<p>^^^ all of this is true. They’re old grades, which helps. But Haas is Haas, so you really need to try to get them off the GPA. Haas calculates GPA heavily. Since you now have an extra year, you have options. So it should work out.</p>
<p>You need to reach out to your Washington college as soon as you can. Their website will tell you straight out what their AR policy is. If it’s doable, that is option 1, as far as I’m concerned. Then it’s all off your plate. You do have wiggle room for retakes if that fails.</p>
<p>The website says the class can be retaken at the school, and even then, both grades would stay on the transcript though the CC would only factor the higher one … but what the school I transfer into looks at is dependent on their policies.</p>
<p>Yeah, each CC has it’s own policies. I have never read what the policy is for ten year old grades at the UCs. Doing nothing may be acceptable, but all in all I would try and redo at least psych, assuming the new class will replace the first. Even if it doesn’t, it at least shows you tried. Nutrition may not be transferable, so it might not factor in.</p>
<p>Basically I think you should reach out to Haas first and see what they say. They might just say forget the whole thing. That still is not ideal because who wants to see the lower GPA. But it may be what it is.</p>
<p>ANOTHER POINT: This is recalling a similar situation where the CC was just hard-nosed about getting AR for years-old grades because the college made it impossible unless they returned. Somehow it worked out. I can’t remember how it was done, but an advisor got around it somehow. It was on college confidential. Maybe your current CC advisor needs to reach out to Pierce. I mean, we are talking ten years ago. If nothing else you can document in comments that you tried endlessly to work out the AR. I wish I could remember. The outcome worked. I think the grades were Fs, though.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your insight, @lindyk8. I know this isn’t the end of the world, but I just can’t believe how much these 3 C-'s are coming back to haunt me. If nothing else, I can retake the classes and hope the old ones get overlooked or something like that, but Haas will hopefully see that prior to the military I had these C-'s, and after it, I had a 3.8 GPA.</p>
<p>On my priority list is speaking with my counselor at my CC and getting to Haas and speaking with a pre-admissions advisors. Luckily I have time to <em>try</em> and get this straightened out.</p>
<p>If worse comes to worse, add a few more classes in fall to try and boost my grade more.</p>
<p>There may be what one might call a statute of limitations on these old courses. I just don’t know. But all in all, just forge ahead. Your career after that is very strong. It’s just a pain, I know…</p>
Holy sh*t I took 16 units this semester and barely attained a 4.0, so I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to take 12-18 credits over summer and maintain your GPA! Be careful, but major kudos if you pull it off!
@rojogaleana12 I didn’t consider that summer classes were shorter/more condensed, so I’d probably take a class or two less than planned, but the key is that they would obviously be easy classes to fill some breadth requirements.
Also have to consider that comparing one 16 credit schedule to another is kind of tough. You have to factor what classes are being taken. Me, for example, I haven’t taken anything all that rigorous and won’t really need to take anything too crazy before UCB. I did 13 credits this semester and got great grades with minimal effort, so another class or two on top of that, depending on the classes, would have been extremely easy. Again, I’m not talking calculus, organic chemistry, or anything like that … it would be a lot of fluff classes to boost my GPA, and some pre-reqs for Haas/UCB.
In the meantime, I need to figure out what to do with these three damned 10+ year old C-'s.
My experience from back in the day was that humanities classes were easier in the summer. My daughter took two about a year ago and said they were much easier. Plus, several of her friends said the same thing. But these were humanities courses. STEM would be very difficult. But you grab a good prof at rate my professor, I wouldn’t worry too much about humanities. IMHO.