<p>Next year my GPA doesn't transfer, as is the case with most transfers. Since I am a freshman and have another three years ahead of me at WashU, is the GPA I got at my old school really... important? I ask because there was an error with one of the grades I got in one of my classes spring semester, and the dispute process is an ordeal to go through. I got a 3.7 instead of a 4.0 which -really- isn't a big deal and lowers my cumulative GPA by a whopping .03. While I'm frustrated I didn't get the grade I mathematically deserved, I really don't want to have to go through the hassle of meetings and paperwork and possibly end up with the same grade and I really don't think it's that big of a deal.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it annnthony. I had a couple grades like that last semester. A- instead of an A and a B+ instead of an A-. I’m also going to WashU and I’m not gonna really worry about it. Though for graduate schools, they use all transcripts to calculate your GPA, only your WashU GPA is gonna count for your WashU transcript and latin honors etc.</p>
<p>If you think that the difference between 3.7 and 4.0 is “a whopping .03”, then perhaps you did get the grade you “mathematically deserved”. Just staying…</p>
<p>he said it lowers his cumulative by .03…if he got a 4.0 his first semester, this is true</p>
<p>lol, turns out that drek’thar is the actual idiot.</p>
<p>GPAs from different schools do not mix, Sherlock. So, OP’s “cumulative GPA” is his WashU GPA. And since the OP is a freshman, there is no way that a 3.7 in the Spring brought his “cumulative GPA” down by .03, unless he took like 9 times more units in the Fall than in the Spring.</p>
<p>I haven’t gone to WashU yet, so my cumulative GPA contains the grades from my first two semesters of college, which were spent at one school. There is only one grade in question, worth 3 of my 32.5 credits accumulated at that school, and when it is raised from a 3.7 to a 4.0, my cumulative GPA increases .03. Xfer and ajay are on the ball with this one.</p>
<p>Either way, I mailed all my stuff in and am having a conversation with the head of the department early next week over the phone… or in person when I go to withdraw from the university.</p>
<p>lol… come on Drek, given his info: </p>
<p>GPA sem. 1 = 3.76
Cumulative = 3.76 </p>
<p>GPA sem. 2 = 3.70
Cumulative = 3.73 </p>
<p>0.03 difference in cumulative… </p>
<p>If school weights 4, 3.7, 3.3, 3, etc, then: </p>
<p>sem. 1 =
3 cred. x 1 class = A
3 cred. x 4 class = A-
= 3.76</p>
<p>sem 2=
3 cred. x 5 class = A-
= 3.70 </p>
<p>even if the weights were 4, 3.66, 3.33, etc… the results can still be replicated almost to the tee, ad infinitum. Come on, drek</p>
<p>Thankkk you, Treebounders.</p>
<p>What doesn’t make sense is how you went from a 4 to a 3.7 with one class. Was it a 6 credit class? Did the error knock you from an A to a C- (3 cred class)? If that was the case, then I would definitely press the issue if I were you.</p>
<p>Oh man. I never had a 4.0 cumulative GPA. </p>
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<p>That is nearly my problem. My GPA this semester should be exactly the same as last semester’s, but because of the 3.7 instead of a 4.0, the cumulative GPA for the whole year went down .03.</p>
<p>In drek’thar’s attempt to be snarky and rude for absolutely no reason, he has been officially pwned.</p>
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<p>If the OP had 3.76 in the Fall, this thread would not exist, since there would be absolutely no reason to make a fuss over 3.7 in the Spring, as his Spring performance would be totally in line with his performance in the Fall. Either way, it doesn’t matter, since it turns out that the OP is not “a freshman” at WashU, as he wrote in the OP.</p>
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<p>Just leave, moron.</p>
<p>soooooooo annnthony, you going to the transfer weekend at WashU?</p>
<p>If you plan on going to grad school I’d dispute it. I got a B+ in a class my frosh spring semester, but based on my calculations I had a A-. And when I asked my advisor if it was worth it as my GPA is reset by transferring to the school and she said if I was going to apply to a grad school then it was worth it. It likely won’t make or break you, but it’s best to go in with the best stats possible and a glance at your undergrad transcripts and seeing an A over a B is going to look better even if it doesn’t make that much difference, and besides if you earnt a A-, then you should want to receive that grade.</p>
<p>Now, that I read more of this thread, it does not make a lot of sense to me. How come you need the dispute process if your grade was merely miscalculated, as you say. As far as I know, in cases of grade miscalculation, all you need to do is to email your prof and to point out that s/he did not take into account all of your points. Your prof will then recalculate your grade and submit the corrected one to the registrar.</p>
<p>I emailed my prof, had an absolute failure of a conversation with him, my last reply was replied to with an auto-response saying “In Montana until July 1st.” and then Academic Services and the Registrar sent me to the department head. So now my teacher is on a preserve for another three weeks and the department head will be adjusting my grade (or not) based on what she sees. Given what’s in the packet I mailed her, I don’t know how the grade couldn’t get altered, but I’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>And yes, Ajay, I’ll be at Transfer Weekend. Well, hopefully… I don’t think I actually have a flight booked yet.</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the help. Hopefully this will go over well.</p>