The Importance of a GPA for grad school

[SweetSecret]

I really wish I understood better how all of the grades get calculated into GPA for graduate applications too. I have a few classes, that I just totally failed at. One was my first math course out of high school, which was a hybrid and I just totally hated math and lost interest in going to... because I hate math. The second was a 7am course (upper level I believe), that the teacher kept talking like a drone, and with working three jobs I just couldn't seem to stay awake. My computer hard drive crashed the last week of class, and I lost weeks of work and wasn't able to turn in my final project, so I ended up with an "F". I probably could have asked for an extension but I have a feeling he wouldn't have granted me one. I'm not really sure how these are going to get calculated into my graduate degree application, along with a few classes I withdrew from simply from exhaustion of working three jobs before I started just traveling on the road for work. College is so much easier when you can do it on your own time frame, and these TECEPS and other ways of earning credit are a huge blessing! If anyone knows how F and Withdraws calculate, please let us know... these would have all been before transferring to TESU. The math course was 15 years ago and the withdraw was about 9 years ago. Right now I don't even have a GPA with TESU because I've just completed TECEPs, so my first grade will come from when my Capstone ends this term, which will likely be a B+/A-.