Reporting California CC Academic Renewal After Submitting UC Transfer Application

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I’ve been attending San Diego Mesa College since 2017 with the intent to transfer to a UC. I am on track to finish my courses in Spring 2021, so I submitted a transfer application in Fall 2020 seeking admission for Fall 2021. For my major, I am required to take Linear Algebra and I ended up struggling a lot in that class. I withdrew the first time, then subsequently earned a D then an F. Since San Diego Mesa College has a three-time attempt policy, I retook the course one more time at Grossmont College during Fall 2020 and earned an A there.

I recently found out about academic renewal, and petitioned to have the D and F in Linear Algebra disregarded. This was early in January 2021, well after I submitted my UC application. My question is, how can I report the academic renewal to UC (and CSU) retroactively? I already declared the failing grades I received. I saw a few other posts where people suggested reporting the academic renewal in the Transfer Academic Update, but I received the failing grades earlier than Fall 2020, so that doesn’t seem to be an option. If I can pull this off, it’ll boost my GPA to a 3.5 to something like a 3.72, so I’m pretty keen on getting it done. Thank you in advance for any insight!

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There is no need for you to use academic renewal for UC admission although it will help for CSU. For UC, AR is for removing classes you are not going to repeat in order to get those grades off your gpa calculation.

For UC if you repeat a class in which you got a C- or lower then the first passing grade is the only one they count in your gpa, they specifically say they do not average grades. So I don’t think you have calculated your gpa correctly. See page 30 of
University of California Counselors

For CSU they honor the grading policies of the school where you earned the credits. See page 14 of https://www2.calstate.edu/apply/transfer/documents/cal-state-apply-transfer-credit-entry-guide.pdf So it sounds like AR is the only way to remove the grades. To find out how to notify CSU of the change to AR (if it is granted) you could contact them using the info at https://www2.calstate.edu/Pages/contact.aspx

Given your UC gpa I hope you used the TAG program to get guaranteed admission to a participating UC campus if your major qualifies.

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Thanks for the thorough response. So in this case, would UC use my linear algebra grade from Grossmont rather than my failing grade from Mesa to calculate my transfer GPA?

I considered applying for TAG, but my GPA was a 3.38 at the time, so I wasn’t eligible according to my counselor.