<p>Two times in the past (both times over two years ago), I attempted community college and it didn't work out and I ended up with F's. Now I've been at Foothill College for a while and have a 4.0 GPA and am interested in transferring to a UC for 2014-2015, possibly with a TAG. Now I know the UCs will view my old grades at other schools when looking at my application, but will they use them to calculate my GPA (which might stop me from meeting the minimum GPA for a TAG), even if I'm not using them as credits (because I didn't pass them)? Is it possible for me to petition for academic renewal at Foothill even though the F's I got were at another community colleges, or can I still petition for academic renewal at my old schools even though I'm going to Foothill now? By the way I'm interested in UCSD and UC Davis. Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Unless you renew your F grades, those F’s will be used to calculate for your GPA.
As far as renewal goes, each school has different rules. However, all around renewal must be done at the school that you received the less than satisfactory grades.</p>
<p>Thank you kay for that information! I’m beginning the process right now by ordering transcripts to submit for my petitions and contacting my former schools. I appreciate you telling me that because I could not find that information anywhere. If anyone else has any experience with a similar issue I would love to hear what they have to say! Thanks again kay.</p>
<p>Hey I was curious to see how your academic renewal process all went down. I’m currently doing the academic renewal petition also and hoping you could help a fellow student out. 
thanks</p>
<p>Now I’m curious. Let’s say I don’t qualify to use AR until the end of the coming fall semester, can I still submit my grades, during the application process as AR instead of disclosing the grade?</p>
<p>I’m glad to see there are others in the process of putting their bad grades behind them and moving forward.</p>
<p>@krnstyles</p>
<p>Hey, it’s gone very well so far! I’ve been academically renewed at the first school I petitioned for academic renewal at, with no problems. I also petitioned for academic renewal at a second school that I bombed at, and I’m just waiting for it to be accepted, but I have no doubts that it will be. I’m confident it will work out, but I have to admit I’m slightly nervous about it with the UC application date coming up so quickly.I f you have any specific questions about the petition I would be happy to share with you what I know. I’m on here like everyday so whatever you need to know just shoot away. Although the petitions are slightly different at every school, they are all pretty similar from what I know.</p>
<p>@stong</p>
<p>That is a really good question, and one I have thought about myself if for some reason it takes months for my petition to be reviewed. I do not have a definite answer for you, but here are your options: A) Contact the admissions department of the schools you want to apply to, and see if they have any suggestions. They might not know the answer since it’s probably a relatively rare situation. B) If you are certain you have met the requirements to be academically renewed, contact your current school to see the maximum amount of time it could take. Since most schools don’t require transcripts until much later, you could take the chance that everything will work out and write “AR”. Before you do this I would certainly ask a counselor or something about it, because this seems like a definite fuzzy area. C) Probably the least desirable option is to take the hit and wait another year to apply. Obviously only do this if you are advised against writing “AR” prematurely.</p>
<p>The only other thing I can think of is perhaps with a note from your counselor, whoever oversees academic renewal will ignore the fact that it hasn’t quite been a year.</p>
<p>Anyways let me know if you guys have any questions. I’m sure everything will work out if you have recommitted yourself to being a good student. I know when I first heard about AR I was so happy I could hardly believe it. I never thought the education system gave out second chances (or third chances). Good luck both of you, hope to hear from you soon.</p>
<p>Congrats good to hear that your petitions are going through with no problem. How long did the academic renewal petition take for it to take effect on your transcript? were you sent a confirmation email? and coincidentally I’m a foothill college student as well and I’m actually curious if you know whether or not I can do academic renewal for both de anza and foothill because I know they are in the same district. I have one quarter of high school summer class that I took back in 2007 at De Anza that I absolutely want to get rid of and two quarters at foothill that occurred about 2 n half years ago. Thanks for being such a big help</p>
<p>Thanks a lot and no problem. Oh that’s cool you’re at Foothill too! So while I haven’t actually done AR at Foothill, FH has a very similar policy to the schools I did it at. You can absolutely do AR at both FH and De Anza as far as I know. I haven’t seen anywhere that would indicate you can’t. Since they are actually separate schools, they will review your cases independently so that shouldn’t be a problem at all. Academic Renewal took about 2 weeks to show up on my transcript. They didn’t send my an email or anything, so I was just logging on to view my transcript every few days to check, and eventually I noticed it said “AR” (you probably know you can view your “unofficial” transcript on myportal).</p>
<p>As easy as it is, I would get help from a counselor just to make sure you do everything right. I take mostly online classes so I forget if the counselors at FH do walk-ins, but I know it can be pretty dang hard to book an appointment. It’s worth talking to them though. If you have any more questions let me know. I’m sure everything will work out for you.</p>
<p>Jesus thank god for taking the time to impart some of your wisdom and experience on this haha. Tough to find people who are doing AR these days. Thanks a bunch and hope apps go well for you :)</p>
<p>No problem and btw I have no wisdom, just going down a similar road. But yeah I could hardly find anyone who knew much about AR, although there were a few people on this site who helped a lot. But yeah good luck with AR and transferring!</p>
<p>Hey, hopefully you’re still around because I just wanted to ask for a bit of clarification. You said you petitioned for academic renewal at those two previous colleges. I also botched my initial attempt at community college at two schools, but as third time’s the charm, I’ve been doing well at my current schol. I’ve been worrying myself to death over getting all the transcripts in one place and doing academic renewal that way, but there would be no way I could disregard all those credits given the policies at each place.</p>
<p>So based on what you’re saying, I can just go to each of those old schools individually and petition for academic renewal of the units taken at those places instead?</p>
<p>Example: I had horrible grades at schools A and B. I go to school C and have excellent grades.</p>
<p>I go to school A and petition for academic renewal and submit my transcript from school C to show my improvement.</p>
<p>I go to school B and do the same thing.</p>
<p>So, I can do that?</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure what you are saying in the first part of your post, but I think I understand your question, hopefully. Different community colleges have slightly different policies, but generally yes that will work. You can use your transcript from your most recent college to get academic renewal at your past colleges. A few colleges have policies that will only allow academic renewal if you have met the qualifications at that college, but most colleges will allow academic renewal if you have met the qualifications at any other california community college. You should talk to your counselor about it, or look up the petition online to get the specifics for those colleges. I’m not sure if I answered your question, but let me know if you are still unclear about something. Academic renewal has been a lifesaver for me, so I hope it works out for you.</p>
<p>Off topic question, does Foothill professors actually give minus to their grades?</p>
<p>@tutereo </p>
<p>Yeah they do, although some choose not to. It’s weird you asked that, because I just posted a question that has to do with that.</p>
<p>They do, and De Anza does as well. </p>
<p>I’ve been told that the UC’s don’t factor in minuses, though. I wouldn’t know for sure, since I didn’t go to to a school that used that system. </p>
<p>@music1990 Can I have a list of your teachers that you’ve taken that does not count in the plus/minus factor?</p>
<p>I went through the AR process and it was relatively easy. Also, I first got the guarantee from the CC that after I completed a certain number of credits that they would AR certain grades for certain semesters. Once I got that guarantee, I did enter AR on my UCLA application (fall 2015) and so far so good. Once they receive my transcripts at the CC, they will AR those grades. Every CC is different, some require you to establish at least 13 units in good standing, some do not. Some CC’s require you to AR an entire semester, some will let you specify courses. It’s really a case by case situation. Good to all of you. :)</p>