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Ok guys, I'm having a miserable day. I'm going to give you the basics to this issue, but spare you some of the emotion because this topic depresses me so I think if I get it off my chest quickly it will be less painful.
I had a double major in college. Rocked one major, screwed up the other. I don't have a degree in the latter due to too low of a GPA. I cannot retake classes because my school only averages the new grade and the old grade together, so even if I were to approach it seriously (which I know that I am fully capable of doing) I couldn't come out well from the deal. What would be the ideal way to get that degree? Transfer as much credit as I can and finish it at a different school? Is there some sort of educational credit loop-hole that someone has used? I would absolutely take the classes over again to prove that I can learn the material, but if I got a D in a class 4 years ago and take it again for an A, I will NOT accept a "C" for the class. That is not fair to me, having learned the material completely. Thanks for any help!!
P.S. I graduated with the former degree 2 years ago. I am looking to complete the second degree for some serious peace-of-mind. This issue weighs very heavily on me and I really do not know the best way to approach it
I had a double major in college. Rocked one major, screwed up the other. I don't have a degree in the latter due to too low of a GPA. I cannot retake classes because my school only averages the new grade and the old grade together, so even if I were to approach it seriously (which I know that I am fully capable of doing) I couldn't come out well from the deal. What would be the ideal way to get that degree? Transfer as much credit as I can and finish it at a different school? Is there some sort of educational credit loop-hole that someone has used? I would absolutely take the classes over again to prove that I can learn the material, but if I got a D in a class 4 years ago and take it again for an A, I will NOT accept a "C" for the class. That is not fair to me, having learned the material completely. Thanks for any help!!
P.S. I graduated with the former degree 2 years ago. I am looking to complete the second degree for some serious peace-of-mind. This issue weighs very heavily on me and I really do not know the best way to approach it
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You've got three options.
1) They're not just going to let you pull over your good credits and leave the bad, to take over, because that's not really fair. However, they may let you use some of the new schools academic forgivenesses to retake the classes. At my college you got 3.
2) Go to a new school, start from scratch/only transfer your core and just retake roughly 60 hours
3) If the second major has a masters program, get a masters in the second major. You don't have to have a bachelors in a specific degree to get a masters in that degree (In most cases, not all) you just have to have specific classes in the degree. For example, my degree was in crim, with a minor in psych, so I can totally get a masters in psych if I want to, or business, or computer science, sicne I've been a network technician for the last three years and could pass any standards test.
Anyone else?