help! unusual problem w/ gpa discrepancy

[dds72128]

hi, i would really like to get some feedback on this problem which i've discovered a few days ago...

i'm a reapplicant, and my gpa's were verified just a few days ago. i realized that there is a discrepancy btw. my gpa from 2007 and this year. i haven't taken any additional course since i last applied in 2007, and have double-checked everything in both applications--all my coursework remain identical, including the course categorizations.

so i called aadsas, and the manager told me they have archived all the 2007 apps and cannot retrieve any info. for me. unless i can identify a specific difference in the application, there's nothing they can do.

the problem is, the new gpa's are not in my favor (my bcp, science, and overall gpa's went down by 0.2 and non-science went up by 0.1), and i'm afraid that when the schools compare my applications, they'll think that i have done worse since 2007, when in reality, i haven't taken any course at all and nothing has changed academically.

has anyone ever encountered something like this? i would really appreciate any input and/or suggestion.

thanks in advance!

 

[1992Corolla]

AADSAS should work with you more. Call them again and BUG them to no end until they figure it out. I doubt it is impossible for them to go look at archived data...the guy was probably LAZY.

 

[DMDreaming]

Has AADSAS changed the classification of some of your classes or their "formula" for calculating grades since last year? This could account for a discrepancy.

 

[purplemonkey]

This happened to me, too. I noticed my gpa was different from last year. It took awhile for me to find it, but they had changed an other-science to non-science. Once I told them about it, it took about 5 days to fix. Fortunately, that was before they mailed out my app.

If you are not already, try looking at your coursework through the Print dropdown, it shows you where AADSAS made changes in grades and credits, the difference could be in there. Do you have a printout of your coursework from AADSAS from last year? If so, maybe have someone else check it against this year's, maybe a fresh pair of eyes could find the difference.

 

[onamission]

hi, i would really like to get some feedback on this problem which i've discovered a few days ago...

i'm a reapplicant, and my gpa's were verified just a few days ago. i realized that there is a discrepancy btw. my gpa from 2007 and this year. i haven't taken any additional course since i last applied in 2007, and have double-checked everything in both applications--all my coursework remain identical, including the course categorizations.

so i called aadsas, and the manager told me they have archived all the 2007 apps and cannot retrieve any info. for me. unless i can identify a specific difference in the application, there's nothing they can do.

the problem is, the new gpa's are not in my favor (my bcp, science, and overall gpa's went down by 0.2 and non-science went up by 0.1), and i'm afraid that when the schools compare my applications, they'll think that i have done worse since 2007, when in reality, i haven't taken any course at all and nothing has changed academically.

has anyone ever encountered something like this? i would really appreciate any input and/or suggestion.

thanks in advance!

Mine are completely F'd up! 😡 I'm a non-traditional reapplicant. My grades from 20 years ago are very low, but since going back to school I'm maintaining a 4.0 GPA. They calculated my GPA with quality points to be exactly the same as my GPA without quality points. You can see where they just dropped every +/- on the verified print out. And yes, they changed a few of the course's catagories, but very inconsistantly. Some computer classes are non-science now but others aren't. They even changed a course from the science/math department to a non-science. And here's the kicker, how in the world could my overall GPA go DOWN by 0.12 when all the classes I've added since last year are a 4.0? Mathematically impossible!

Fortunately I saved all my copies from last year and my AADSAS rep was very helpful. He took all the copies I faxed him to his manager who agreed something's very messed up. We have a conference call scheduled with the director on Monday afternoon to get it straightened out. Hopefully the director will be reasonable like the other two people I've dealt with. I'm still ticked off though because there are quite a few of people who submitted after me, had their app kicked back for mistakes, resubmitted and got verified correctly before me!! So much for AADSAS "evening" the playing field!!

Oh yeah, I also found a big contradiction in the GPA calculation directions on pg 13. Take a look at what they state is included in the science GPA & the non-science GPA. They contradict each other and it says that all the other science courses are included in the non-science GPA. The manager was blown away when I pointed that out! Hopefully it's only a typo, but who knows if the knuckleheads that are actually verifying the grades are following these directions!

 

[dds72128]

thank you so much for all of your suggestions! i called addsas again but they really have a strict policy against access to past apps, so i couldn't identify the specific problems, and i re-checked my coursework another 2-3x... everything is definitely identical btw. the 2007 and 2008 apps.

so the customer service manager has suggested that i write to each school about this situation, and list the gpas from 2007 and 2008.

has anyone ever written to individual schools regarding gpa discrepancy or any problem in general? how would that be perceived? would the schools think that i am incapable of solving this problem by myself (which is true i guess...) and that writing to them is pointless?