Repeating Courses - Different School & Different Title

[Obnoxious Dad]

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I know that AACOMAS allows students to repeat a course and AACOMAS will use the higher grade to calculate the GPA and science GPA. My daughter's undergraduate college will not allow her to repeat the one course for which she would like a "Mulligan".

If she took a course at a different college with a slightly different title would AACOMAS allow her to drop the old grade and just use the Mulligan to compute GPA's?

 

[DrMidlife]

The AACOMAS app allocates about a dozen Mulligans, and it's up to you to tell them which course is a Mulligan of which course. So you get a bucket called "Repeat 06" and you stick courses in there as many times as you repeat them until the last good one, which you call "Last Repeat 06."

I can't remember the exact terms, but it looks sort of like this:

U of Wherever - Chem 5A - D - Spring 2006 - Repeat 05

U of Somewhere - Chem 142 - B - Spring 2007 - Last Repeat 05

And then the D isn't included in GPA calcs. Note however that the D does show up in coursework totals and it is quite visible to the schools. I had some pretty twisty wicked repeats where semester courses were replaced with quarter courses and it all worked out fine.

BTW you can start up an app on aacomas.aacom.org any time you want, without any requirement that you save it or submit it. I did this a year in advance with AMCAS.

Best of luck to you.

 

[EEL08]

Mulligan? I had two science classes that I retook at different schools that had different titles but generally were the same classes. AACOMAS calculated my GPA with both repeats.

 

[DrMidlife]

AACOMAS calculated my GPA with both repeats.

Did you designate the courses as repeats?

 

[Obnoxious Dad]

Mulligan? I had two science classes that I retook at different schools that had different titles but generally were the same classes. AACOMAS calculated my GPA with both repeats.

Under the rules of golf you don't get to take back a shot and repeat it. However, most people don't play by the rules. A Mulligan is a repeated shot taken as if the first one never happened. Legend has it that there was a fellow at Winged Foot Country Club in New York named Mulligan who was infamous for repeating shots.

 

[EEL08]

Did you designate the courses as repeats?

Yep. I just put Repeat 1 and Last Repeat 1 I believe for the first class and so on.

 

[EEL08]

Under the rules of golf you don't get to take back a shot and repeat it. However, most people don't play by the rules. A Mulligan is a repeated shot taken as if the first one never happened. Legend has it that there was a fellow at Winged Foot Country Club in New York named Mulligan who was infamous for repeating shots.

Hey thanks for explaining that to me! Very interesting. 🙂

 

[Obnoxious Dad]

The AACOMAS app allocates about a dozen Mulligans, and it's up to you to tell them which course is a Mulligan of which course. So you get a bucket called "Repeat 06" and you stick courses in there as many times as you repeat them until the last good one, which you call "Last Repeat 06."

I can't remember the exact terms, but it looks sort of like this:

U of Wherever - Chem 5A - D - Spring 2006 - Repeat 05

U of Somewhere - Chem 142 - B - Spring 2007 - Last Repeat 05

And then the D isn't included in GPA calcs. Note however that the D does show up in coursework totals and it is quite visible to the schools. I had some pretty twisty wicked repeats where semester courses were replaced with quarter courses and it all worked out fine.

BTW you can start up an app on aacomas.aacom.org any time you want, without any requirement that you save it or submit it. I did this a year in advance with AMCAS.

Best of luck to you.

Thanks and good luck to you, Dr. Midlife, and to EEL08 as well.

 

[Kateb4]

Mulligan? I had two science classes that I retook at different schools that had different titles but generally were the same classes. AACOMAS calculated my GPA with both repeats.

They do need to be equivalents though, so perhaps your classes were not exact equivalents? I had several retakes, and I checked with the school to make sure that they would transfer as the same class if I transfered them. If you feel that yours are the same, I'd call into AACOMAS, because they should have only calculated with the most recent grade for the retake.

 

[EEL08]

They do need to be equivalents though, so perhaps your classes were not exact equivalents? I had several retakes, and I checked with the school to make sure that they would transfer as the same class if I transfered them. If you feel that yours are the same, I'd call into AACOMAS, because they should have only calculated with the most recent grade for the retake.

😕 I'm guessing they were close enough because they did count them as repeats. I had two classes I listed as repeats and for each class they counted the grade from the most recent time I took each class.

 

[Kateb4]

😕 I'm guessing they were close enough because they did count them as repeats. I had two classes I listed as repeats and for each class they counted the grade from the most recent time I took each class.

OK! I misunderstood you, I thought you were saying that AACOMAS used both your original grade and the retake grade. It's all good!

 

[EEL08]

OK! I misunderstood you, I thought you were saying that AACOMAS used both your original grade and the retake grade. It's all good!

I was starting to confuse myself there for a second. 😛 Is that you in your avatar? The water looks cold but I'm guessing it's not.

 

[Kateb4]

I was starting to confuse myself there for a second. 😛 Is that you in your avatar? The water looks cold but I'm guessing it's not.

Yes that's me on vacation last year in the Florida Keys, so it wasn't cold. However, with how the weather here has been lately, the thought of being outside in water is chilling. We're going to go back to the keys, and disney with the kids in the spring for a nice long trip.