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I learned today that my easy road to completion of a Liberal Studies degree from TESC (3 CLEPS left) comes complete with NO GPA on my transcript!!! LOL!
If I stay with EC, I need many more credits (18 UL) and would graduate with a 2.45 or so GPA (nothing to brag about).
I really just want the degree. There is no way to make my college career (including the DL and test out portions) look better than it is. I'd prefer to be honest about how I earned my degree and hope that my resume, GRE or GMAT, references, essays, etc will do the talking to potential grad schools (probably as cheapo a RA MBA I can find).
I realize there will be many views on this but any input is appreciated. As loose as I am about things, it just feels toooo weird to get a degree with NO GPA!! Has anyone else graduated TESC with no GPA and how has it impacted your further education or career?
Oy vay, if it's not one thing, it's another!!
Best to all,
Mike
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started Excelsior 11/08
BA Lib Studies from TESC completed 10/09:
Transferred in 42 from B&M school.
9 credits from ISM Purchasing certification.
CLEP Humanities 11/08 (64)
CLEP A&I Lit. 11/08 (70)
CLEP Soc. Sci. & History 12/08 (65)
CLEP Natl Science 1/09 (51) :p
Penn Foster Info Lit 2/09
Psych GRE 4/09 Score 540, 26th %, 0 credits :mad:
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Interesting. Maybe they'll give you a toaster as a parting gift?
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Well, I haven't graduated yet, but I do have my last test schedule on Friday and THEN I will be graduating with no GPA. I don't think it will affect my career... I had an interview a month or so ago and they asked about my degree and anticipated graduation, but there was no question about GPA!
The one thing I'm concerned about is possibly going to grad school. I wasn't really planning on it when I started my degree, but now that I'm close to finishing, I may want to continue. However, I just found out that someone one these forums is going to grad school with no GPA! So... it doesn't seem like it would be that much of a hindrance. (At least, I sure hope not!)
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mongoose65 Wrote:I learned today that my easy road to completion of a Liberal Studies degree from TESC (3 CLEPS left) comes complete with NO GPA on my transcript!!! LOL!
If I stay with EC, I need many more credits (18 UL) and would graduate with a 2.45 or so GPA (nothing to brag about).
I really just want the degree. There is no way to make my college career (including the DL and test out portions) look better than it is. I'd prefer to be honest about how I earned my degree and hope that my resume, GRE or GMAT, references, essays, etc will do the talking to potential grad schools (probably as cheapo a RA MBA I can find).
I realize there will be many views on this but any input is appreciated. As loose as I am about things, it just feels toooo weird to get a degree with NO GPA!! Has anyone else graduated TESC with no GPA and how has it impacted your further education or career?
Oy vay, if it's not one thing, it's another!!
Best to all,
Mike >>
My first degree, the one that made my career, was in a B&M school complete with a GPA. No one has ever asked what it was. <shrug>
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cookderosa Wrote:My first degree, the one that made my career, was in a B&M school complete with a GPA. No one has ever asked what it was. <shrug> What was it?
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Ruddigore Wrote:What was it? >>
Thanks Ruddigore! 
It was 3.2 but I meant no one asked about it for a job LOL
(good thing too!)
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Do you think a 3.2 is bad ?
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My official TESC GPA was/is 4.0, thanks to my one Guided Study Managerial Communications class. The other 48 recent credits were all CLEP/DSST/TECEP exams. My approx 2.9 GPA from old B&M credits does not appear on my official transcript. My future daughter-in-law, who has tunnel vision while attending B&M only, is driven crazy by this.
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mongoose65 Wrote:I learned today that my easy road to completion of a Liberal Studies degree from TESC (3 CLEPS left) comes complete with NO GPA on my transcript!!! LOL!
If I stay with EC, I need many more credits (18 UL) and would graduate with a 2.45 or so GPA (nothing to brag about).
I really just want the degree. There is no way to make my college career (including the DL and test out portions) look better than it is. I'd prefer to be honest about how I earned my degree and hope that my resume, GRE or GMAT, references, essays, etc will do the talking to potential grad schools (probably as cheapo a RA MBA I can find).
I realize there will be many views on this but any input is appreciated. As loose as I am about things, it just feels toooo weird to get a degree with NO GPA!! Has anyone else graduated TESC with no GPA and how has it impacted your further education or career?
Oy vay, if it's not one thing, it's another!!
Best to all,
Mike
Hi Mike,
Maybe I missed something, but how do you come up with a 2.45 GPA at EC taking the extra classes, but with no GPA at TESC?
For a "Cheapo" Grad school, try TUIU and see if they'll take your non-GPA degree. That's the school I'm looking at enrolling in after I finish my BS.
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gregjohnson Wrote:My future daughter-in-law, who has tunnel vision while attending B&M only, is driven crazy by this. Why is that? The B&M institutions I've attended also didn't recognize letter grades from other institutions, it only listed them as transfer credit...
I m edumakated thanx to distunce lerning.
MEd, Texas A&M University, 2018
MBA, University of North Dakota, 2014
MS, University of Illinois Springfield, 2010
BSBA, Thomas Edison State University, 2008
AS / AAS, Tidewater Community College, 2004
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