<p>Hi,
I was a freshmen student in Steinhardt department of NYU, but I was dismissed due to academic records. I was wondering what dismissal meant in this case. The letter I received stated that I could not reapply for admission until fall 2009 semester. How high of a chance do I have to become readmitted for fall 2009?
Also, usually what course of action is taken by college students who are dismissed after their freshmen yr in college? Are they doomed for failure?</p>
<p>Your academic dismissal means that you did not meet the academic standards required to maintain matriculaiton so the school has decided to give you a break to get your self together (in this case you are getting a year off). </p>
<p>In the spring you will apply for readmission for Fall 2009 where you will tell the school what you've learned over your year off and what can you do differently to be successful. Your deans will meet to determineif you can come back in the fall.</p>
<p>You need to decide what you are going to do during your year off. Can you attend classes at at the local CUNY (hopefully you will be able to build up some credits even though the grades will not be counted into your gpa)? Are you going to work? You will need to sit down and talk to your parents about the next steps. They may not want to continue to pay for you to attend NYU.</p>
<p>NYU will probably take you back and most likely you will still be on probation until you bring your GPA up. You are not doomed for failure if you work hard to turn things around but you should take this time to assess what happened (stressed about being in college, poor time management, poor study skills, too much partying, etc) and what you can do to keep it from happening again.</p>
<p>You will have to check to see if the academic probation/ academic dismissal will show up on your transcript.</p>
<p>sybbie719 is right: you're going to want to be able to make it clear to them that whatever went wrong this year is not going to go wrong next year. That may mean taking responsibility for not studying enough (and you can take a community college class to show that you can perform better), it may mean accepting that you can't succeed in college and work as many hours as you have been (and you can try to find loans so you can focus on your schoolwork), it may mean going to a psychiatrist/minister/support group/whatever and getting help with personal problems that were too much for you (and being prepared to discuss what it is that is going to keep them from overwhelming you again), ....</p>
<p>There are a lot of responses people can take to flunking out. You should decide what it is that you really want in the next four or five years, consider whether you've been doing things that sabotage you, and make any necessary changes. You may not want to go back to school in a year. You may not want to go back ever. You may want to buckle down and get into a good law school. It's your choice.</p>
<p>It means you got under a 2.0 or worse. You can take off the year and if you had over a 1.5 they might take you back if you grovel a bit. You could go to a JC and get some grades to show you can do it.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn't even know schools did things like that.</p>