Switching programs = purging old credits

[marianne202]

I didn't have any D's on my transcript, but I had a few C's from my first year at EC. When I changed my degree from nursing to LA I didn't realize I could drop them. I wish EC would tell you this and give you the option. But I did find out when I graduated with my AS that when I applied for my BS I could do this. So I dropped 2 C's from my first nursing exams. I didn't have to make up the first one because I already had too many Health Science credits, but the second one was worth 5 credits, but now I'm 2 credits short of HSE, so I had to wrestle with whether it was worth removing it to raise my GPA but have to add another exam or just leave it. I decided to remove it because I didn't want it on the transcript for Grad school. I'm amazed at how little removing those 10 credits of C actually raised my GPA. But I feel better without them on my BS transcript. I think EC could do a better job of letting students know they have this option or I would have removed them before I finished my AS degree.