Transcript Ques, Please Help!!!!!

[francais7979]

I have an unofficial copy of my transcript and it lists the grades by semesters (spring 2000, fall 2000, etc) however it does NOT tell me which semesters I was a freshman, sophmore, junior or senior.

I graduated with 155 credits, and I know the adcoms see your gpa by year, but how can I break this down? Does anyone know how many credits you have to be a soph, junior or senior???

Also, what is more heavily weighed - Total cum gpa, sci gpa, post bac, or gpa's by fresh, soph, junior, senior?

I have a high sci gpa and i'm doing well in postbac's. I graduated Dec 2002, and I have a downward trend. Well its cyclical - down, then up, then down. My postbac (30 credits) is strong - 4.0 all sciences.

I also read that AACOMAS breaks your Gpa by subject, is this true??

Thanks!

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[Bond8204]

This is what the table ends up looking like:

(finally got my edited table hosted. make sure your pop-up blocker is on):



Unless you were in college for more than 4 years, I would just break down fresh/soph/junior/senior into the actual semesters and years that they were.

 

[prionsRbad]

You have to break it down like this:

Freshman = 0-29 hours
Sophomore = 30-59 hours
Junior = 60-90
Senior = 90+

AACOMAS will break it down like this for you if you don't enter it this way and it will add an extra week to your verification time.

Good Luck

 

[francais7979]

tHANKS FOR THAT sheet bond8204, that was helpful!

So I guess they dont list your gpa by school?????????? Do they know how many schools you did your post bac at? I'm going to 3 schools to take 7-8 classes so I can finish by next year.

 

[francais7979]

Thanks for the information Prionsrbad!!

It took me 5 years to graduate b/c I changed my major to comp sci so I guess any credits after 90 will be considered senior?????????????/

 

[francais7979]

One other question - what if you took a course as a sophmore and then repeated it in junior year.

Do you count the course as a soph or junior??????????/

Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[EEL08]

Thanks for the information Prionsrbad!!

It took me 5 years to graduate b/c I changed my major to comp sci so I guess any credits after 90 will be considered senior?????????????/

It took me 5 years to graduate too so after so many credit hours (90 I guess) I just listed everything else as senior year.

One other question - what if you took a course as a sophmore and then repeated it in junior year.

Do you count the course as a soph or junior??????????/

Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You count it as both. You have to list the original time you took it and the retake.

 

[francais7979]

EEL08 -I"m a little confused.

Suppose I took a course as a sophmore and got a D, then took a course as a Junior and got a A.

You said that you have to count it as both - but does that mean I count the A when I was a sophmore and junior ORRRR do i count the original grade D as a soph and A as a Junior, and if the latter is the case, then there realllllly is NOOOO grade forgiveness right??????????

 

[EEL08]

EEL08 -I"m a little confused.

Suppose I took a course as a sophmore and got a D, then took a course as a Junior and got a A.

You said that you have to count it as both - but does that mean I count the A when I was a sophmore and junior ORRRR do i count the original grade D as a soph and A as a Junior, and if the latter is the case, then there realllllly is NOOOO grade forgiveness right??????????

You list the D as a soph and A as a junior. The schools will be able to see all your grades but your GPA will only be calculated with the A. There are instructions when you're filling out the app for how to list courses as repeats.

 

[307Doc]

EEL08 -I"m a little confused.

Suppose I took a course as a sophmore and got a D, then took a course as a Junior and got a A.

You said that you have to count it as both - but does that mean I count the A when I was a sophmore and junior ORRRR do i count the original grade D as a soph and A as a Junior, and if the latter is the case, then there realllllly is NOOOO grade forgiveness right??????????

When you are applying you will put both down on your application. You will have your D as a sophmore with class repeat next to that and then, if you retook it during your junior year put it there as final retake (or something like that) the ADCOMS don't so much care when you took your courses as long as you are honest and passed them.

WIth regards to grade forgiveness your retake will replace your original grade. It doesn't matter if you retoke it a year or five years latter. AACOMAS understands we make mistakes and does allow for grade forgiveness. So don't fret, you'll be fine.

 

[francais7979]

sorry guys - i'm trying to calcuate my gpa for fresh, soph, junio, and senior and i'm having trouble.

Also some courses I took only give S for satisfactory and U for unsatisfactory which are 1 credit, as a freshman do I count this credit or not?

Also i'm scared now because If you take a course as freshman and get D and then retake it as junior and get A, and if there is grade forgiveness do you disregard the D and dont count the 3 credits for the D in your freshman gpa????

Also when you calculate your freshmn and soph gpa, does the sophmore gpa include JUST the second year (30-59 credits) OR does the sophmore gpa include freshman and sophmore (0-59credits)?????

 

[307Doc]

sorry guys - i'm trying to calcuate my gpa for fresh, soph, junio, and senior and i'm having trouble.

Also some courses I took only give S for satisfactory and U for unsatisfactory which are 1 credit, as a freshman do I count this credit or not?

