Graduating college feels good, graduating with honors feels great, missing to graduate with honors by 0.03 GPA doesn’t feel very good, trust me !
Let’s take you back to April 25th, 2019, a day that all students, at least in the Computer Information Technology program at Lethbridge College were impatiently waiting for. It was the day where our final grades were released.
The night before, I was regrouping my grades from all previous semesters to get an idea of what I needed in this last semester to graduate with honors. It was very tight and could not wait for the last grades to be released: the verdict depended on them.
8:00 AM, the final grades are live. I rushed on my phone and noticed I missed it. 3.50 was the required GPA to graduate with honors, and I was having a 3.38 GPA. The disappointment clearly appeared on my face, like a little kid who did not receive a toy from Santa on Christmas.
I started scrolling down through the grades, and I noticed that one of the grades were not correct. The smile came back to my face, and a little hope was built. I directly wrote an Informal Grade Appeal email to the instructor, who recognized the mistake and updated the grade for that course. Few minutes later, my GPA went from 3.38 to 3.47 : it was still not enough. While I thought it was supposed to make me feel better, it actually did the opposite. The more I was close to the minimum without reaching it, the less happy I was.
The worst is when I go back to all my grades from previous semesters and compared with the score I got in each course and noticed that in one of the courses, I was assigned what I can call a wrong grade as well. Unfortunately, according to the college grade appeal policy, I already missed the deadline to appeal for that grade. I reached out to the instructor to explain the situation, but no luck, no more change possible.
This is how I ended up graduating with a 3.47 GPA and missed the minimum GPA to graduate with honors by 0.03.
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