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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see the conversation which I started with Sushma but has implications across the board. I know several campuses perform in house evaluations of non-US transcripts but for those of us who were hoping to switch to the lower cost general
evaluation from the course by course evaluation, this is an issue. For those who do this internally, do you manually calculate the GPA equivalent and apply your standard admissions requirements?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is some research my office conducted on the NACES services who provide a GPA with a general evaluation. I welcome all thoughts and suggestions!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Sushma Krishnamurthy <krishnamurthy@ulm.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 24, 2024 5:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nancy Biggio <nbiggio@uno.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: GPA calculation for non-US institutions<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi Nancy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We were asking the same question here as well since we use WES for all our international transcripts. They (WES) always says that a 3 year degree that awards a bachelors degree in other countries
is not equivalent to a 4 year degree here. I think this is a great question and would be a good idea to discuss with all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sushma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Nancy Biggio <<a href="mailto:nbiggio@uno.edu">nbiggio@uno.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 24, 2024 1:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sushma Krishnamurthy <<a href="mailto:krishnamurthy@ulm.edu">krishnamurthy@ulm.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> GPA calculation for non-US institutions</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Hope you are well and the spring has started off smoothly. We have updated our international admissions requirements to eliminate the course by course requirement for evaluation since we are just looking for the bachelor’s degree equivalency
with the new admissions standards. It does not appear that the WES general evaluation includes a GPA (only the course by course one does). How do you handle that for admissions standards?<o:p></o:p></p>
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