transcripts being held hostage

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Unfortunately, no one will "scrub" your record. And, even if you don't use financial aid, most schools still require you to send ALL transcripts. So you actually, probably need to deal with this. Either you can contact the school and see if they do grade replacement (you retake the courses there, and they only count the better grade). Or you take different courses at other schools that give grades, until you get your GPA up to a reasonable one. That, unfortunately, is hard to do - for every F, you'd need an A, just to get a 2.0.

I too had bad grades from my first college, a 1.9 GPA. I ended up going to a few more schools over the years, and got good enough GPA's to make up for the bad grades - but that's a LOT of classes I took to get to that point.

Others here may have some additional advice for you.

"Scrub" is the wrong word for me to pick. Here in Texas where I live they actually do have an "Academic Forgiveness" policy. https://www1.dcccd.edu/catalog/GeneralIn...m?loc=econ They will ignore credits over 10 years old if the student chooses to do so. Maybe it is possible for me to take just 1 Class and do well and use that as my GPA. It might bring up the odd scenario of TESU seeing my old failed classes yet my GPA will be based on just the one class being taken. This is an odd scenario. So nothing is getting "scrubbed" or erased on my record here in Texas. The local colleges will simply ignore the old classes and recalculate my GPA based on any new classes that I take. How will TESU react to that? I will need to find out.