Capstone requirement change at TESU

[davewill]

I have some bad grades from a community college from about 20 years ago. There might be an "academic forgiveness policy" at that college that allows you to erase your old record but I am not 100% sure. 

I planned on just not submitting those records to TESU. I don't want my GPA to get wrecked because of these old classes. Will TESU still find out about these old classes even if I don't submit any transcripts for it? The classes would not map to anything in my degree plan anyways other than possibly free electives. My plan is just to submit my ACE transcript and leave it at that. Will I be facing any issues with TESU?

Yeah, I'm afraid so. They will require you to send all of your transcripts before they will let you graduate. Your previous school attendance will likely be recorded at the National Student Clearinghouse, which TESU will check before approving your graduation. However, TESU doesn't include your previous coursework in their GPA, and I think the worst that happens if your outside GPA is below 2.0 is that they refuse to transfer courses where you got less than a "C" until the transfer courses DO make the 2.0 GPA requirement. If your previous GPA is at least 2.0, then you have no issue at all.

Go ahead and send the old transcripts.