Penn Foster to TESC

[Harpda]

Just wondering if TESC assigns Penn Foster a letter grade or pass/fail.

I'm taking Strategic Business Management with Penn Foster now and need to consider how it will be counted when I apply it to TESC BSBA.

[ironheadjack]

Any course transferred into TESC won't have a grade attached to it, only CR for credit.

You only have an institutional GPA for courses taken from TESC.

[Harpda]

Any course transferred into TESC won't have a grade attached to it, only CR for credit.

You only have an institutional GPA for courses taken from TESC.

Hmmm that's strange. I just received my academic evaluation and it has letter grades from the Community College that I attended. So from my understanding these will not be applied to my TESC GPA but when I continue on towards my Masters, they will calculate applicable courses into my GPA for grad school admission. This is what I am concerned about.

[ironheadjack]

Grad schools will determine a cumulative GPA from all institutions attended. But your institutional(TESC) GPA is determined by which courses you take at TESC. If you transfer all of your credits into TESC you won't have a GPA from TESC.


My CC grades are also listed on my evaluation but do not factor into your GPA, but my PF grades aren't on my eval. And on top of the evaluation where it lists "colleges attended" Penn Foster is not included on that list. I assume it isn't listed because PF grades come in with a pass/fail score on an ACE transcript.

Since you attended PF you will have to list it on your grad. school application and most likely send in an official transcript, so grad schools most likely will factor it into your cumulative GPA.

[IrishJohn]

I was sweatin' bullets over my long sordid path at the local community college because I thought I had a 1.3 GPA mainly for courses I hadn't withdrawn from in time to avoid an F. Courses I actually completed put me somewhere in the 3.0 range. I'm currently applying to transfer to the University of Nebraska-Kearney and they have a minimum GPA requirement of 3.25. Even though I have a 4.0 from TESC and likewise from the grad courses I've recently completed at APU, I thought my community college days might sink me. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that I had misremembered my GPA from there, which was overall a 2.78. Not bad considering the number of Fs for dropped courses over the years!

[Prloko]

I was sweatin' bullets over my long sordid path at the local community college because I thought I had a 1.3 GPA mainly for courses I hadn't withdrawn from in time to avoid an F. Courses I actually completed put me somewhere in the 3.0 range. I'm currently applying to transfer to the University of Nebraska-Kearney and they have a minimum GPA requirement of 3.25. Even though I have a 4.0 from TESC and likewise from the grad courses I've recently completed at APU, I thought my community college days might sink me. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that I had misremembered my GPA from there, which was overall a 2.78. Not bad considering the number of Fs for dropped courses over the years!

Do you think an F from 10 years ago still holds weight? I received an F a long time ago and was wondering how a school would view it, being that it was from a much younger and different version of me.

[Harpda]

I also got an F from about 15 years ago...it did not show up on my TESC transcript.

Do you think an F from 10 years ago still holds weight? I received an F a long time ago and was wondering how a school would view it, being that it was from a much younger and different version of me.