GPA

[RDESTES]

So I am about to graduate from my LPN program in April and I found a LPN to BSN program. I've been talking to an advisor at the school and getting my paper work ready for the spring semester but I'm wondering how they are going to calculate my GPA. The way they base their acceptance is on a points scale. You get so many points for your score on the HESI, so many points for your interview, 0.5 points extra if you have 380 hours of patient care experience, and so many points for your GPA. But I will have GPA(s) coming from 3 different colleges. One from where I did most of my undergrad work, one from where I completed my LPN, and one from where I am going to finish up my required classes to get into this program. Does anyone know how they figure up a GPA when you have multiple school transcripts? And whose grading scale they go by? Because in my LPN school anything lower than an 80 is failing but at the school I'm applying to its not failing unless its a 66 or lower.

[WookieeRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Do you trascripts list letter grades or numeric grades? They will most likely take all of your transcript letter grades and assign the GPA using the normal formula.

[Phoenix16, RN, MSN]

This what I know for a fact; I am an LPN who have transferred credits from a previous college to the one I am currently attending. Massasoit CC RN program in MA uses a rubric which determines who gets in. Even though when I look at my transcript from MCC "T" is next to all the classes I transferred, on the rubric they give me the points of the actual transfer grade.

Here is an example of their rubric and I hope it helps to answer your question.

their rubric is as follows

Courses Points earned

A&P1 A=5

A-=4.5

B+ =4

B =3.5

B- =3

C+=2.5

C=2

Even though I transferred this class to MCC, I earned 4.5 because my grade was an A-. Hope this clears things up for you.