<p>I took a history class at my first college and got a D so since I heard Ds won’t transfer I took history again and passed with a much better grade. i also took a few elective gym classes like yoga and modern dance.I got As in both and the helped my GPA although barely since they are only 1 credit hours. I transfer do a different university and they sent me a letter of my classes that transferred and it shows that my class that I got a D in transferred but my gym classes did not and I am not confused not only because the D transferred ( if I had know it would transferred I would not have retaken it) but that my electives didn’t transfer. also I took an environmental science class and lab but those did not transfer either so I really confused and upset about the classes I took that im not getting credit for and the fact that they accepted my D.</p>
<p>and what does that do to my GPA?</p>
<p>It probably has to do with which courses they view as being academically rigorous. They probably consider dance/yoga as something you take for fun, rather than for credit. Or perhaps they looked at the syllabus and decided it wasn’t up to par with the kinds of classes they accept. Environmental… I’m not sure why that wouldn’t transfer. Maybe they weren’t happy with the coverage of material, maybe there wasn’t an equivalent class at the new school, maybe they just made a mistake. You could try asking a counselor about it if it’s really important.</p>
<p>The letter grades you got in each class shouldn’t be relevant so long as you passed, what’s important is the class itself, and what you learned.</p>
<p>And uh, doesn’t GPA usually ‘reset’ after transfer? Are you sure the classes you took before are affecting it? I thought most schools gave credit for the classes, but a clean GPA.</p>
<p>but the yoga and dance class were for credit and i received credit for them at my previous college. also my major requires a gym class and electives so why didn’t they count as electives at this college? I also intend to transfer to another university after I stay 1 year at his university so will that college then accept those classes or will they not accept them because this college doesn’t.</p>
<p>Ask the transcript evaluator at the new school.</p>
<p>School 3 should base their decisions on the original courses you took at school 1, not on how school 2 evaluated things. But now it’s getting messy and you should probably call school 3 and verify what will/won’t transfer, that way you can be prepared and avoid unpleasant surprises like this.</p>
<p>The way some colleges do it is that they look for a course at their own college that can be an equivalent of a course you took elsewhere. If it so fits then you get the credit transferred. So you can appeal the decision, by looking for a like course and sending the official description of the course you took elsewhere and requesting it to take the place of the like course.</p>
<p>Usually, courses transferred from other schools are not included in the other college’s GPA. If ever you need those grades, or all of your courses, you have to get them from each college that you attended. </p>
<p>There are also internal rules as to what courses will transfer with regard to grades, whether they are for your major or not, when you took them, maximums and whatever other rules a college wishes to make.</p>