparing theircommunity college GPA with their first semester four-year institution GPA.
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