<p>I’ve posted here once before regarding a year I spent at a school where I received a very poor GPA my first year. Since transferring to a CCC, I’ve earned a 3.9 over 30 units. However, I still have 27 units of work from the original college that works out to about a 2.5 GPA for those classes.</p>
<p>I’m currently attending Chaffey College. Chaffey’s academic renewal policy does apply to work completed at another institution, which seems to be rare among community colleges. I’m trying to figure out how my final GPA will end up if I’m successful in petitioning for academic renewal.</p>
<p>Chaffey’s policy, as explained in its catalog, includes the following section:
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<p>My understanding is that, typically, academic renewal only applies to D or F grades. I had a few Ds and an F, but a lot of my grades were Cs and Bs. Frankly, considering I’ve received nearly all As in my community college classes (the sole B was in an online business class where I couldn’t take an exam because of technical difficulties), I’d prefer to simply disregard all 27 units from my original institution.
I can interpret that section of Chaffey’s policy in a general way, in the sense that all work completed during a disregarded semester will not be counted in the student’s GPA, even if there is, say, an A. This would make sense to me–the theory behind academic renewal is that an circumstance–an illness, death in the family, depression, an extreme bout of laziness–prevented the student from completing work to his or her potential. If that’s the case, the entire semester would be “tainted,” in a sense. If students were allowed to disregard only the bad grades, keeping the good ones, that would present an unfair advantage to them.</p>
<p>I can also read it as speaking more specifically to the required number of units for graduation–that is, the 27 units from my original institution would not count toward the 60 required to receive an AA or AS degree, but any Cs or better would be included in the GPA. To me, this seems unfair to the student. I understand that a C is passing, but I don’t think that Cs should be counted any more than I think As should be.</p>
<p>The logical way, as I see it, would be for the school to allow the student to disregard two semesters of work in their entirety, making it as if they never occurred from the perspective of GPA and unit requirements. The courses would still be included on the transcript, of course, but would effectively be erased.</p>
<p>So… Does anyone know how this works? </p>
<p>Here’s a link to the academic policies section of Chaffey’s catalog:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.chaffey.edu/schedule/cat_09-10_academic.pdf[/url]”>http://www.chaffey.edu/schedule/cat_09-10_academic.pdf</a></p>