<p>Hello! And TIA for any info! I'm so glad to have found this board, I've been reading for days.</p>
<p>I have seen a lot of good advice on here, but none that exactly fit my situation so I thought I'd give it a shot and see if someone could offer some..... (it's long, sorry)</p>
<p>OK I am an LPN of 10 years, and a single mom of a 13 year old. I always planned on doing something bigger than LPN - I figured it would even be medical school someday, but I have really screwed up along the way and don't know if it's fixable anytime soon.
8 years ago I enrolled in CC part time and did pretty well, maintained a 3.5 or so for the first couple years. My grades went down a little over the next year or so, and then I received an F for two classes one semester because I stopped attending for financial reasons. I made them up later, but it still affected my cumulative GPA. I also received two W's another semester, although that didn't affect my GPA I think it may still look bad. I left that CC 2 years ago with a cumulative of 2.85 and 80 hours.
Two years ago, I moved to the city I live in now, and had planned on applying to the ADN program here, and didn't make it in because I missed a deadline. I was very very discouraged and the next year of attendance, I REALLY MESSED up and received F's for every class I attended for two semesters. I am unable to return to that school (4year Univ) unless I pay for 20 hours on my own repeat those classes, receiving a C or better. They are classes I don't need, and I don't know why I took them I think I lost my mind after not getting into the ADN program. So basically, that entire transcript is unacceptable - it's a year of F's. Not to mention the millions of dollars in loans I now owe.
Financial reasons, and the state of my home life (struggling with work and school and a child and a house) is the reason I have messed up so badly. But now for the past year I have been in a stable government position, things have leveled out financially, and my daughter is older and I'm able to focus more on school. I am very ready to get my stuff together academically and I am hoping there may be a shred of hope that I can eventually get into a PA program somewhere.
A few days ago, I applied to a school in the next town, a 4 year science/arts university. The application criteria for adults does not specify a GPA requirement online, so when I applied I did not include the school I messed up in. Not only are my grades terrible, but I don't think they will even release a transcript because I still owe for my last semester (which I plan on paying off with whatever leftover grant I receive). My questions are - </p>
<p>1- Is this new school going to know about the omitted transcript?</p>
<p>2- I have 80 hours, not that many more hours to take before I can file for my BS. Once I have a BS from that school, if I can bring my GPA up from the 2.85, will it even matter to a PA program that I screwed up for that year? Like, if I apply to a program, and submit my BS - will it then be apparent that I did not include my "messed up" transcript before receiving the BS?</p>
<p>3 - Do I have any hope at all for any further schooling before I'm 60 years old - or should I just give up now and stay working class peon forever?</p>
<p>ANY INFO, ANY AT ALL, IS APPRECIATED. Please be easy on me, I know I messed up and I can't erase it. I just want to recover and move on without paying for it the rest of my life.</p>
<p>Thank You</p>