Thomas Edison TESC Degree with No GPA

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  1. nyfaisal

    nyfaisal New Member

    I would take a 1 credit class to get a GPA now, the only one I saw was English class on Pride and Prejudice. Is there any other 1 credit course available at TESC? I enrolled in their graduate program and now being charged $500/credit for both undergrad and graduate course--so need to find 1 credit course, so I have a GPA. DSU requires a GPA on TESC degree :(

    Thanks.
     
  2. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    If you live in California there are often 1 unit courses available from CCs or UC schools. I have several credits from one weekend courses offered by UC Riverside.

    Perhaps there are similar opportunities where you reside.

    Also: what is DSU?
     
  3. nyfaisal

    nyfaisal New Member

    DSU is Dakota State. I am applying to their PhD program. However they are asking me to provide a GPA with TESC degree--the only way to do is to take a course with TESC and earn a GPA. Since I get charged a higher out of state rate $479/credit, I want to take a 1 credit course at TESC
     
  4. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

  5. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

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    If you are applying to DSU and they require a GPA, they will certainly require more than 1 graded credit. Your plan is going to backfire. If you have any prior credit, it will be calculated and your GPA will be used from those classes. You won't need add'l classes at TESC. OTOH, if you don't have any graded credits, that may be a deal breaker for DSU...or not. But 1 credit isn't fooling anyone. I'd skip the $500 TESC class and take a CLEP.
     
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  6. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    This is what I was also wondering but did not know TESCs grading system in detail.
     
  7. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

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    TESC, like most everyone, doesn't issue grades for transfer courses. So, for some people, if you transfer in a whole slew of "C" work credits, it's essentially a fresh start. At that point, any CLEPs/DSSTs award credit but no grades. Since TESC doesn't have a residency requirement, many people graduate without a GPA. The theory is, take one class, TESC issues you a GPA of 4.0 This works the other way too, if you were an A student but then tanked your 1-2 TESC classes, those A's are not used for quality points and you will have lost your 3something GPA.
    Anyone applying to grad school will, of course, have to provide official transcripts from the sources of those credits- so really, nothing is hidden, it all comes out in the application process. The schools I applied to all calculated a new GPA (in major, and cum), in other words, it didn't matter what TESC said my GPA was. In the case of University of Illinois, they even went back into my first associate degree since I didn't have 60 graded credits from TESC (I had 50something).

    I don't mean this disrespectfully to the OP applicant, but you underestimate your grad school's acuity.
     
  8. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    Fortunately Excelsior does (or at least did when it was USNY) so when I applied to two grad schools neither requested transcripts from the numerous (12 maybe) other schools that I had attended.
     

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