Charter Oak / Straighterline / Grades

[cookderosa]

I’m not really sure why there big focus on getting these classes onto a COSC transcript with a letter grade. That will not help your COSC GPA in any way. COSC GPA is calculated from taking COSC classes. If you only take the Cornerstone and Capstone courses then those are the only courses that will affect your GPA. Transfer credit grades do not help or hurt your COSC GPA. I know this from experience and it’s clearly stated in the college’s catalog: https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...ns/gpa.php

If you’re doing it for grad school, “You must have X GPA for your last X graded courses”, you run into the same issues that schools have with the credit banks: they will want to look at and evaluate the transfer credit from the source, not just take COSC’s word for it. They will then make a decision on whether it counts as a letter grade or is P/F.

Maybe you might impress an employer or something, but I don’t see how this helps or hinders academically. If it doesn’t change your institutional or career GPA, and grad schools may not accept the letter grade COSC issues then why bother? Am I missing something here? Why is this a big deal for people? This is a genuine, not rhetorical question, because I feel like I’m missing something here.

I wouldn't put this in the "big deal" category, but I would argue that it's *nice* to have graded credits on a transcript regardless of whether or not they are needed.  

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Huh?  I'm confused.  What is your question for me?

I was just pointing out reasons why stating motivations were important to cut down on confusion. I used you as an example because you were the OP. My point was that since you didn’t clearly state your rationale in this thread for wanting letter grades vs pass/fail that people might make their own inferences about why you were doing it. 

Like you said above, you think grades are nice, and that’s cool. I was beginning to legitimately think I was missing something for a moment there. I am about to re-enroll and I didn’t want to find out about something too late if it would have benefited me.

OH! Ok, I understand now. Thank you!
Honest to goodness, I couldn't care less lol - it was just fun to do. My own motivations or my son's are so irrelevant. I love sharing things I find b/c others may find it useful (or not) but that's the kind of nerdy stuff I like to learn and share just for kicks. If you read through my posts, you won't find me telling people what to do, and unless they are creepy stalkers, the reasons *I* might do something / not do something really shouldn't matter too much in their life.