<p>Full disclosure makes you look like a mature applicant who takes responsibility for their mistakes.</p>
<p>Lack of disclosure, if undiscovered, is neutral.</p>
<p>Lack of disclosure, if discovered, is potentially very damaging.</p>
<p>I am in a similar position. I took 3 courses this summer term a guest student at another institution. I had an emergency that did not allow me to complete these courses due to due the nature of the emergency, which involved me leaving town for the semester. After getting back from dealing with everything I petitioned for a term withdrawal but did not get it approved, only given a letter of condolence… Either way, I did apply for financial aid and received it; however, I am still in the grace period in which I can return the rewarded money and declare it as not accepted. I work full time and am blessed to have the means of paying for the course without financial aid. </p>
<p>My question for all is would I have to report this transcript to graduate programs? If I chose not to, will they find out if they look at my financial aid paperwork, despite the fact that I may have rejected financial aid form the guest institution? Please advise accordingly and honestly. I do not care for an argument, rather facts.</p>
<p>P.S. I apologize for the terrible grammar and spelling. My computer is on the verge of running out of batteries and I am at a coffee shop miles from my apartment. Thank you all ahead of time.</p>
<p>Yup. Report it. They might not see the fin. aid part (though likely they will), but if that institution is in the system, it could come to hurt you later on if you don’t.</p>
<p>Pardon me for not knowing, but would you ellaborate on what you mean by “the system?”</p>
<p>^^It’s called Clearhouse database. It’s a national online database that holds information of every school that the student has attended. </p>
<p>So, if you were to search yourself, you would find every single history of all the school you’ve attended in your lifetime.</p>
<p>Wonderful to hear I’m screwed for grad school due to one dumb summer…</p>
<p>^^You do realize you can do Academic renewal by the time you’re ready for grad school…</p>
<p>Even if it is at an institution I no longer attend? How would I go about doing so and with whome would I apply for an Academic Renewal? I hold a degree from a major university and these courses were taken at a different school after I had graduated from my home university.</p>
<p>Yes, it doesn’t matter if its an old school that you only attended once along time ago. You can still file a petition for academic renewal regardless, just go to the admissions office of that school and follow the procedure.</p>
<p>Wonderful. Will it remove all low grades >2.0 after 2 years from the GPA calculation?</p>
<p>Yes, it will remove any grades (Below C’s) that you have requested to remove. But you have to specifically request the class and its grade to be removed.</p>
<p>Be aware that academic renewal policies vary from school to school and some schools do not make academic renewal easy or even possible. For instance I wanted to do academic renewal for a couple quarters I spent at a CSU awhile back. Turns out they only grant academic renewal to current students who are applying for graduation, and even then it will be granted only if the student has a GPA too low to graduate without it. I would definitely dig into that specific schools policies before you get your hopes up, especially since virtually all academic renewal policies require 2-5 years to elapse and it sounds like you just took those classes.</p>