Metaphorically speaking, I just found a $20 in my laundry.

[SmileyBoy]

It appears that my GPA is a lot higher than I originally thought. Lemme explain:

I was just talking with my father about my classes that I'm taking in college right now, and about an appointment I have scheduled with my class advisor for next week. Now, we were talking about the credits I took in technical college (I'm a transfer Sophomore from tech school, BTW), and how they relate to my GPA overall, and my piss-poor grade performance last semester, and how I'll be talking to my advisor about that.

I have 60-something credits after this year. I will have earned 21 credits this whole year. I count as a full-time student for 2003-04, because I originally enrolled with 24, and only dropped 3 credits.

Now, I had a piss-poor showing in three classes last year with a B and two D's. My grades this semester are better, with a (hopeful) projection for this May of two B's, a C and a D. With my previous mode of thinking, I would have thought that my cummulative GPA for two semesters would be 2.0, which would be just enough to escape academic probation. I used to think that there wouldn't be a good chance of me meeting the minimal standards by the end of this semester, and I would have to be put on probation.

But my father told me that he thought my cummulative GPA would be for ALL the credits I have, including the ones that transferred from tech school. And if that's the case, then my cummulative GPA is AT LEAST 2.8, because my GPA in tech school was just under 3.0!!!

In other words, I was only counting my university credits, and not the whole amount of credits I have, including the ones that transferred.

WELL, DUH!!! HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID??? I've been spending the past two months worrying if they'll let me keep my job on the NDSU football staff next fall, when I've been OK in my GPA the whole time!!!

Not only THAT, but there's a better chance for me to get my GPA back to above 3.0 after next year if my grades keep improving, before I apply for the NDSU undergrad architecture program in May 2005. The standards are that you usually need at least a 3.1 GPA. Well HELL, here I am at only .3 behind that, when all the time I thought I was 1.1-1.3 behind that!!!

Sometimes you just figure something out that seems completely obvious, and it improves your situation a WHOLE lot. I am SOOOOO glad that my GPA is a lot better than I thought it was.

PHEW!!!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. I thought you found the $20 I lost last week

Just kidding. That's great news. Have you been worried?

[SmileyBoy]

2. Yes. A whole bunch.

I'm not even completely 100 percent sure about this, but I'm pretty damn sure that your cummulative GPA as a transfer student consists of ALL the credits you earned. Because if it's not, then I'm basically a freshman here. But I'm not a freshman. 43 of these credits that I have (the 2.95 average credits from tech school) are valid, and tallied up in my transcript.

[SmileyBoy]

3. kick

:kick:

[Shananigans]

4. Hmm...I'm not sure about that...

In Minnesota, you can transfer credits, but not your GPA... I'd check on that if I were you!

[SmileyBoy]

5. I go to college in North Dakota.

I went to tech school in Minnesota.

And I'm pretty damn sure that my cumm. GPA is that of all my credits. Everything that came with me from tech school (credits, transcript, test scores), I took with me to NDSU.

[Shananigans]

7. same for me....

everything I had from the community college I took with me to the State University. But when they figure out your GPA, they don't use the grades you got at the community/tech school to configure it.

My understanding of why this is is because your GPA is suppose to reflect how you are doing at that particular school, not previous schools.

From my knowledge both NDSU and UND are the same, so if you go to one of them you might be SOL. But good luck!

[SmileyBoy]

8. Oh, shit.

Then I pray to God that I don't get put on academic probation.

[GOPisEvil]

6. I agree.

I have 60 hours from a Junior College, where I did great, but my transcript from Texas A&M lists only the coursework I took there. All the transfer courses are listed with no grades attached.