How Grad Schools view your GPA (including transferred credits)

[bjcheung77]

@SchlemkoTB, Each institution you have attended will have their own GPA shown on provided transcripts. When you transfer to another institution, you send your transcripts to that institution. The same goes when you apply to graduate school, you send all previous transcripts of institutions you have attended. In the event that you have alternative credits, you do the same, send it through Credly or Parchment... Focus on GPA on graded courses, lesser on Alternative Credit options.

You're going to look at your own energy/time to decide what your course of action is, some members on the board will prompt you it's easiest to just get a 'pass', so anything over 70% will work. I like to do things a little differently, for ACE/NCCRS credits, even though 70% is a pass, I try to get past 90 in case I apply to a semi or more competitive graduate school. Really, a pass is a pass, it's going to take extra energy, money, time invested if you want a better grade in each...

Here's the thing, when I did my Alternative Credit and started with StraighterLine, I had 23 courses over 90%, 5 at 80%+, 5 at 76%+ and 1 fail - yes, that darn intro to stats course was at 65% (before that I took ALEKS Stats, all 3 of them and it was stuck at 63%, I spent an extra month and nearly fried my brain and still couldn't get past it as it turned out to be Calculus based vs Algebra based), I finally took SL Business Stats and ended with 85% as it's Algebra based...

What I am trying to get at is, it's an 80 vs 20 out there for grad school, 80% don't really care what your alternative credits are like, the other 20% are the Ivy League or Private schools that are much more competitive, they would look at your application in all angles, if you have a strong application in everything else, the GPA wouldn't be much of an issue at all... Again, it's your energy/money/time investment, decide for yourself which institution you want to end up with.