Multiple Colleges

[Eric552]

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Ok, so here is my dirty laundry. Straight out of high school in 2002, I enrolled into a college and failed miserably. I worked in the real world for a couple years and started back at a new college and have been doing reasonably well. I've been keeping my old college in the back of my head, but knowing that I must face, and deal with it sometime before applying. So, today I took the trip there and got an unofficial transcript, and now here are my questions.


At first glance, I was horrified. Its amazing how different I am now. I am not even the same person. I literally failed math 101 twice in a row. I just had no drive and that's pretty shameful. I had just stopped going to class in the middle of the 2nd quarter and didn't withdraw, which left me with an amazing 1.08GPA. The good news is, this only consisted of 7 courses.

Now, when two transcripts are submitted to aacomas, are the GPA's just averaged together? 1 + 2 = 3 / 2 = 1.5? I doubt it is this easy. If so it would be very easy to use this as a major advantage to just retake those classes and get a 4.0, and thus change a disadvantage, into an easy advantage.

 

[PoorTimmyTucker]

If those are core science classes you should probably retake them regardless of how its calculated.

 

[Eric552]

They weren't.. They were all very minor classes in which I have already went way beyond at my current university. It would be nice to be able to just erase that whole record but I know that isn't an option.

 

[beckhunter116]

Well every class taken is used together to create your gpa; however, AACOMAS does allow grade replacement. So if you retake a class you got an F in and get an A, only the A will count for your gpa (although the F will be on your transcript). Just make sure that the credit hours are the same or more for the retake.

 

[Laryngophed]

Well every class taken is used together to create your gpa; however, AACOMAS does allow grade replacement. So if you retake a class you got an F in and get an A, only the A will count for your gpa (although the F will be on your transcript). Just make sure that the credit hours are the same or more for the retake.

I believe they must have the same course number to allow replacement as well, IIRC.

 

[Eric552]

Hmm.. when I spoke with the school they mentioned that they have since switched from quarters, to semesters. I hope this wouldn't prevent me from being able to replace those grades.

 

[Laryngophed]

Hmm.. when I spoke with the school they mentioned that they have since switched from quarters, to semesters. I hope this wouldn't prevent me from being able to replace those grades.

I would call AACOMAS and see what their ruling is on this. I suppose that a letter from the colleges registrar stating as much + your transcripts reflecting this may allow them to do the substitution for you, but ultimately it's their ball, so their rules.

 

[MalachiConstant]

I believe they must have the same course number to allow replacement as well, IIRC.

The course numbers don't have to be the same, but the courses have to be equivalent. OP, if you decide to replace some classes, you may need to talk to your school to determine what those classes would be, so they could be considered replacements.

As an example, I was able to replace an F in GEO 160 from a community college with an A in GEO 101 at my current university, since they were considered equivalent courses by the university. I was able to do this for other classes as well, even though they were taken at different schools and had different course numbers.

MC

 

[Laryngophed]

The course numbers don't have to be the same, but the courses have to be equivalent. OP, if you decide to replace some classes, you may need to talk to your school to determine what those classes would be, so they could be considered replacements.

As an example, I was able to replace an F in GEO 160 from a community college with an A in GEO 101 at my current university, since they were considered equivalent courses by the university. I was able to do this for other classes as well, even though they were taken at different schools and had different course numbers.

MC

Ah, thanks for the info and I stand corrected.

 

[Mohammed1989]

Something similar happened when I was fresh out of high school in 2007. I took a couple of courses and failed all of them except psychology, I have a medical reason though. I retook all of those course but I just thought about it over in the first college my biology course was seperated it was bio lecture 3 credits and bio lab 1 credit. I retook biology at my cc and its a total of 4 credits because it includes the lab. Is this equaivalent? I know the college coursework is equal because when you transfer from the cc I'm at all the credits are excepted into the college.

Thanks

 

[beckhunter116]

Something similar happened when I was fresh out of high school in 2007. I took a couple of courses and failed all of them except psychology, I have a medical reason though. I retook all of those course but I just thought about it over in the first college my biology course was seperated it was bio lecture 3 credits and bio lab 1 credit. I retook biology at my cc and its a total of 4 credits because it includes the lab. Is this equaivalent? I know the college coursework is equal because when you transfer from the cc I'm at all the credits are excepted into the college.

Thanks

If anything you would just need to send in some information to AACOMAS showing that at one school the credits were together and at the other they were seperated. I don't think you would have any problem.

 

[Emerald84]

They will ask you during your interview what happened. Don't give excuses, just explain it. You'll need to do very very well from here on out in your science courses. A lot of people have a rough start, the important thing is to figure out what your resources are and be consistent in doing well from here on out. Good luck!