Denied AACOMAS grade replacement

[ctran019]

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I've ran a search to no avail. Has anyone gotten their retake classes denied as a grade replacement for another class? Was it because the course description didn't match up closely enough? Did anyone get their replacement approved when they thought it wouldnt be? I've called AACOMAS, but they've told me to my best judgement. My best judgement might get me denied the grade replacement.

 

[WesternRedCedar]

Take a break from SDN, you're being paranoid.


Generally as long as the credits of the more recent course is greater than or equal to the older course, you are fine. For most freshman/sophmore level courses the contents are very similiar and they won't have any issues replacing them - which is why you seldom hear of being denied for content reasons.


The only realistic reason to be denied is if the most recent course is less credits, or if it is very blatant that they are not similiar courses (i.e. replacing ecology with genetics, or something silly like that).

Stop calling them so much and use your best judgment. Even if its wrong, you can't change anything now, you already took the class.

 

[ctran019]

Take a break from SDN, you're being paranoid.


Generally as long as the credits of the more recent course is greater than or equal to the older course, you are fine. For most freshman/sophmore level courses the contents are very similiar and they won't have any issues replacing them - which is why you seldom hear of being denied for content reasons.


The only realistic reason to be denied is if the most recent course is less credits, or if it is very blatant that they are not similiar courses (i.e. replacing ecology with genetics, or something silly like that).

Stop calling them so much and use your best judgment. Even if its wrong, you can't change anything now, you already took the class.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions cedar. I'm in Super panic mode about this whole process. Yeah I suppose I should just focus on my remakes. I've just been in shock since my aacomas gpa, doesn't reflect what I expected after remakes. But apparently they don't factor remakes until you submit the transcripts

 

[Dr Turkelton]

Do you guys know if you can replace an undergrad course with a grad course of the same name?

 

[NuttyEngDude]

Do you guys know if you can replace an undergrad course with a grad course of the same name?

No, and I believe this is specifically written in the AACOMAS instructions

 

[medickdb]

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions cedar. I'm in Super panic mode about this whole process. Yeah I suppose I should just focus on my remakes. I've just been in shock since my aacomas gpa, doesn't reflect what I expected after remakes. But apparently they don't factor remakes until you submit the transcripts

Just fill in the application to the best of your abilities. The only control you have over the primary application process is entering everything in correctly. You have no control over what AACOMAS does with what you provide. Of course, you can always ask questions, but try not to stress out about it too much. See what happens when everything is verified and ready to be sent. Don't worry. Everything will work out.

 

[WalSlave]

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions cedar. I'm in Super panic mode about this whole process. Yeah I suppose I should just focus on my remakes. I've just been in shock since my aacomas gpa, doesn't reflect what I expected after remakes. But apparently they don't factor remakes until you submit the transcripts

Are you sure you're putting it in correctly? Mine factored in the retakes just fine. It isn't your "official" GPA, but if you entered everything correctly, it will be the exact same.

 

[ctran019]

Are you sure you're putting it in correctly? Mine factored in the retakes just fine. It isn't your "official" GPA, but if you entered everything correctly, it will be the exact same.

I'm certain I input them correctly. I tried changing the classification of the retake classes to "none" as opposed to "last repeat XX" and still ended up with the same GPA. This makes me believe that the official GPA will change drastically for me after I submit transcripts since I've retaken 7+ classes with all A's, not to mention my GPA is ridiculously lower than my undergraduate c/sGPA.

 

[WalSlave]

I'm certain I input them correctly. I tried changing the classification of the retake classes to "none" as opposed to "last repeat XX" and still ended up with the same GPA. This makes me believe that the official GPA will change drastically for me after I submit transcripts since I've retaken 7+ classes with all A's.

Keep in mind changing a "last repeat XX" to "none" will not do anything. AACOMAS simply omits the credits/gpa points from courses you mark as "repeat" from its calculations. The only reason you mark things as "last repeat" is so that a human at AACOMAS can verify that the classes you marked "repeat" are being fairly omitted from your calculations. I'm sorry if that is confusing, let me know if it isn't clear.

I know this may seem like a dumb question, but you are marking each original class as "Repeat XX" right?

 

[ctran019]

Keep in mind changing a "last repeat XX" to "none" will not do anything. AACOMAS simply omits the credits/gpa points from courses you mark as "repeat" from its calculations. The only reason you mark things as "last repeat" is so that a human at AACOMAS can verify that the classes you marked "repeat" are being fairly omitted from your calculations. I'm sorry if that is confusing, let me know if it isn't clear.

I know this may seem like a dumb question, but you are marking each original class as "Repeat XX" right?

Its not a dumb question. If I repeated a class multiple times, I designated my last retake of it it with "Last repeat 01" The original class(es) I marked with "Repeat 01"

I did a manual calculation of my grades using an AMCAS spreadsheet on this site and just input only the final retakes with classes I didn't have to retake and had a significantly higher GPA than the ACCOMAS one.