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Realize that this issue may have been covered already, but I cannot seem to locate the answer.
From what I understand, at Thomas Edison, all transfer credits are moved over as blank credits and the only GPA presented on your transcript is whatever classes youve taken at Thomas Edison.
But at Excelsior, they include your transfer credit grades and they are counted in your final GPA.
Is this information correct ?
(Thanks in advance)
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alldet11111 Wrote:Realize that this issue may have been covered already, but I cannot seem to locate the answer.
From what I understand, at Thomas Edison, all transfer credits are moved over as blank credits and the only GPA presented on your transcript is whatever classes youve taken at Thomas Edison.
But at Excelsior, they include your transfer credit grades and they are counted in your final GPA.
Is this information correct ?
(Thanks in advance)
Since very few of us have both Excelsior and TESC transcripts.
Here is what Excelsior does,
Your previous college courses are transcribed as the letter grade attained and applied to your EC GPA
Your CLEPs are Pass fail
Certain DSST exams have letter grade which is assigned to your GPA
At the end of your transcript it lists on mine
GPA 4.0
GPA at Excelsior 4.0
Since all my graded courses transferred in as A's and the courses I took at Excelsior were also A's. As far as I know your GPA is your average over all your courses regardless of source.
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alldet11111 Wrote:Realize that this issue may have been covered already, but I cannot seem to locate the answer.
From what I understand, at Thomas Edison, all transfer credits are moved over as blank credits and the only GPA presented on your transcript is whatever classes youve taken at Thomas Edison.
But at Excelsior, they include your transfer credit grades and they are counted in your final GPA.
Is this information correct ?
(Thanks in advance)
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alldet11111 Wrote:Realize that this issue may have been covered already, but I cannot seem to locate the answer.
From what I understand, at Thomas Edison, all transfer credits are moved over as blank credits and the only GPA presented on your transcript is whatever classes youve taken at Thomas Edison.
But at Excelsior, they include your transfer credit grades and they are counted in your final GPA.
Is this information correct ?
(Thanks in advance)
Letter grades from other colleges will be transferred in. You have two GPA's basically at TESC: you have your overall GPA and your institutional GPA. Your institutional GPA are the courses you have taken at TESC. Anything from Straighterline or ACE/NCCRS will not come up as a letter grade and will only be deemed as credit. Remember in your area of study you need at least a "C" in the course; however, you can transfer in a "D" as long as it is not in your area of study. I know you probably want the highest GPA shown on your transcripts but don't worry about it, study hard and just get good grades. Hope this answered your question.
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smf6824 Wrote:Letter grades from other colleges will be transferred in. You have two GPA's basically at TESC: you have your overall GPA and your institutional GPA. Your institutional GPA are the courses you have taken at TESC. Anything from Straighterline or ACE/NCCRS will not come up as a letter grade and will only be deemed as credit. Remember in your area of study you need at least a "C" in the course; however, you can transfer in a "D" as long as it is not in your area of study. I know you probably want the highest GPA shown on your transcripts but don't worry about it, study hard and just get good grades. Hope this answered your question.
TESC does not transfer GPAs. The GPA they calculate on your evaluation using transfer credits is just for internal quality control purposes. That GPA will not end up on the TESC transcript. Only grades for TESC courses will end up on your transcript.
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Dittoing everyone else ^^ Also, transfer credits are shown as "CR" on a TESC transcript; credits from TESC are show with letter grades.
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smf6824 Wrote:Letter grades from other colleges will be transferred in. You have two GPA's basically at TESC: you have your overall GPA and your institutional GPA. Your institutional GPA are the courses you have taken at TESC. Anything from Straighterline or ACE/NCCRS will not come up as a letter grade and will only be deemed as credit. Remember in your area of study you need at least a "C" in the course; however, you can transfer in a "D" as long as it is not in your area of study. I know you probably want the highest GPA shown on your transcripts but don't worry about it, study hard and just get good grades. Hope this answered your question.
This is worded in a way that suggests TESC ISSUES two GPAs and they don't. They issue one GPA, derived from your TESC courses. The second GPA isn't calculated, it just exists. If you apply to grad school at some point, a potential grad school will calculate a GPA based on your TESC + everything else, so you do technically have 2 GPAs, but only 1 TESC GPA will be given.
*example*
Let's say you attended ABC Community College 1 semester and flunked all 4 classes (12 credits) "F" grades. (oops)
Several years later you enrolled at TESC. You submit your ABC transcript, those grades don't come over- neither does the credit- it's just nothing. So, at TESC you earn credit and get a 3.7 GPA (yeah!).
Fast forward several more years. You apply to grad school. Grad school wants your GPA on the admissions application. You will write 3.7 (which is correct) They will request all transcripts, at which time you submit the TESC 3.7 GPA degree transcript and your ABC transcript. Your grad school will internally do the math, and calculate that you actually have 3.36 (I used an online GPA calculator to do the math).
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This brings up a question I've had for awhile. What happens if you fail the one course you take at TESC, but end up testing out of that same course to complete your degree. Would your GPA at TESC literally be a 0.00? Would they allow you to graduate like this?
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defscarlett Wrote:This brings up a question I've had for awhile. What happens if you fail the one course you take at TESC, but end up testing out of that same course to complete your degree. Would your GPA at TESC literally be a 0.00? Would they allow you to graduate like this?
yes!
I've always wondered about rolling the dice and putting all your eggs in one basket so to speak.
If you fail the capstone, you'd have to earn 21 new credits at an "A" to pull yourself up to a 3.5 or 52 credits at an "A-" to get there.
If you've never written APA style, it's a big risk in my opinion, to have your "first time" be the capstone class. I know people have pulled it off, and I'm not saying anyone is going to "fail" just because its their first time, but if writing isn't your strength, it's worth considering one or two other classes in there to dilute the potential for catastrophe. JMO
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sanantone Wrote:TESC does not transfer GPAs. The GPA they calculate on your evaluation using transfer credits is just for internal quality control purposes. That GPA will not end up on the TESC transcript. Only grades for TESC courses will end up on your transcript.
Ok... I did not phrase my answer the best possible way and I thank those for clarifying my mistake, but this is basically what I was trying to allude to. I was trying to show that letter grades do transfer over for purposes of fulfilling GPA requirements for things such as the area of study in which you need at least a "C" in and that other things such as ACE approved credit does not transfer as a letter grade, but just a credit. This is where the internal quality control aspect comes in. Sorry if I misread the question and if my answer misguided anyone. So yes letter grades do transfer in; however, they will not show up on your final GPA on your transcript. Only your institutional GPA will show up there.
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