Academic Suspension affect Community College Enrollment?

Transfer Students
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<p>The short version (got a bit wordy, so putting this up front):
Will my Academic suspension from NAU hurt my chances of enrollment at a community college?</p>

<p>Should I go to the school that will be the best for completing classes I need (while suspended) the quickest, and save more money as well as possible better chance of employment? Or should I go to the one which is essentially a feeder school for NAU but overall cost will be higher, and a smaller job market?</p>

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<p>Basically I transferred for fall 2010 from my old Community College after getting an AAS, to a 4 year university (NAU). Mentioned in another thread, but I basically hated it after that first semester. I think the biggest issue was not knowing anyone and lack of club activity (the one club I liked at my CC, didn't have a chapter at NAU). I hesitate to say I got depressed, and have no medical backing of it, but it is probably likely. None the less I still in the end wasn't studying enough and too lackadaisical in my whole approach, and bombed both semesters (I did better in Fall, and feel a bit annoyed with one of the Ds I got). Which put me on an academic suspension from the school (can get into more reasons, but its just long and pointless, it won't change that I'm academical suspended from the school). </p>

<p>I'd be shocked if I have higher then a 1.0 GPA from my 2 semesters at Uni, and my grades at my prior CC and highschool were meh at best (2.5 the highest maybe?). The big issue is how much will the Uni grades affect my enrollment at a local community college, and further how will the suspension effect it? </p>

<p>The second issue is where to go. I really don't want to live at home, but the best community college option seems to lead me to having to do that (at least until I find a job). My old CC is out of the question as it'd be much tougher to move back there, and they don't have online classes for most of the classes I need. The CC I want to go to is in a different county then NAU, which can make getting classes lined up a bit of a struggle, but they will accept my placement score from NAU, and that will make it easier to get the classes I need done within a year. The CC in the same county as NAU (I call it a feeder school, all 3 universities here seem to have one) would obviously have classes that mostly line-up with NAU, but it would take longer to complete there and the rent issue comes up again. </p>

<p>My goal would be to get a job and thus hopefully my own place to live, and hopefully be able to at least help with the cost of school some (I still feel bad about messing up last year, though parents don't know I did). Lack of work experience will make getting a job tough though, especially when bleh grades don't make "time off to focus on school" a great line. Still the school closer to my parents would be best for job hunting as it is in the Phoenix-metro area, so hopefully a better job market then the other options. But there would be stronger competition for jobs as well, so that might hurt it more? </p>

<p>ANYWAYS, the school I'm leaning to has a list of criteria for transfer student, that you only have to hit one to be considered. I do (high school graduate of Arizona), but the good standing with previous schools worries me. I obviously do with two schools (my highschool and the CC I graduated from), but the suspension would count as not good standing with NAU correct?</p>

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<p>In my experience no school will take you (either public or private) while you are on dismissal or suspension from another school. Are you on financial aid? If not I would personally have transcripts sent from the last institution that i was still in good standing at, and not mention that I had gone to NAU. </p>

<p>If you are on financial aid then the financial aid office will realize that you went to NAU and you will get flagged. This is a dangerous game to play as it could lead to whatever college you get caught at permanently dismissing you. I would make sure that whatever college I was trying this at, that I had no credits there already that I would need a transcript from.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t on financial aid. Supposedly the advisers at NAU will talk about options like CC, but don’t particularly want to have to talk with them to begin with (just don’t).</p>

<p>Just to add, according to the community college I’m looking at, they are open enrollment (as long as you have completed high school and 18 or older you are supposed to get in). But the catalog also references good standing with prior schools…ugh (it says it is only one needs to be met though, thus unsure if the good standing will be an issue. Not even sure if Academic suspension counts as not in good standing, but guessing it does).</p>

<p>EDIT: The other issue with going to the one near parents (I forgot about this) is they got a few things for the place in flagstaff (like a bed, and put a pet deposit down for family pet) recently, I THOUGHT they understood I wanted to go back to community college this year (apparently they didn’t), and can’t really tell them about the suspension thing. Not sure how ****ed they’ll be if I want to move back to phoenix area just for a year of CC (assuming I get in)</p>

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<p>I understand the parental concerns… maybe some huge lie about “finding yourself” or some other such BS is in order… or i guess you could tell them the truth, some parents flip out when you do bad in school… I have an older brother who took almost 10 years to get an undergrad and got 2 DUI’s his freshman year… so I could pretty much do anything with my life and not disappoint my parents.</p>

<p>Just FYI: Academic suspension = bad academic standing with the former school, they will not allow you to enroll. Most colleges will overlook anything in your past except: 1. Bad academic standing at former school 2. Owing money to former school</p>

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<p>“Supposedly the advisers at NAU will talk about options like CC, but don’t particularly want to have to talk with them to begin with (just don’t).”</p>

<p>You need to sit down with the advisors at NAU and find out just exactly what you need to do to lift the academic suspension. Do you need a certain number of credits with a certain GPA? Do they want you to sit out of college entirely for a semester or two? When you know that, you need to follow their steps exactly to the letter. That will give you the best chance of being re-admitted to NAU in the future and the best chance of being admitted to a different 4-year college or university if you don’t want to go back to NAU.</p>

<p>And, like it or not, you have to come clean about all of this with your parents. If you meet with the people at NAU first, and develop a plan, your parents will still be unhappy, but it won’t be nearly as awful as if you don’t have a plan!</p>

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<p>The only requirement for my CC in CA is open admission. Like you said the only requirements are that you graduated highschool or are over 18. They don’t mention anything about other schools etc. I know of a few students in previous classes who failed out of their old University and are now at my CC. Maybe you should just email the CC you are trying to go to and just ask? I wish you luck!!</p>