<p>D did summer classes at other universities in the summers and mostly while an undergrad to explore other academic areas. She did not receive credit at her undergrad university toward her degree and they did not count in her GPA. She has BA degree and is looking at applying to graduate school. My question is, can she include the grades received before college and can she include the grades during undergrad in her GPA for grad school admission GPA? These classes while taught in the summer were very much undergrad classes and at top universities and she did very well. Most of the classes were in the summers during college. None were after college graduation. Her college only accepted courses taught there and she knew that, but she wanted to augment or try an alternative class not taught at her college.</p>
<p>Can you direct me to a forum or way to answer this?
I distinctly remember reading this about 4 years ago and cannot find the info.</p>
<p>When she applies, she will need to send official copies of all of her college-level transcripts. No matter when or where she took those courses.</p>
<p>How each institution handles the GPA count is up to them. She needs to ask each place.</p>
<p>Not only does it matter by place, it matters by program. </p>
<p>For my MPH applications, I submitted all transcripts and grades from every place I had ever taken a class to a centralized application system called SOPHAS. It spit out a GPA for me that took into account all courses. </p>
<p>OTOH, I am applying for my PhD at the same institution where I’m getting my MPH and they ONLY want transcripts from where I’ve received or will receive a degree- same with GPA. They do not want transcripts from the CC and international school where I took college classes, only where I got my BA/BS and MPH from. </p>
<p>My D had this issue. She had taken two very important classes at another university over the summer. The college that she did her undergrad accepted the credits but it did not figure into her GPA. That was frustrating because it would have brought her GPA up quite a bit and they were heavy duty classes and labs.
She did, of course, send all of her transcripts to her grad programs and I assume that they recalculated her GPA. The good news is that she got into all but one program and is attending her first choice.</p>
<p>When DD applied, most schools wanted all transcripts. DD figured out an overall and a major GPA using all classes that pertained. If there was a school that wanted fewer transcripts, that was simple.</p>