<p>If I am an Swarthmore student, and I take a course at (Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Penn ):</p>
<p>Do I merely get the credit for that course on my Swarthmore transcript? Or is the grade for that course recorded on my Swarthmore transcript and figured into the Swarthmore GPA reported by the Swarthmore registrar on my Swarthmore transcript?</p>
<p>As far as I know the Swarthmore registrar does not compute an official GPA, and no GPA is reported on a Swarthmore transcript.</p>
<p>Current/recent students can correct me if I am mistaken, but I imagine that Tri-co grades are reported on your Swarthmore transcript.</p>
<p>The grade would not be figured in your Swarthmore-only GPA. Courses taken in study abroad and exchange programs are included in your Swarthmore transcript as credit/no credit only. I strongly recommend going directly to the registrar at Swarthmore with questions like these. This is territory that treads very close to getting ruling on federal tax code. The registrar’s office is the expert opinion!</p>
<p>In general, Swarthmore is very uppity when it comes to studies that take place anywhere but Swarthmore. They are not usually going to “sully” the Swarthmore brand with grades earned elsewhere. I’m being a little facetious, but not really.</p>
<p>Here’s a relevant section of the pre-med guide that will give you some sense of the various versions of GPA:</p>
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<p>[Swarthmore</a> College :: Health Sciences Office :: Guide for Applying to Medical School for Swarthmore Undergraduates and Alumni/ae](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/x8889.xml]Swarthmore”>Guide for Applying to Medical School for Swarthmore Undergraduates and Alumni/ae :: Health Sciences Office :: Swarthmore College)</p>
<p>Interesting, Swarthmore’s policy then differs from that of the other members of The Quaker Consortium. At Penn, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr, consortium courses taken at one of the other Consortium colleges are recorded on the student’s home institution transcript and GPA calculation. According to posters on the respective sub-fora, with one source cited and one link provided.</p>
<p>I guess it isn’t necessarily the case that these practices have to be identical at each member institution of a consortium, no reason why practices can’t vary. At least theoretically.</p>
<p>Check with the registrar for a definitive answer. I know that my daughter’s study abroad courses were all recorded as credit/no credit on her Swarthmore transcript.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr and Haverford have different relationship with each other. They actually divide up many of the departments and, for all intents and purposes, have a joint curriculum. They almost would have to record grades from both schools.</p>
<p>If those study abroad courses were not offered via the Quaker Consortium, by one of the four member colleges, they are not the subject of this inquiry.</p>
<p>It is commonplace for institutions to just give credits, not use the actual grades, for courses taken at other institutions where they have no relationship. That is not at issue here. The issue is specifically whether they use the grades for courses offered by members of a consortium of which they are a member. Not courses taken outside of such consortium.</p>
<p>Amherst uses the grades from its consortium members.
Pomona uses the grades from its consortium members.
Penn, Haverford and Bryn Mawr use the grades for their consortium members.</p>
<p>(I have learned all this via posts at the same time as this one.)</p>
<p>If Swarthmore doesn’t it would be the sole outlier, at least that I’ve encountered so far.</p>
<p>I just confirmed with S1 that there is no GPA on an official Swarthmore transcript. I can ask D1 if Haverford or Penn grades appear on Swarthmore transcripts.</p>
<p>My daughter is a current student at Swarthmore. Perhaps the “official” transcript will not record her gpa; however, her semester grades clearly have a cumulative gpa recorded and visible on the printout. She finds knowing her gpa important due to her pre-med status. She took a course at Haverford Fall, 2009. The course and grade appear on her Swarthmore transcript but the grade is not included in her Swarthmore gpa.</p>
<p>Consortium classes have their grades listed on the Swarthmore transcript, with an asterisk indicating “taken elsewhere”. These are not counted in the Swarthmore GPA. I have never seen a GPA printed on semester grades or on a transcript, but GPA calculations are used for things like Phi Beta Kappa.</p>
<p>Here is the official GPA policy (including info about courses taken at Bryn Mawr and Haverford) found on the Registrar’s webpage:</p>
<p>Grade Point Average (GPA)</p>
<p>Swarthmore College does not rank students in class, nor does it provide GPA outside the College. If you would like to calculate a GPA the way the College does for its graduation requirement (step by step instructions below), please use the following Swarthmore grade point equivalents:
A+ = 4.0
A = 4.0
A- = 3.67
B+ = 3.33
B = 3.0
B- = 2.67
C+ = 2.33
C = 2.0
C- = 1.67
D+ = 1.33
D = 1.0
D- = 0.67</p>
<p>The following grades are not included in the calculation of the grade average degree requirement: CR (credit), NC (no credit), NR (grade not reported by the instructor), INC (incomplete), IP (in progress), R (audit), W (Withdrawal), and * (ungraded credits earned for honors work prior to 1997). For 1997 and 1998 only: HHH=4.0, HH=3.83, H=3.5 (Senior Honors Study grades only).</p>
<p>Grades followed by an asterisk indicate that the letter grade was earned elsewhere. Numeric grades are used for inter-institutional courses done at Bryn Mawr or Haverford, whose letter point equivalencies are on a 4.0 scale. Grades for work done elsewhere are recorded on the Swarthmore transcript but are not included in the calculation of the grade average degree requirement.</p>
<p>Grades for excluded courses are recorded on the Swarthmore transcript but are not included in the calculation of the grade average degree requirement. Swarthmore normally excludes two kinds of courses: the earlier instance of a repeated course (except for the few courses which may be repeated for credit), and the first semester of the first year of language instruction if the second semester is not completed. Courses excluded from degree credit are indicated with an “E” in the “R” column on the transcript, or, on transcripts without an R column, their grades appear in parentheses, or circled.</p>
<p>[Swarthmore</a> Registrar](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/Admin/registrar/page.phtml?sidebar=policies&content=gpa]Swarthmore”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/Admin/registrar/page.phtml?sidebar=policies&content=gpa)</p>