03-07-2024, 11:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2024, 11:23 AM by Livia_Drusila.)
(03-07-2024, 11:09 AM)jch Wrote: Your GPA does not carry over between institutions. At any new institution you go to, you'll receive a new institutional GPA for the courses taken there. Transfer credits will be treated as credit received/passed as long as you meet the minimum grade required, and will not be included in the calculation.
There is something called overall or cumulative GPA, which does include everything at all institutions. It's very rarely, if ever, needed - most people just want institutional GPA from the last place you attended/where your degrees were granted.
There are minimal options for you to replace college credits you passed with less-than-great grades. Doing so may not be practical or worthwhile. Typically, you can't replace existing graded credits with ACE credit or other alt-credit types. Also, many institutions may not allow you to take or receive credit/acknowledgement for a course if you've already received credit for it somewhere.
Oh, ok! Great to know. This means that the grades from third parties like Sophia wouldn't matter either, only the grades for the 30 credits taken at UMPI?
And also, they just wrote me telling me of their requirements for enrollment. They need my high school diploma and university education from Argentina to be translated and sent by an evaluation service. I've been looking this up and it seems extremely expensive and just a bummer... I asked my mom to get ahold of my high school diploma in person (they don't have a website or anything, it's a very basic public school), maybe she can mail it to me. It's silly because FSU only asked for the plain transcripts, no fancy evaluations or anything. I just read on reddit that someone spent like $600 on WES and it doesn't seem fair, that's like six months worth of Sophia! I'll ask them if they have a waiver. And if they don't, are there any other options you can point me to in my situation? (I don't care much about the major at this point.) Or budget friendly translation/evaluation services that you recommend? Thanks!