Change Grade or Repeat class, how does it look on a transcript

[videogamesrock]

Hi I was wondering how a change grade or repeat class looks on a transcript? Do both attempts show?

[alissaroot]

I don't know about changed grades, but repeating a class will usually show both attempts for specific college transcripts.

CLEP transcripts have an option where you can elect to have only passing scores sent.

[Jonathan Whatley]

It depends on the policies of your school, which you'll have to check out with your school.

In general, however, you can expect that both attempts at a class will show. Sometimes a school will only count the better attempt toward their calculation of your GPA, or only count the second one. Sometimes they'll average them out (i.e., count both).

If you apply later on to a graduate or professional school, that school may have its own rules for recording these which may be different from your present school's.

[videogamesrock]

It depends on the policies of your school, which you'll have to check out with your school.

In general, however, you can expect that both attempts at a class will show. Sometimes a school will only count the better attempt toward their calculation of your GPA, or only count the second one. Sometimes they'll average them out (i.e., count both).

If you apply later on to a graduate or professional school, that school may have its own rules for recording these which may be different from your present school's.

Unfortunately checking with the school is not a good option. I can literally speak to 10 different people and receive 10 different answers. For the school of nursing they allow Biology to be taken only 2 times in a lifetime and I cannot screw this up.

Will the transcript show the credits as attempted and earned twice?

[Jonathan Whatley]

The best people to ask are probably at the office that maintains the transcript. Almost everywhere, this is the Registrar's Office.

For the school of nursing they allow Biology to be taken only 2 times in a lifetime and I cannot screw this up.

If they had this rule but erased past attempts from their records, wouldn't it be a fairly useless rule? This strongly suggests that they don't erase attempts from the transcript,

Will the transcript show the credits as attempted and earned twice?

that the transcript will show the credits as attempted twice. Now, you won't really "earn" credit in the same course like general biology twice because the credit will "overlap;" only one attempts will count towards your total of ~120 semester hours required for a bachelor's degree, etc.

Sometimes a course has the same number or title but is "repeatable" because the content doesn't overlap, it's really a separate course each time. This could apply to something like a BIO 499 Special Topics in Biology. This won't be the case for a course that repeats about the same content coverage each term or year, like a standard BIO 101 General Biology.