Arizona State and my horrid transcript

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<p>Hey this is my first post, sorry if i dont follow proper forum etiquette just yet!</p>

<p>Anyways I graduated from an arizona high school back in '05 and attended one semester at an out of state college the same year. I think it would be an understatement to say that semester was a disaster(ie: couldnt afford books, financial aid not covering even 1/2 of my tuition not to mention all my other expense, being the only person in my family to attempt college, only job I could find resulted in not being able to attend a class). Ha! Not trying to justify my failures just trying to explain what in the hell resulted in a 1.86 GPA (E, C+, B-, B).</p>

<p>Now just two weeks ago I applied at Arizona State(dont worry im an AZ resident!) and even though I hear the acceptance rate is around 90%, I'm very worried I may fall into that 10%! Does anyone have a decent understanding of the admissions process? If I did fairly well in high school and bombed that one semester how will they look at that? And if I AM denied admissions, is it something I should even bother to appeal? Or would I be better off going to a community college.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for anyone if you have any thoughts, comments, advice... or even want to laugh at my expense! (Assuming I don't drop dead of anxiety first!)</p>

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<p>Is there a section on your application where they ask you to explain if you feel like your previous academic record doesn’t really reflect your academic ability? I know on my application for my own school it does. You will have to explain your situation to them or else they will not know otherwise. </p>

<p>DO NOT PUT IT IN YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT!</p>

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<p>Nope the application was just very basic personal information such name, address, schools attended and such.</p>