transcripts being held hostage

[dfrecore]

I have similar concerns for myself. I don't owe any money to anyone but 15 years ago I enrolled in a community college and I never went to any of the classes. I did not even do the right thing and withdraw from the classes. I received nothing but failing grades and I was put on academic probation.

That was 15 years ago. Now, I plan on getting a degree from TESU. I don't have any credits to salvage from the past because they are all failing grades. Why should I even submit a transcript to TESU? Will this possibly hurt me when I try to graduate from TESU? I know the safe answer is to just submit my transcripts even if they are bad. But am I really taking a risk by not submitting transcripts that are that old that I don't even intended to get credit from? COSC told me that I don't have to submit them but it sounds like TESU is more strict.

You might want to order a transcript for yourself, just to see what they say. When I went to college, even if I didn't withdraw from a course, I didn't always get an F - I got an I (incomplete) for some, which did not give me a GPA. If a school sees that you didn't go to a single class for an entire semester, they may have given you something like that, or withdrawn you for the entire semester, and you may have no GPA there at all.

If you do have a GPA of 0.0, then you may have a problem, but you can figure that out after you know for certain what you have. They may be willing to change it to all I's or something (whatever they give there), or have some other way to help you.

You can also ask TESU what would happen in that situation, if you have an old transcript with all F's. They may have some sort of forgiveness program or something.

I know when I transferred all my credits to WVNCC, they had a policy of not counting bad grades older than a certain number of years old. TESU may do that or something like it, who knows.