Advice needed for Best Avenue

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To get a GPA somewhere, you have to take courses there. If you get your BA at TESU, you will only be required to take a single course - the Capstone. So that one course will constitute your entire GPA at TESU.

Whatever you took previously, that will be your GPA at that particular school.

Grad schools usually look at all of your transcripts, and calculate a combined GPA themselves - although they may have a weighted program, where they look at courses in your major differently than GE and other courses. So, they might say you need a combined GPA of X, and then you also need a "Major" GPA of Y. Or they may only look at the last 30 or 60 graded credits.

If your previous GPA is not good, then you can try to make it better by looking at the grade replacement policy at the school you took the original courses.

Anything you take as a course that is ACE-recommended is not going to have a grade - Straighterline, Study.com, Saylor, TEEX, Ed4Credit, CLEP, DSST, etc. So those won't help (or hurt) your GPA.

Your best bet, if you know for certain that you want to get into a Masters program, is to work backwards from there. Look at a couple of programs you want to get into, see what their requirements are, and then go about getting those requirements. If they want 60 graded credits, you're going to need 60 graded credits. If they want a 3.0 GPA, then you need to build that into your plan.

Then, once you know what you need, you can mix and match - non-graded credits to complete as many requirements as possible, with some graded courses at a 4-yr or CC thrown in. However you need to build it.