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Nancy:<br>
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Thank you for this resource. I am attaching a document from Mary
Farmer (November 2022) that lists many (all?) of the service
providers you listed. I am also attaching our procedure for in-house
GPA calculation and the revised admission standards (revised by the
UL System).<br>
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Answer to your question: We do use the GPA calculated by the
Scholaro website as the basis for admission decisions but with
occasional exceptions as allowed by the ULS policy.<br>
<br>
Sushma: We have not been admitting applicants with three-year
degrees unless they are from one of the Bologna Process signatory
countries ... and we don't get many of those. In fact, I cannot
think of even one since 2020.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Ramu<br>
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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">Nancy <o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 24, 2024 5:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nancy Biggio <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nbiggio@uno.edu"><nbiggio@uno.edu></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: GPA calculation for non-US
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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
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 24, 2024 1:14 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> GPA calculation for non-US institutions</span>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Hope you are well and the spring
has started off smoothly. We have updated our
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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
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