<p>Sophomore at Colorado School of Mines.
Had a pretty good run through high school in Texas, 3.9/4 GPA, key member on a pretty good FIRST robotics team, internship at NASA prior to college. So my resume through HS was pretty good.</p>
<p>Got to Mines and got crushed, can't keep up with the workload here and I'm trying to get back to a state school in Texas.</p>
<p>Any chance of me being accepted into UT/TAMU/Tech/UofH? Or should I expect to be in my local community college for the next semester? I'm looking at an Econ major or Chemical engineering.</p>
<p>If it counts for anything, I got into all of them Senior year of HS, and I'm on track to bring my GPA up to a low 2 after this semester.</p>
<p>Go to a community college for a while and repair your GPA. As it stands right now, I don’t think you’d have success with admissions at anywhere competitive.</p>
<p>That’s why I figured, thanks.</p>
<p>One of my best HS friends started out at one of our home-state public Us, and was crushed academically. He went home, spent two years in the pre-engineering program at the local CC, and then transferred into engineering at the other state U. He graduated in two more years, and has had a very successful career in engineering. If he could make this work, so can you. Talk with the admissions offices at the universities that admitted you last year, maybe they will take a chance in your case, but if they won’t, the CC is not a bad place to start over!</p>
<p>Being straightforward, I think some schools look more highly at people who perhaps made mistakes, went to CC, do very well then re-apply. :)</p>