<p>Good Afternoon,</p>
<p>I have a quite a few questions regarding GPA, credit and college admittance. </p>
<p>First, my situation.</p>
<p>I was getting a BA in Music Composition, but just recently switched, and found out, luckily I only had to take 2 classes to still graduate with a Bach. of Science in Liberal Studies. </p>
<p>So, one class is underway and the other will be completed next fall. </p>
<p>MY GPA is decent around a 3.73.</p>
<p>My question: I am still, obviously finding out what I want to do. </p>
<p>I have been studying up and researching science related fields. I am quite drawn to either behavioral or neurological psychology. </p>
<p>My question; if I want to go to grad school, and I decide to take some classes after graduating to fill in the holes where pre reqs may be what is the best course of action to take?</p>
<p>1) should I hold off on graduating until I take the pre reqs
2) if i graduate with the BS in Liberal Studies will additional classes at a community college be factored into my degree, or included in transcripts?
3) will additional classes raise my GPA (assuming I get grades that would facilitate that?)</p>
<p>Anyone do this?</p>
<p>I imagine there are people out there who have gotten a Bachelors in one thing, and then decided on a total different direction and have gotten into Grad school.</p>
<p>All thoughts are welcome! Thanks!</p>
<p>If you have not exhausted your potential financial aid (Pell, stafford etc.) it may be better to change to the science major now and take two full years to graduate.</p>
<p>To continue my earlier post:</p>
<p>After you finish your first BA the only federal aid available will be unsubsidized Federal/Stafford Loans. If you have been receiving subsidized loans, Pell grants, Perkins, or federal work-study, that money will dry up. So, if you need federal aid to cover your costs of study, and you qualify for significant amounts of that kind of aid, and you have not yet used up your full quotas (ask kelsmom in the Financial Aid Forum for to explain the limits to you), then you probably want to change your major where you are or transfer to a place that offers the new major and also admits students with the number of credits that you have (community colleges will, so will many public universities). Don’t graduate with your first bachelor’s degree until you are certain that you won’t need aid to continue your plan to change fields of study.</p>
<p>When you apply to grad school, you will send all of your transcripts from however many places you have attended up to that point in time. How the grad school averages those numbers, and what numbers are important for that grad school is entirely up to the grad school (and often to the specific grad program) itself. So, do make an effort to get straight As.</p>
<p>Lots of us have successfully changed fields. Some start at community colleges, some return to their original alma mater for a full second bachelor’s degree, some just pick up random credits here, there, anywhere. I went to my home-state public U for about two years. What you propose to do can indeed be done. Don’t worry about that.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you start by reading up on the grad programs that you would target so that you can be certain to complete the undergrad coursework that is necessary as pre-reqs for the grad coursework that you would take.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best!</p>