Universities That Don't Have GPAs

[MIDNJAC]

UCSC doesn't do grades (at least they didn't used to). They gave you the option of a more standard system on our transcript for situations like this. Ask your registrar's office.

My wife has a childhood friend that went there. I think she spent her freshman year living in a teepee, and then realized that the stress from school and the man and his grading system was too much, and dropped out. Last I saw her, she was borrowing her parent's Honda Hybrid (at age 28) to crate roadkill home to her commune in Eugene. She actually looked much like my avatar back in the day, not so much now.

 

[Brett327]

My wife has a childhood friend that went there. I think she spent her freshman year living in a teepee, and then realized that the stress from school and the man and his grading system was too much, and dropped out. Last I saw her, she was borrowing her parent's Honda Hybrid (at age 28) to crate roadkill home to her commune in Eugene. She actually looked much like my avatar back in the day, not so much now.

Life can take some unexpected turns, oftentimes for the worse. My bother did his first two undergrad years at UCSC before moving on to Cal. I spent a couple summers down there with him. It was certainly a horizon broadening experience for 13 year old Brett. It was actually a really cool place and my bother thinks the quality of education and faculty was better there than at Cal. That said, he did turn into a kooky leftist college prof, so caveat emptor.

 

[MIDNJAC]

It's a beautiful place.....it's like a beautiful bastard child of OR and socal all wrapped into one place.

 

[Brett327]

It's a beautiful place.....it's like a beautiful bastard child of OR and socal all wrapped into one place.

Complete with a lovely piece of "modern" art which is colloquially known as "The Flying I.U.D." How's that for an aviation segue?

What percent get... Oh nevermind.

 

[sodajones]

Ah Eugene. 15 square miles surrounded by reality. The only place I've been spit on and called a "baby killer." I had a full ride offered to me at U of O and I turned it down just so that I didn't have to live in Eugene.

 

[Pags]

Life can take some unexpected turns, oftentimes for the worse. My bother did his first two undergrad years at UCSC before moving on to Cal. I spent a couple summers down there with him. It was certainly a horizon broadening experience for 13 year old Brett. It was actually a really cool place and my bother thinks the quality of education and faculty was better there than at Cal. That said, he did turn into a kooky leftist college prof, so caveat emptor.

Go Banana Slugs!

 

[Salty]

Might've actually found a way to get a GPA out of this. They technically don't give out GPAs, but there were tests and homework scores. Luckily the scores still show up on TaskStream and I still have most of the Prometric test results. Would it be acceptable to just add them all up, convert them to an out of 4 scale and submit that as my GPA?

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Might've actually found a way to get a GPA out of this. They technically don't give out GPAs, but there were tests and homework scores. Luckily the scores still show up on TaskStream and I still have most of the Prometric test results. Would it be acceptable to just add them all up, convert them to an out of 4 scale and submit that as my GPA?

NRC requires something on the schools letterhead showing how they would estimate the GPA.

 

[Salty]

What school is,this if you don't mind me asking.

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Sorry, missed this reply. It's Western Governors University.
Here's the explanation letter I received. There's also something akin to this on the back of the transcripts. Would it be possible to just put 3.0 or calculate the total myself with this attached? Or am I SOL?

 

[Swanee]

Sorry, missed this reply. It's Western Governors University.
Here's the explanation letter I received. There's also something akin to this on the back of the transcripts. Would it be possible to just put 3.0 or calculate the total myself with this attached? Or am I SOL?

Have you been fucking reading the replies in this god damn thread at all?!


I'm drunk and I can still understand what the people above you have said what you should do; one of which is an current AD officer recruiter....

 

[Salty]

Have you been fucking reading the replies in this god damn thread at all?!


I'm drunk and I can still understand what the people above you have said what you should do; one of which is an current AD officer recruiter....

I understand what they said... Thing is they won't estimate the GPA for me since their stance is that they don't official assign them at all. The grading explanation is pretty much all I can get out of them. I was just wondering if it would be acceptable to use the grading explanation and calculate it myself. The only other suggestion I see is to ask for a letter similar to the one attached. I'm sorry if I missed anything else that was mentioned.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Sorry, missed this reply. It's Western Governors University.
Here's the explanation letter I received. There's also something akin to this on the back of the transcripts. Would it be possible to just put 3.0 or calculate the total myself with this attached? Or am I SOL?

you are pretty much SOL, even if the school put in writing that FN, LN had achieved a 3.0 from WGU you would then have a marginal GPA from an online school that are normally listed as tier 5

 

[Brett327]

Any school who can't (or won't) generate some kind of a GPA equivalent for their graduates in a world where the vast majority of HR departments and other hiring authorities are expecting a GPA as a means of sizing up their pool of applicants is doing their students a great disservice. It's a completely illegitimate way of doing business, IMO, and should be disclosed to prospective students when they're applying to these schools.

"Hey, here's your degree. BTW, it's going to be essentially worthless for 75% of the places that might hire you for a job."

I would be fucking furious and DEMAND that the school provide you with something. I would threaten them with legal action, bad press, etc. I would address the issue with their accredidation authority as well. You paid good money for a degree. Get what you're due.

 

[Jim123]

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I agree with the sentiment, but as useful a tool as transcripts are to rack-and-stack diploma-holding graduates, I have a feeling that accreditation sidesteps the GPA issue and largely boils down to whether the minimum standards behind earning those diplomas are legitimate.

(Hopefully for me, accreditation has nothing at all to do with one's ability to inadvertently create complex, rambling, run-on sentences. )

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I agree with the sentiment, but as useful a tool as transcripts are to rack-and-stack diploma-holding graduates, I have a feeling that accreditation sidesteps the GPA issue and largely boils down to whether the minimum standards behind earning those diplomas are legitimate.

(Hopefully for me, accreditation has nothing at all to do with one's ability to inadvertently create complex, rambling, run-on sentences. )

I have sat next to many employers at career fairs, for those with no work experience, GPA is the way to get you foot in the door, I have heard many comments from these employers about this, essentially if there is no GPA listed on a resume' it is perceived the person is hiding something.