Hello Hello. The situation. Student signs up with College A, does 15 credits, gets horrible GPA. 2.5 ish. Student transfers into College B, does 30 credits, gets good GPA. 4.0. While student was in College B, student was doing credits outside as non-degree seeking, managed to clock up 30 credits, mostly As and Bs. Student wants to transfer into College C. (Competitive B&M School) College C only accepts a maximum of 60 credit hours for transfer. Can student only sent in transcripts from College B and non-degree seeking credits? Ignoring credits from College A. :bandit: I am teh student ! :mischievous::mischievous::mischievous:
Answer: Student is screwed! Your GPA at the new institution might start over, and you have to supply college A transcript as well. It happened to me when I applied to Troy University, and they asked me about Indiana University's transcript. All my courses at Indiana University were incompleted, and I did not mention anything about it in Troy University's application.
*sigh* I thought so too. Its not so much as my GPA would start over, I'm fine with that. I just want to get rid of the horrid first 20 credits I took 10 years ago. I'm just afraid it might affect my chances of going into a good graduate school.
According to my calculations* you have an average 3.5 grade average. I would be happy with that average. Why not find a school where you only need to take 30 units in residence. Personally I would transfer all credits to a big 3 school (to prevent the cost of replacing the first 15 credits), earn a BS, and then go get a masters. *[(15 x 2.)5 +( 30 x 4) + (30 x 3.5)]/75 = 3.5
I need a GPA of 3.75 to be considered/stand a chance. Intending to apply into Oxbridge or U of London for their 1 year Masters program on campus. How does graduate schools in US calculate GPAs? (schools in UK just say a first class or 2.1 degree, but some are programs are more precise, they need a GPA score of 3.75 and above etc) They add all the 120 credits? Or the last 60 credits that was done at the graduating school? Might just finish up where I am, maintain that 4.0 GPA. Transcript will show something like 15 credits from college A 30 Misc credits from random places 75 credits from college B with GPA from college B.
When I was looking at literally about 100 graduate programs, most wanted a minimum cumulative GPA based in every college attended. Some will only look at the last 60 credit hours, but these usually aren't the most competitive colleges. I think I even saw one that looks at the last 30 credit hours and another that looked at only upper-level/upper-division credits. The PhD in Criminal Justice program at Texas State University did not want transcripts from 2-year colleges. I tested out of a lot of courses toward the end of my bachelor's degree program. When I asked Angelo State University how they would calculate the last 60 credits, they said they would start with my last graded course and work back from there. The pass/fail tests were not included when counting the last 60 credits.
The "competitive B&M school" (C) should come AFTER you earn an undergrad somewhere else. You can turn things WAY around by using a school like TESC to send everything to- the GPA won't come from transfer credit, only credit you complete with them in-house. Use 1 year at TESC to take CLASSES (I know, gasp) instead of testing out - especially in your major. TESC will allow you the option of cherry picking what classes to keep and which to dump off your TESC transcript. I'd dump 100% of the college A classes. So, when you applied to grad school you'd have: BA degree from TESC (includes all credit from college B & C plus courses taken at TESC) 1 transcript from college A that may or may not come up.
The problem that when the OP applies for graduate school, may require all the transcript that from colleges had attended. For my case, SMU and Georgetown asked me for the transcripted from incomplete colleges.
I get that, but I don't think thats NEARLY the problem when the OP has all the recent transcripts rolled into a degree, and then there is just a single transcript from over a decade ago. I think anyone can use a line or two in their essay to explain away youthful folly. To have 3 unfinished degrees looks like the youthful folly is not so long in the past.
If i only submitted transcripts from College B and the (misc) credits, without submitting credits from College A, how would College C find out. :O !