Removing credit

[homeschoolmom1]

Can you ask ACE to remove courses that you don't want to show up on your transcript? Can you ask TESU to remove a course after the ACE transcript was sent?

[mrpower]

I recently contacted ACE to remove a course that was not going to be used for my transcript. I opened a ticket with ACE, requested the removal and within a couple of days the course was removed. Not sure on the TESU side.

[jsd]

Out of curiosity, why would one want to do this?

[homeschoolmom1]

I could imagine a scenario in which you change direction of your degree. Let's say you initially did some classes in art appreciation, but then decide to pursue a rigorous coursework in math to fill your electives. For employment or graduate school admission, you may decide to get rid of your art class, not because it wasn't hard or important, but because it is superfluous and distracts from the focus of your degree.

[mrpower]

I had ACE remove the NFA Q0137 Hydraulic Calculations course after the expiration update.

[sanantone]

I wanted to remove my doctoral courses from my transcript, but TESU said they couldn't. They could only move them out of my degree plan.

[clep3705]

Removing courses from your academic record is very unlikely to occur. What's next, will we have students getting D and F grades removed from a transcript because they are distracting? Registrars view academic records as if they are carved in stone. It would undermine academic integrity to let students pick and choose what appears.

I suppose a person who has changed majors multiple times might be viewed as having problems picking a field and sticking with it. The way to fix a problem like that is not to have a transcript changed. It should be explained in the application or interview. Tell a story about being well rounded instead of indecisive. If the subject you're concerned about really is art, I don't see a problem. I'd spin that into a plus. Say that your art education makes you aware of how to make compelling presentations or pleasing product designs.

I've never heard of a case of a course that was taken being removed from a transcript. The only case I ever heard of something being removed from a transcript concerned a notation about academic suspension. Student was at school A and was suspended. School B let student enroll and added a notation to school B's transcript stating that student was on academic suspension at school A. Student was readmitted to school A and graduated. School B's new registrar removed the notation about academic suspension from school A on the grounds that it wasn't up to school B to track academic suspensions of other schools and that school A should and did take care of the history of suspension at their school.

[dfrecore]

I could imagine a scenario in which you change direction of your degree. Let's say you initially did some classes in art appreciation, but then decide to pursue a rigorous coursework in math to fill your electives. For employment or graduate school admission, you may decide to get rid of your art class, not because it wasn't hard or important, but because it is superfluous and distracts from the focus of your degree.

Then you should just say that you took art classes because you had an interest in it. Every degree has room to take things that are not "required" courses, and every degree (even math) makes you take things that are not related to it. I am getting my degree in business, but have art courses in there. And religion, history, and other stuff. Because I HAD to take them.

[cookderosa]

So, a reason someone MIGHT want to remove a class from a transcript is to "save" it and use it later in a more strategic way as part of a different degree or as "new" credit since graduation.

If you remove it from ACE, it won't get sent, thus won't be evaluated. The sticky parts here as I see them are (1) you risk not being able to get it back (2) you will always have to reveal your date- so the original date would be disclosed unless you redid the class and had a new date.

The chance of you getting it off your TESU transcript is -zero- for the exact reasons I outlined.

[KUJO]

So, a reason someone MIGHT want to remove a class from a transcript is to "save" it and use it later in a more strategic way as part of a different degree or as "new" credit since graduation.

If you remove it from ACE, it won't get sent, thus won't be evaluated. The sticky parts here as I see them are (1) you risk not being able to get it back (2) you will always have to reveal your date- so the original date would be disclosed unless you redid the class and had a new date.

The chance of you getting it off your TESU transcript is -zero- for the exact reasons I outlined.

I don't think that would work. I know it won't work at TESU. The "NEW" credits must be dated as earned after your degree has been awarded. Not sent to them after your degree was awarded.