Striking Grades from Former Major from GPA?

VulgarUnicorn
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:25:28 +0000

smurray09:

Depending on the school; there’s something called Academic Renewal. It deletes the grade and it no longer shows on your transcript. It’s like you never took the class.

Thank you for this!
It sounds like the [general rule](http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/632741-what-academic-renewal.html) for AR is that two years have passed and it only applies to Ds and Fs. I think she had three Ds. Even without fixing the Cs, I think that would get her over a 3.0!

The way the guy on city data explained it, they can remove credits in one major, if it is totally unrelated to your current major. I’m guessing general course credits cannot be removed. So for instance, her Calculus class could not be removed. But her Java programming class could be.
I don’t know what this system is called or if it is present at many schools. His exact quote was

Yeah I got raped in my first year in physics. Mostly got C’s and a few Ds. I thought I was a brain because I liked NOVA and had a 3.8 in my regular level high school classes. Lucky for me they dropped all those classes from my record when I switched to political science.