GPA from undergraduate degree/TESU?

[dfrecore]

I think there's a mistake made in the GPA thing.

1) When you transfer to TESU, they will not bring your GPA over. So the only GPA you will have at TESU is the credits you take there - and that might mean just the capstone course.

2) When you apply for a MA program, the school will bring over all of your transcripts, including the GPA's, from all of the schools you've gone to - where they will see ALL of your graded courses. They will compute your GPA using all of those graded credits.

It looks like you think that since you're transferring to TESU, that it means that your old GPA is wiped out - that is NOT the case at all, it just means that TESU won't "transfer" it over to their program. Don't worry, you won't have lost anything.

Regarding not having "enough" graded credits, or the grad school seeing that some (or a lot) of your credits are ungraded, it depends on the grad school. Some won't care, some will. Some will want a certain minimum number of graded credits (like 30 or 60). I say, if you want a M.Ed from a particular school, then you need to check with them to see what they want, and work backwards from there. If you don't care where you go for the M.Ed, and just want to do your BA as quickly/cheaply as possible, and then you'll figure out which M.Ed you can get based on who accepts you in their program, then you're fine testing completely out at TESU.

Also, there are people on this forum with many test-out ungraded credits who go on to highly regarded programs at schools all the time. So I think you're fine to do the test-out method.