<p>I am a student at one of the top 10 schools studying Economics. I’ve gotten a B and a B- in upper-level econ classes and would like to retake them. How would having these courses appear twice on the transcript affect admission to ph.D programs? (Let’s say I get A’s on both the second time around) Otherwise my GPA is about 3.8.</p>
<p>You can have the old grades expunged. They never happened.</p>
<p>Right, but the schools would know that I’ve taken the course twice for whatever reason. How does that reflect on my academic performance if I were to apply to top 10 schools?</p>
<h1>expunge - strike: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; “Please strike this remark from the record”; “scratch that remark”</h1>
<p>wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn</p>
<h1>expunging - expunction: deletion by an act of expunging or erasing</h1>
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<h1>Expungement - In the common law legal system, an expungement proceeding is a type of lawsuit in which the subject of a prior criminal investigation or proceeding seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed or destroyed, thereby restoring the subject’s name. …</h1>
<p>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expungement</p>
<h1>expungement - the act of expunging or something expunged; the process by which the record of a criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed</h1>
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<h1>expunge - To erase or strike out; To eliminate completely; annihilate; To completely remove leaving no trace; To completely erase a file, document or directory from a computer system</h1>
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<h1>Expunging an Rmail file or Dired buffer is an operation that truly discards the messages or files you have previously flagged for deletion.</h1>
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<h1>expungement - a court ordered judgment entry that is requested by the individual in order to seal the record of a criminal conviction. …</h1>
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<h1>The contents of the court record are purged. This often happens as part of an agreement when a person is sentenced - if the person completes …</h1>
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<h1>expungement - Official and formal erasure of a record or partial contents of a record</h1>
<h1>expunge - To clear, erase, seal, or destroy</h1>
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<h1>expunge - A motion by which action is deleted from the Journal; ie, “Expunge the record.”</h1>
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<h1>Expungement is a court filing that erases an arrest and non convictions from a rap sheet. When a record is expunged, the court records are sealed and made available only in very limited circumstances (eg, sentencing for new convictions). …</h1>
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<h1>expungement - An order of the Court to seal the record of certain convictions if statutory criteria are met. The defendant must initiate the process by filing a petition through the Probation department.</h1>
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<h1>expunge - When messages are marked for deletion, they remain until they are expunged. When a message is expunged, it is permanently deleted, as long as it was marked for deletion.</h1>
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<h1>expungement - Destruction of records. In child welfare, expungement means the removal from the Central Registry of certain reports of abuse or neglect.</h1>
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<p>I think Tortfeasor is trying to say that they won’t ever see those grades, as in there will be no record of you ever previously taking the class.</p>
<p>I didn’t know schools had the ability to expunge grades.</p>
<p>It depends on the registrar. Read the rules for re-taking classes. They’ll tell you whether the transcript will show that you’ve re-taken the class by listing it twice with their coresponding grade. Some places will just average. Other places will just take the highest.</p>
<p>Honestly, just take different upper level econ classes to show that you can do the work. But really for an undergrad with a strong GPA, you should be concentrating on focusing what you want to study for the PHD.</p>