Appeal for completion percentage

Paying for College
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<p>Hello all,</p>

<p>So after this past semester, my completion percentage fell under the required 70% for my school. I am currently at 69.81% completion percentage with a 2.8 GPA. So now I lost my FA and have to appeal to get it back. About a year and a half ago I got advising because I was under the GPA requirement for my major and was told to retake some classes I did bad in to boost it up. That next semester I retook a psychology class I previously had a D on and got an A. The following semester I retook 2 other classes, but in these two classes I did not earn a D the first time around, I got C's in them. Mid way through that semester I come to find out that because I got C's in them, the grades would not change. Unfortunately this was not explained to me during my visit with the counselor, had I known that it was essentially pointless for me to take them, I obviously would not have taken them. Fast forward to now, those 6 credit hours that don't help or hurt my GPA at all, and are essentially pointless, are now affecting my completion percentage in a negative manner. </p>

<p>How do you all think I should approach this? Do I have a chance? Is it essentially my fault whether or not the counselor failed to explain how retakes worked? It's super frustrating seeing that a tiny percentage is affecting me in such a way. Any advice is much appreciated.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance</p>

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<p>I think that you should not try to excuse not knowing the rules. That’s your responsibility, read and be familiar with policies when you are doing things, especially things not usual, like taking over classes you passed , But what a useless thing to do even if you get the new grade, retake C classes–that rightly should be on your own dime. I think you should approach it from the point that the gpa is acceptable and the completion rate is a rounding issue. It is so close to acceptable that you can assert that you are an assured candidate to have a successful next semester so they are not taking a risk on you, you’ve show that you have learned what it takes to succeed in your classes now.</p>

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<p>You may not get better grades from the two courses with C, but you can learn again what you did not learn well previously. It was still a good move and there is no reason the counselor to warn or stop you from doing that. What made it a bad move is when you learned you would not get new grades from them and did not care to drop it or finish it.</p>