<p>This is sort of a lengthy post, but please bear with me could really use the advice and intake.</p>
<p>Okay so this is ridiculous I know... I went to a community college my first year out of high school and since I didn't take it seriously for whatever reason I did horrible! Please don't lecture or anything I barley can look at myself for this. It was a real wake up call for me to get it together. Anyways I have grieved and beat myself up pretty much the whole summer. Grown up a whole lot and realized this is real life and, all my mistakes will be on me now. And now there really isn't anything to do but move on from here and accept the past. </p>
<p>Anyways my GPA at the moment is a 1.94. Which to me is a complete nightmare being that I was a top student in High School. Anyways I've enrolled once again in community college which was dreadful to me. Because my original plan consisted of being at a 4 year university by this time. Any who my plan right now is to get nothing but straight A's. I've talked to advisors and their answer to my low GPA is due to the fact that I completely overloaded myself my first year. With each semester doing 15+ hours. I really thought since I did so well in HS it wouldn't be so bad. I sure was wrong!!! My load consists of only 12hrs so I should do fine no hard sciences which also killed me first year. </p>
<p>Now that is said, I really want to transfer to a university spring 2014. I know I'm ready after this semester. I have reevaluated myself in an academic sense and, I know I can attend a university and do more than great my first year was a bump in the road. The University I want to transfer to require a 2.25 GPA minimum to transfer. So is it possible for me to attend in the spring. I know after this semester that I will come out with at least a 2.5 GPA. So can I still get accepted with for spring even though technically right now I dont have the grades for it? But in the process of this upcoming semester acquire the necessary requirements to attend the school. Then after the semester is over I would submit my new transcript. With my transfer GPA. Is that possible at all? Or am I going to have to wait until fall of 2014 to attend which would really disappoint me. Please Help!!!</p>
<p>We can’t help you with that. You should have asked the advisors, maybe you can go back and speak to them. Or email the admissions office of the new school and ask if they would accept you provisionally. It seems unlikely.</p>
<p>If you were my kid, I would tell you not to get your hopes up. Your problem is, it doesn’t matter that you know you’re ready to move from community college to a four-year college. The college has to be persuaded of it. They hear, “I know I’m ready,” hundreds of times every admissions cycle. They will want evidence. And I think they’ll want more than one semester’s worth.</p>
<p>Yeah I hadn’t contacted advisors/admission office yet I wanted opinion from here first just to see what I was dealing with. And it breaks my heart that my first year went like that. And I guess I have to pay for the consequences. But first semester I took 17 second semester 15 I would do online and in the classroom I doubled upbwhich was a bad idea for the first year fresh out of high school.</p>
<p>Honestly, 17 credits isn’t an absurdly heavy load–although it could be quite a bear, depending on what classes you’re taking, it could also be quite manageable–and 15 is simply what you need to do to stay on pace to graduate in 4 years.</p>
<p>If anything, I wonder how much you can repair your record while taking only 12.</p>
<p>You should meet the transfer advisors at your community college early this semester, make a plan with them, and check in with them at least once a semester for as long as you’re at this college.</p>
<p>The thing is, if you apply for spring 2014 you won’t even have your fall 2013 grades yet so you will be applying with your current gpa of 1.94 which will not get you in anywhere. I really think your best option is to focus on being successful at your cc right now and work hard to overcome your awful first year. Your best bet at convincing a university to accept you is to re-take any classes you got less than a C in and work hard to get both a 3.0+ gpa and your A.A.</p>
<p>Obviously you underestimated what it would take to be successful at your community college so please don’t make the same mistake of underestimating what it will take at a 4 year school which will be much more expensive. Take your time and get it right where you are now and don’t try to transfer before you are ready.</p>