sweetgirl_19 Wrote:Great discussion so far! All this feedback about master's degrees is encouraging to me as a young person. So...the "weird" distance learning people actually can, and DO make it in the real world...wow .

Any suggestions for a "babe in the woods" aspiring for higher education (i.e. Masters, Ph.D)? Spec., any ideas of how a GPA works with Thomas Edison? Would a tradational college take my GPA from Thomas Edison courses ONLY, or is the GPA also calculated from my CLEPS/DANTES scores? Any and all ideas, comments, and suggestions would be welcome!

[SIZE="4"]Your GPA is calculated by your courses, not the tests. A pass is a pass for the tests (even TESC's TECEPs) so no letter grade is administered and does not go toward your GPA. And, I hadn't heard that the DANTES are letter-graded. They do give you a "this is what your score would look like" grade though. But anyways, pass the tests, but excel in your courses--especially if you only take a few. [/SIZE]

LuBee Wrote:That's if you can get into an Ivy. My daughter did all the right things, had 2300 out of 2400 on her SATs, took all APs this year, straight As, has her Girl Scout Gold Award, is a Lt Gov in Key Club, her high school's most distinquished student, mock trial, raises funds for the Childrens Specialized Hosp, is an artist that went to Gov school for the arts, and the list goes on and on. Yet she was wait-listed or rejected at Ivys she applied to. The competition these days is HUGE. One Ivy admits to giving extra weight to certain areas that my daughter doesn't fit into, such as alumni connections, athletics and minority.

So that discussion on that other forum really was not in reality when some posters talked about needing a big name education. There are only limited spaces in those colleges. So what do employers do? Only hire the limited number of alumni from Ivys? Of course not.

Anyway, the one poster that started that thread seemed to me as though he was one of those that tries to stir things up, as one of the other posters suggested.

AGS Wrote:your daughter probably would be accepted by some school out of the country like London School of Economics or Oxford....

which I wouldnt be surprised....


besides some of those foriegn british schools show more weight than harvard or yale combined with this new globalized society of the future...

I had read there were 3 prominent members of the British parliament that attended the London University Extension School ...which is the oldest distance education school in the world ....

harvard and yale are really "good ole boys" schools that cater to a specific class of people .... and accept a few people here and there.....so its like winning the lottery ...I am pretty disappointed because its not taking people out of merit but only from connection....

And if your dad is an alumni that gives the school big donations.....
chances are you will get in the school ..those are my guesses....

abby Wrote:[SIZE="4"]Your GPA is calculated by your courses, not the tests. A pass is a pass for the tests (even TESC's TECEPs) so no letter grade is administered and does not go toward your GPA. And, I hadn't heard that the DANTES are letter-graded [/SIZE]

Kiwi Lover Wrote:Abby,

Actually, the DANTES exams do get counted toward your GPA, even though they only list your score (and not a letter grade) on the official score report. Whether your score equates to an "A", "B" or "C" depends on the requirements of your particular college. For example, I scored a 69 on DANTES Organizational Behavior, which is an "A" at Excelsior. However, at another college, that could equal a "B". So we definitely want to get as high a score as we can on the DANTES exams.

Hope that helps!

JoAnne

[SIZE="3"]Thanks, JoAnne. No one ever mentioned that little fact to me. hmm. well now I'm not so sure I'll get the 4.0 I thought I would. :eek: oh well. life is life. [/SIZE]