What should I do in this situation?

[ns808]

I am a sophomore in community college and I already have 4 C's on my transcript that are holding down my GPA. However, my statistics grade which is one of the C's was originally a D, but my professor rounded it. I want to email him and ask him to give me the D so I can repeat and then petition for a higher grade and raise my GPA up a little but, and this semester I am receiving a 4.0 and that will help as well.

I want to apply to the CSULB nursing program and my gpa for the 4 GE classes are A in speech, B in English, B in critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning which is my stat class is a C which brings me to a 2.92 GPA and I need 3.0 in the GE section and science section to apply. My science GPA will be a 3.6 and if I retake my stat and get an A my GE gpa will go up to 3.5 which will get me in the running. I was wondering if I should email my teacher and ask him to give me the D or I should stick with the C and disqualify for CSULB and apply elsewhere. I asked someone from the CSULB nursing department via email and she said that repeats do not factor. So they don't care about repeats as long as the grade is a passing grade.

Should I bother repeating? or should I just take the C? What would you do?

[mamagui]

Mmmm, I would double check and make sure that repeats are not factored in. In my experience, there are always a few people at any given school that seem to be clueless about admissions policies and graduation requirements. This information should be published either on the website and/ or in their handbook. Also, if you ever decide to pursue more education, you should be aware that most schools DO factor in repeats and that could hurt your overall GPA. If it were me in this situation, I think that I would take the C and take an extra semester of gen-ed type courses that are not too challenging but still useful to help raise your overall GPA. If you would like, post a link to the program that you are interested in and I'll check and see if I can find any details about their GPA and retake policy.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

Some schools factor-in repeats, and in some, repeats wipe out what they repeat.

For most schools, for an instructor to change a grade, he has to submit a form that explains the reason for the change. I can't see many submitting a form to lower a grade...