<p>For the last two years I've been going to community college. I was pretty decent in high school but once I got into community college, I had a lot of outside conflicts (mostly family issues; I won't get into it) that made me have really poor grades. Not only that, I hated taking remedial classes AGAIN as I had spent the majority of my time in school taking them (math (granted I need this in my major but still), English, science, history, etc.); I felt lazy and didn't really want to deal with them since I wanted to get into my main classes, so I was, "Meh" about the whole situation. It also didn't help that a lot of kids at community college treat school like a joke; I guess it reflected on me.</p>
<p>That being said, I had pretty bad grades. I was barely passing classes with C's and barely failing with D's. I had a few A's and B's in there but it wasn't really significant. Just classes you would expect to get good grades in. </p>
<p>I consider myself a really smart person as I'm a quick learner, I'm a bookworm (I always have a book in my face), and people actually come to me to help them with their homework. My major is computer science and although I'm 19, I completely taught myself PHP, CSS3, HTML5 and I can use jQuery and Javascript efficiently; I taught myself before I even graduated high school. Recently I was teaching myself Java and C++ because I haven't gotten into my main classes yet and I yearn for it as I don't completely feel like a computer major.</p>
<p>Anyways, recently my financial aid was cut off because I failed most of my classes. I was wondering where do I go from here? While I no longer get financial aid, because of my dad is a veteran, I can attend any university in California tuition free. It would be far away from home and since I have no idea how to get financial aid back, it is an option. Question is, how do I go about transferring? Would any university accept me given my current standing? Could I possibly start over from scratch (since I'm still young, I don't particularly mind this option)? Is there such thing as a "second chance"?</p>
<p>Well what’s your GPA? You didn’t give any specifics. Figure out a few Universities or colleges you want to transfer to. Learn what their requirements are and the average GPA and meet those requirements.</p>
<p>Stick a few semesters extra in community college to get your grades up, no shame in that. Write some good essays explaining your situation and you should be set.You could probably get into a “decent” school.</p>
<p>My GPA is 1.9 or something like that. My dad kicked me out because he thought I wasn’t serious enough so I can’t stay with him. The community college near my mom doesn’t offer computer science courses either (they live literally cross country from each other). I could go to a community college in California but I have nobody to stay with; not like they have dorms and I can’t exactly afford an apartment. I don’t even have job experience.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that the community college I was going to, not only am I cut from financial aid but I’m on probation too. I’m not sure for how long but they wouldn’t let me register for summer term. I’m already behind for my age (I graduated high school at 17) and I don’t want to get even further behind.</p>
<p>You need to get a full time job, find an apartment with others that you can afford, mature and go back to college in a couple of years when you’re ready to do well.</p>
<p>Full time job isn’t an option since I’ve actually been applying everywhere for the last year or so and haven’t been able to snag anything. Summer jobs are almost always exclusive to high school students (I’ve had managers tell me this up front).</p>
<p>Another option I guess is to get into the air force… I’d get experience and I can still go to school (plus I’d get paid). Dad mentioned this option to me before. Problem is I’m a girl and I’m not really sure how the army takes to females… not sure if we’re lowered in standards or if we’re expected to meet the expectations of males as well.</p>
<p>If you’re physically and mentally fit, most of the armed forces will take you. BE WARNED, you will have a hard road as a female in the military . . . no joke. Good luck to you!</p>