Upperclassman Status + GPA Concerns

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Hold on. You will need to take 14 hours this summer, and get a 4.0, to raise your cumulative GPA to a 3.1 (handy-dandy "how to raise your GPA" calculator). I'm not sure that it's possible to take that many units at your college during the summer, but it may be; I don't know your college's policies on this. I hope, for your sake, that it is - and that you get a 4.0!

Not necessarily. My university offered an option called FX. If you failed a class, you filled out a form in the registrar's office when you re-took the class, your original F went away and the new grade took it's place. I had a dormmate who did this and just one class raised her GPA significantly. She failed the class first semester freshman year. It was a math class that she should not have been placed in during registration. Second semester she took the course before it to bring her skills up to speed and then first summer session she re-took the original math class and earned a B+. With so few credit hours, it does make a BIG difference in your GPA. This may be what the OP is doing with one or two courses.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

Not necessarily. My university offered an option called FX. If you failed a class, you filled out a form in the registrar's office when you re-took the class, your original F went away and the new grade took it's place. I had a dormmate who did this and just one class raised her GPA significantly. She failed the class first semester freshman year. It was a math class that she should not have been placed in during registration. Second semester she took the course before it to bring her skills up to speed and then first summer session she re-took the original math class and earned a B+. With so few credit hours, it does make a BIG difference in your GPA. This may be what the OP is doing with one or two courses.

Yes, I understand what you are saying. It's also known as "Grade Replacement Option." The bottom line still is that 14 credits of A are needed to raise a 2.4 to a 3.1. So, she could GRO two classes for six units, get As in those, which would raise her GPA some - and then take 8 units of other classes and get As.

See what I'm saying?

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Yes, I understand what you are saying. It's also known as "Grade Replacement Option." The bottom line still is that 14 credits of A are needed to raise a 2.4 to a 3.1. So, she could GRO two classes for six units, get As in those, which would raise her GPA some - and then take 8 units of other classes and get As.

See what I'm saying?

Yes, but i think you're forgetting that the 0.0 from the F is removed from the original 2.4, so it goes up. If she only has one year in, replacing that F will raise her GPA more than some, it might make her eligible for recruitment. It did my dormmate. She went from 2.4 to a GPA after freshman year to a GPA making her eligible for informal recruitment in the fall after just replacing the math class F.