Do colleges consider students with once bad grades?

Applying to College
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So…long story short. I am still in community college and finally transfer next Spring (thank goodness) after 4 years. I paid for my own college, car, and etc… I am independent. When I started college I remember I was in the hospital for some days due to stress and then I lost my father the Christmas break after my freshman year in December of 2015 and that effected me harshly especially emotionally and academically. As you can imagine 2016 was horrible (I am making up classes from that year even especially since I took some semesters off). I am 23 (almost 24) and I feel really bad to be super old in college let alone community. By the time I transfer I would be 25 and I feel ashamed and dumb for it. My classmates have already graduated (granted they picked easier majors than mine. 2017 was bad as well and then fall 2018 (last semester) I lost my beloved grandfather. Recently, I got in a huge car wreck and thankfully I am alive. I feel that something bad always happens to me and it ends up holding me behind. I have a could of C’s & F’s on my transcripts but I have for sure made improvement. I went from a 2.5 gpa to a 3.7 GPA and finally a 3.899GPA. I worked really hard for these grades but I am afraid the college will see the couple of F’s & C’s on my transcript and disregard me together because of the bad grades along with my age. What should I do? Will I even be able to get into college?

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  1. Don’t worry about being older and in college. If you don’t go to college, you will be 2 years older and without a degree.

  2. I had 2 semesters where 1) I got pneumonia 2) I got in a car accident. But I used the “tools” that the school gives you and took incompletes for some classes and finished the rest up that semester. I then finished up the incompletes the next semester. My daughter got hospialized for a week last semester…but she talk to the Dean of Students and her professors and withdrew from one class so she could do better in the others. She also got accomodations for extra time that semester. She didn’t just try to plow through.

  3. I would think that a 4 year school would want to make sure you can succeed. If you are showing that you can do well in CC, then I would think that one of your State Us/Colleges would accept you.