Also i'm scared now because If you take a course as freshman and get D and then retake it as junior and get A, and if there is grade forgiveness do you disregard the D and dont count the 3 credits for the D in your freshman gpa????

Also when you calculate your freshmn and soph gpa, does the sophmore gpa include JUST the second year (30-59 credits) OR does the sophmore gpa include freshman and sophmore (0-59credits)?????

AACOMAS won't break your grades down to each individual year like you are trying to do. They will break it down to science, non-science, and possible other courses.
But if you wanted to actually caluculate your individual year GPA's if you had 32 credit hours for your first year and then retook a 3 credit hour course you would then figure your gpa using 29 credit hours. Then use that retake in the year you retook it.
As for S/U courses I have no clue how to figure those into the gpa. I don't think they actually do anything for your gpa, but I'm clueless

 

[francais7979]

I thought AACOMAS breaks your GPA by freshman, sophmore, Junior and Senior to see a GPA Trend????

Lets say as Sophmore I take 15 Credits all F's.
Then I retake all the courses in my third year as a junior and get All A's in my retakes.

Is my Sophmore gpa 0.00??????? Or is my Sophmore gpa 4.0 because of grade forgiveness so that my junor year is really sophmore year?

 

[francais7979]

If you look at the table that Bond8204 posted above, AACOMAS breaks the gpa by fresh, soph, junio, senior so that AACOMAS can see a gpa trend.

Lets say as Sophmore I take 15 Credits all F's.
Then I retake all the courses in my third year as a junior and get All A's in my retakes.

Is my Sophmore gpa 0.00??????? Or is my Sophmore gpa 4.0 because of grade forgiveness so that my junor year is really sophmore year?

 

[Bond8204]

Your sophomore year GPA will be 0.0. Your junior year GPA will be 4.0. Your cumulative GPA just looking at these will be 4.0 assuming each junior year A replaced each sophomore year F. Your grades and broken down GPA will still show that you failed those courses sophomore year and had a 0.0 that semester.

Grade "replacement" applies toward your overall calculated cumulative AACOMAS gpa. You would almost certainly (I assume we're speaking in hypotheticals anyway) have to explain failing classes sophomore year, but that's easier to do when you retook all the classes junior year and got an A. That's the reason AACOMAS takes the higher grade when calculating GPA.

Let's calm down the punctuation as well.

 

[Bond8204]

to see a GPA Trend????

GPA trends don't mean you got a 3.8 then you failed every course sophomore year to get a 0.0 then you got a 3.9 then you got a 0.0 then you got a 4.0

What's much more important is an overall trend from 4.0 freshman year...to 3.3 sophomore year...to 2.7 junior year...to 2.0 senior year.

Similarly what's much more impressive is starting out at 3.0 freshman year and slowly climbing up to a 3.5 cumulative gpa.

Those are really the only two situations in which a trend is important--big picture trends. What it seems you should be much more worried about is explaining one or two particularly bad semesters.

 

[prionsRbad]

AACOMAS won't break your grades down to each individual year like you are trying to do.

Yes they do. They break it down according to Freshman year, sophomore year, etc.

 

[307Doc]

Yes they do. They break it down according to Freshman year, sophomore year, etc.

I stand corrected, I apologize for my mispost. I just looked at my aacomas application and sure enough they have my gpa for each year of school I've attened. Thank goodness for grade forgiveness. My freshman year sucked.

 

[prionsRbad]

I stand corrected, I apologize for my mispost. I just looked at my aacomas application and sure enough they have my gpa for each year of school I've attened. Thank goodness for grade forgiveness. My freshman year sucked.

It's cool. 😀

Yes, thank goodness for grade replacement! My freshman GPA was sooo bad. 😳

 

[francais7979]

Thank you guys so much! I am now clear on how this works.

To summarize, Grade Forgiveness only applies to Overall GPA, Sci and Non Sci.

Grade Forgiveness DOES NOT apply when calculating GPA by freshman, soph, junior or senior year.

Sorry for all the punctuations! I get too excited sometimes.

 

[Live4Life]

Say that you only take 28 credits during your first two semesters (freshmen year), then the following semester would you classify all courses as sophomore or would you could one of the courses toward your freshman GPA? I was under the impression, that since it was only 2 hours short of the sophomore credit hour classification, I should go ahead and classify all of the courses in the subsequent semester as sophomore courses. I'm sorry if my question isn't clear. If it's not, let me know and I will rephrase it. Thanks.

 

[Bond8204]

If you have a normal college transcript then don't worry about the hours classifications. This is more for people who were in college for more than 4 years.

 

[Live4Life]

I was just using the freshmen year as an example, my situation is quite complex b/c I took 4 summer courses each summer session also.

 

[francais7979]

4Health i'm in ure situation too. I took 5 yrs to graduate and took summer courses as well. I guess AACOMAS will sort it out for us if we make a mistake.