Hi there everyone. This post might be a long one but I’m desperate at this point and know nowhere else to look.
I submitted a CUNY application on July 7th of 2020 and it is now August 27th, 2020. I have received absolutely no contact from CUNY. I emailed them recently and still have gotten zero response. My friends have already been enrolled in their classes and I haven’t even been enrolled in a school.
For some background: I am an NYC resident and did my first year of college in Illinois. The school was much too expensive for me to stay and I had come back home around when COVID began to hit. Unfortunately, being alone in a completely different state with different people, and cultures, didn’t really help me when it came to academic troubles. I was always a A+ student in high school, and because it was my first time in college, I had to get used to the system, new people, and a whole different culture from what i am originally used to. I ended up getting sick my first few months which didn’t reflect well on my grades, and going in blind ended up doing more harm than good. My grades suffered, to say the least. My second semester I cleaned up my act, but when I had to leave due to COVID, my textbooks (which i required for my classes) ended up staying at my college because I had to pack light and go home immediately. I contacted my college and they told me they’d send me my textbooks. Weeks passed and I got nothing. Without the resources i needed, my work required for the rest of the semester ended up non-satisfactory, or were simply not completed at all. This dropped my GPA tremedously.
I apply for CUNY as a transfer in July, and i get no response. So given that classes are about to begin, i begin contacting schools individually, hoping to get through to atleast one. My efforts are met with a triad of rejections, mostly due to my GPA from my first year in college. I’ve talked to friends, family, authorities, advisors, everything! I NEED to get back into a classroom. Please, if anyone knows how to get through CUNY faster, or how to get enrolled with a terrible GPA, I am begging you to assist in any way. Any information is also helpful.
I’m stuck. At this point I feel like the system is sabatoging me on purpose. And the more i sit around, the angrier I become.