Striking Grades from Former Major from GPA?

VulgarUnicorn
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:07:05 +0000

This is something I heard about on another forum. It can be possible to strike grades from an unrelated major if you switch to a new major. Of course you lose those credits in the process.

My girlfriend chose the wrong major when entering college. She took CS because she wanted a high paying job, even though she’s mediocre at math and disinterested in technical details. It took a huge toll on her GPA.

Her writing, humanities, etc classes were almost entirely As. But her core CS classes were Cs and Ds. Calculus I was the only CS related class she got through with a B(though it’s obviously in the general education division). She has since switched to social work and is again mostly getting As. But her overall GPA is still not that good. It’s around 2.7, because of all those CS classes that are now totally useless to her.

Is there any way to just strike those off? She’d probably qualify for more merit money than the cost of the credit hours, and I’m afraid it’s going to hurt her job prospects.