Feeling Pressure to Enroll, Advice Needed!

[dfrecore]

That's right, I recommend doing the "failed" courses again to bring up the GPA.  It's not the BA you're after, we can get something at the Big 3 just for the sake of checking the box that you have a Bachelors and using courses at TESU to bring up the GPA just a tad bit... However, It's the Masters that will look at the last 30-60 undergrad credits for admissions to any competitive entry program.  

It won't really matter if the majority of your credits to the Big 3 are alternative-test-out credits, they will still look at "some" sort of GPA from graded RA credits.  You can boost that GPA significantly by getting rid of the F's...  The only way to do it is to redo the course... I would really speak with admissions to the MS Counselling program and ask specifically about GPA.

Not every MA program is competitive, especially for the MSW.  I would definitely contact the programs you're looking at and see if you truly need to redo those courses.  Especially if you don't live in the state where you took the courses in the first place, or the school no longer offers some, or doesn't have online for those courses, or something like that - not everyone is in a position to go back to the original school and repeat courses.  I certainly wouldn't spend a lot of time and money on them; your time would be better spent taking courses or researching MSW programs.