TESU, GPA, & transcripts

[happydayruth]

Hello,

Needing some advice: by the time I finish my degree, I will have completed two TESU courses and my GPA *should* remain 4.0 (not trying to count my chickens before they hatch, but my current course is going well so far). My question is about a course I am transferring in from another university in which I earned a B. I know it will not affect my TESU GPA, but I am wondering if grad schools down the road who look at all my transcripts will care about the fact that I had one B from another school. My alternative is to not transfer the course and take another TECEP instead (it's an elective).

Advice for long-term planning?

Thanks!

[Leherself]

Well, there's two parts to this.

One, getting a single B grade in your undergrad is hardly a tragedy. It won't affect your TESU GPA, but even if it did, you still wouldn't be getting funny looks from admissions committees for it.

Two, the schools that really, really care about GPA are going to want original transcripts from every college or university you've ever attended anyway, and they'll see that grade regardless of whether or not you sent it to TESU. Schools that don't care about GPA as much will just want your graduating transcript (to prove that you've got a degree, and so they can see what kind of course work you've completed in the past), in which case you'd have nothing to worry about anyway.

If anything, the thing that might give you trouble with some grad schools would just be having a very small number of graded credits overall, but even that's fairly unlikely. If you've gotten nothing but As in the last few courses of a Bachelor's degree (mostly upper division, I'd assume?) I'm sure you'll be fine.

[happydayruth]

Well, there's two parts to this.

One, getting a single B grade in your undergrad is hardly a tragedy. It won't affect your TESU GPA, but even if it did, you still wouldn't be getting funny looks from admissions committees for it.

Two, the schools that really, really care about GPA are going to want original transcripts from every college or university you've ever attended anyway, and they'll see that grade regardless of whether or not you sent it to TESU. Schools that don't care about GPA as much will just want your graduating transcript (to prove that you've got a degree, and so they can see what kind of course work you've completed in the past), in which case you'd have nothing to worry about anyway.

If anything, the thing that might give you trouble with some grad schools would just be having a very small number of graded credits overall, but even that's fairly unlikely. If you've gotten nothing but As in the last few courses of a Bachelor's degree (mostly upper division, I'd assume?) I'm sure you'll be fine.

Thank you! This is very helpful!