Feeling Pressure to Enroll, Advice Needed!

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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.

Thanks for the reply. 

Perhaps the solution could be to apply for an academic renewal to wipe the bad semester out. According to http://onlinecatalog.nku.edu/content.php...ic-renewal, I could enroll, complete 12 hours (of courses I would need anyway for BA Psych), then apply for the renewal. 

REALLY wish my younger self knew what a mess I was creating!

The problem with academic renewal is that the school takes the grades out of the GPA calculation - but I'm not 100% certain the schools you transfer to would do the same, since they're left on the transcript.

Also, you have to remove the entire semester, rather than specific courses - so if you got some decent/good grades in a semester mixed with bad grades, you lose EVERYTHING for the semester.  So you need to weight if it's worth doing at all.

Repeating a course would be the actual course you took at that school - but that normally does a better job of "erasing" particular courses.

More research is definitely needed for the master's program, since that will be the thing you have an issue with.  Last time I looked, the MSW program a friend was interested in did not require a high GPA, and was not competitive.  You will want to see what the status is at the school you're considering, figure out if you need a Psych degree or if you can just get a BALS, and ask about how the academic renewal program at the original school would work at their school because usually, master's programs calculate the GPA themselves.