Hello, I cannot apply my credits with a letter grade of "D" for a degree any longer at EC. Where else can I do that? I think I have about 30 credits with "D". Thanks, alx
According to their website, Charter Oak accepts transfer credits with "D-" or above grades, but incorporating 30 hours worth of 1.0 GPA work into your degree plan means you would need to carry at least a 2.33 GPA the rest of the way to be able to graduate, assuming all your credits are graded. If you used 30 hours of CLEP (not graded at COSC), you would need to carry a 2.5 GPA on the remaining 60 hours. It's definitely doable, but you'll likely be graduating "magna cum lucky", not magna cum laude. Still, a degree is a degree is a degree, and that's what counts. Best of luck!
ok, now you owe me a keyboard I just spit my drink all over it laughing...I gotta remember that phrase.....
If you ever plan on getting a graduate degree, I would only transfer the credits with a C- or better and just retake the other classes.
I disagree - I would transfer all the work in and earn the Bachelors degree first. Once the Bachelors is completed, there are plenty of grad programs that will overlook the bad grades, especially if there is a good deal of time between the bad grades and the application. Shawn
In a perfect world Tekman would be right, lick your wounds and start over. But we are all aware it is not a perfect world so I believe he should test out of those classes he is already familar with (for a P/NC) before transfering in the rest. Although math was never my strong suit I cannot follow Fortunato's assumption that he would actually need a higher GPA if he tests out instead of transfering the marginal grades. I thought CLEPS/DANTES did not carry a grade and therefore would not help or hinder the GPA, wouldn't he only need an overall 2.0 for his remaining grades?
Ungraded credit doesn't carry a GPA, but it does reduce the number of graded hours that will be in one's degree program. Assuming the original poster needs 120 credits to graduate, and right now (s)he has 30 "D" credits and no other credit, (s)he has a current GPA of 1.0. To graduate, you need 120 credits and a 2.0 GPA. So, your remaining coursework has to be better than 2.0 to pull your overall GPA up above 2.0. If you included CLEP in your degree program, you decrease the number of graded hours, which means the remaining graded hours now have to be even better to be able to pull the 30 credit hours up to the 2.0 standard. It's a pretty simple piece of algebra, actually. Here's the case without CLEP: (30 + 90x) / 120 = 2 Where: 30 = the current number of credit hours times the current GPA 90 = the number of credit hours remaining x = the average GPA needed for those credit hours 120 = total number of credit hours 2 = the GPA required for graduation Now, if you included 30 hours of CLEP credit, it's true that you don't affect the current GPA, but you *do* affect the GPA you need to earn on your remaining credits. The algebra now looks like this: (30 + 60x) / 90 = 2 Where 30 = the current number of credit hours times the current GPA 60 = the number of credit hours remaining after 30 pass/fail CLEPs x = the average GPA needed for those credit hours 90 = total number of credit hours, minus hours graded pass/fail 2 = the GPA required for graduation The more hours the original poster tests out of, the fewer remaining hours (s)he has to pull up those 30 "D" credits, so each remaining graded hour has to meet a higher standard.
Hence the misunderstanding, I assumed that alx would substitute the CLEP exams for his difficent grades, whereas you were including the CLEPS as additional credit, so yes I would agree that he would then need an even higher gpa for his remaining studies. Still, maybe an algerbra review wouldn't hurt.
If the the OP has are 30 credit hours of 'D' grades and no other credit hours, I have to agree with the statement that the OP start over from scratch. Otherwise, the OP should request that no 'D' grade be transferred into their new degree at another school; many schools do not accept 'D' grades in transfer anyway. The baggage of those 30 credit hours will be rather difficult to downplay as the GPA calculation will reflect those credit hours. Now, if the OP chooses a degree at TESC, for example, there is NO GPA on the final transcript unless you take at least one course from TESC. And if the OP has no desire to go beyond a BA or BS degree, those 'D' grades at TESC will likely never be seen by anyone; most employers only care whether you have a degree and are typically not interested in your GPA.
Now that is funny..magna cum lucky!!! I never heard it put that way. I have heard "magna thank ya laudy" but magna cum lucky....man out of control. LOL....ROTFLMAO
>> If you enroll at TESC, transfer classes are only brought in as credit- so those grades are gone. (Even if they were all A's) There is some rule about D grades inside vs outside your concentration- you would have to apply and get an evaluation to find out if they would take all 30. If they were 100/200 level gen eds, then they should take all of them and you can go forward from there.
