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05-08-2008, 12:11 AM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
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| new GPA every time you change schools? (LSA, engin, ross, etc)
Posting this for a friend. She is planning to transfer out of engineering to LSA. I've heard somewhere that your GPA starts over at 0 when you switch schools. Is this true? | 
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05-08-2008, 01:47 AM
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#2 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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| I don't think that's accurate. If you transfer from another university, your GPA starts from scratch. But transfering from one college to another within the same university should not reset one's GPA. | |
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05-08-2008, 02:49 AM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Posts: 308
| GPA's reset when starting Ross... I came from LSA and I started Ross with a fresh GPA | |
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05-12-2008, 12:36 AM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 64
| What about LSA to Engineering? Especially if I plan on getting a dual degree? WOuld I have to seperate GPA's? | |
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05-12-2008, 04:21 PM
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#5 | | Member
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| Yeah it resets with Ross. Not sure about CoE but I would assume they do the same thing. | |
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05-17-2008, 04:58 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
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| So wait, lets say I enter UMich as a Econ major in LSA and then transfer to CoE at the end of freshman year while getting a BSe in CS and a BS in Econ. How will my GPA be calculated since I will be in both CoE and LSA? | |
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05-17-2008, 08:21 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Michigan
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| You can't be part of COE and LSA at the same time. | |
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05-18-2008, 02:40 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 64
| Thanks bennis, that makes more sense on how GPA is calculated then. | |
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05-18-2008, 03:40 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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| Quote: |
You can't be part of COE and LSA at the same time.
| Yes, you can. And no, your GPA is not reset. The only exception to this rule is entering Ross. Even there, it doesn't always happen - if you are a LSA / Ross double major you keep your incoming GPA once you enter Ross. | 
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05-18-2008, 04:55 PM
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#10 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Michigan
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| Ah, didn't even think about those that double major. Sorry =P | |
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05-18-2008, 08:43 PM
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#11 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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| Tetrahedron is 100% correct.
Besides, one's cummulative GPA will not change, regardless of how many colleges they attended within the university. A Ross student may have a Ross GPA that imcludes grades from Sophomore through Senior years, but Freshman year will still be added to the cummulative GPA by employeers and graduate school adcoms. | |
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05-18-2008, 11:47 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,517
| All grades received in one college should transfer over to the other college. So if you have a 3.5 and 32 credits earned at U-M, you should have a 3.5 and 32 credits in LS&A. AP / test credits are a little bit different. I lost 4 credits for Calc BC when moving to CoE, but I got 8 foreign language credits after transferring. | |
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