{"id":7940,"date":"2020-04-10T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:03:32","slug":"your-questions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2020\/04\/10\/your-questions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m confused as to what taking &#8220;credit&#8221; means. They said it doesn&#8217;t change their GPA, but how does it impact a transcript?<\/p>\n<p>A grade of \u201ccredit\u201d counts in the student&#8217;s Earned Hours and applies to degree requirements, however, does not impact the GPA. It appears on the transcript next to the course name as a CR (instead of, for instance, a letter grade of B). There are some programs on campus that are discouraging students to take a CR because of state requirements or program accreditation. Those students have already been emailed by their advisor or the academic department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the future, if someone looks at my student\u2019s transcript, does that look bad?<\/p>\n<p>A grade of \u201ccredit\u201d could impact a student who is transferring or applying to graduate school. It is best to contact those other institutions to see what policies they have for accepting a \u201ccredit\u201d grade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For any scholarships based on GPA, will those still be ok if my student takes &#8220;credit&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, a grade of CR will not negatively impact financial aid, including SAP and Scholarship eligibility. However, GPA requirements will still apply. If you have questions, contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/finaid\/\">Office of Financial Aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m confused as to what taking &#8220;credit&#8221; means. They said it doesn&#8217;t change their GPA, but how does it impact a transcript? A grade of \u201ccredit\u201d counts in the student&#8217;s Earned Hours and applies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}