transcripts being held hostage

[dfrecore]

"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.

With academic forgiveness, a school is has decided they aren't going to look at classes over a certain number of years old if they have bad grades. It doesn't change the transcript at all for the originating school.

It's similar to when a school only looks at your "last 60 graded credits" or "last 30 graded credits" or "credits in the core competency." So if you're trying to go to a school for your MBA (as an example), they don't care if you got a D in History when you were 18. They are bringing over classes and calculating their own GPA for purposes of admissions. It doesn't change what happened at the school you took the courses with the bad grades.

Even then, they still want to see the transcripts (usually). They can then choose to give academic forgiveness at their discretion.

EDIT POST:

Just looked at the link, the college still requires all of your transcripts before they will grant academic forgiveness, and then it's an all or nothing type of deal: either you can choose to have all of your courses looked at from 10+ years ago, or none of them. So if you got a few bad grades, but many good/decent ones, you're kind of screwed. Or if you had terrible grades 20 years ago, but went back to school 11 years ago and got all A's, you're screwed for certain.

I prefer an academic fresh start where they just drop your bad grades, but keep the good ones. Here's the one from WVNCC:

Academic Forgiveness: All F’s earned in College courses earned four or more years before admission to program are disregarded from the computation of the graduation grade point average. The “F” grades will not be deleted from the transcript.

By the way, this still has nothing to do with TESU. If you got academic forgiveness at one school and went there for a degree (let's say an AA), and then transferred to TESU, TESU will still want to see all of your transcripts from previous schools. They will not look at the school that gave you forgiveness and use THEIR grading system as a replacement for their own evaluation of transcripts.