USC GPA calculation - please help!

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm applying to USC for Fall '11 and I made a mistake on my GPA calculation. I didn't included the first grade I received on a repeated course. This is what USC says regarding transfer GPA: </p>

<p>"Determining Your Transfer and USC GPA
For the admission decision, all grades in USC transferable courses (including grades of "D+" and below) are calculated into the grade point average (GPA). USC takes into account plus/minus grading. Incompletes and missing grades from your transfer institution are treated as an “F.” Credit/No Credit and Pass/No Pass marks are not included in the transfer GPA.</p>

<p>If you repeat a transferable course, each grade earned in that course will be used to calculate the transfer GPA for admission. Further, USC does not honor academic renewal or academic forgiveness programs that allow students to improve recorded substandard academic performance."</p>

<p>I have two questions. When I'm adding the course that I repeated, I count in the old grade and the new grade (for a 5-unit course taken twice), but only count both of those as 5 units so that the 1st time would count as zero units? </p>

<p>Also, it says they take into account plus/minus grading. Does that mean A+= 4.3? My current college uses plus/minus grading too but A+s are not extra points..</p>

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<p>Huh, is this a USC supplement? While I thought many schools recompute GPAs, I thought the admissions office does that?</p>

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<p>No it’s not. They ask for your GPA at the beginning of the app but I skipped it and went on. Does anyone else have any advice? </p>

<p>If what you’re saying is correct, then I should just put my GPA as is and they will recompute it? That seems to make sense…</p>

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Could someone help me out. So I’m looking to transfer to USC and I have some trouble figuring out how they would calculate my GPA. Do they look at my entire transcript and figure my GPA from their or do they look at the courses that are only transferable. My GPA including non-transferable courses is 3.515 my GPA with only transferable courses is 3.8. Which would they see?