Excluding a semester from a transcript?

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<p>Hey everyone. Right now I am going to community college and hoping to transfer after this year, but I sort of messed up my first semester last year. For whatever reason, I really put no effort into it, and it showed. I barely passed all of my classes. Next semester, I did well, pulling my GPA up to a 2.0, but that still isnt going to get me very far. I was wondering if its possible (or even legal for a college) to drop a semester from a transcript. There arent any transferable credits anyway. I know I have the potiental to be a solid A/B student in college, but right now there is no way to show that. </p>

<p>I don't really have much to show from highschool either, as I went to 3 different highschools and my credits became so messed up I finally decided to just get my GED rather than doing another year of high school. I dont know if GED scores matter, but I scored in the 99th, 98th, and 86th percentile in Math, Science and English respectively. I dont remember if there was a history portion or not though, it was over a year ago. I never took my SAT's, but I am a good test taker and score 1100 in my psats when I took them with absolutely no studying, so I imagine i can do pretty decently on them.</p>

<p>Basically I'm sort of stuck here, I don't want to go to community college for a third year. I've already accepted I've lost a year, and that is fine.</p>

<p>Anyway thanks for any input.</p>

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<p>Well, what you should have done was to switch community colleges after messing up your first semester last year--but since you didn't, the best you can hope for now is that the schools you are applying to will overlook the first semester of last year--or see how you have improved in the three semesters since.</p>

<p>The other thing to consider is applying to a school that's not quite as tough to transfer to with a lower community college GPA. For example, even with that 2.0, you could probably still get into either UC Merced or UC Riverside--and possibly UC Santa Cruz if you could convince them that the first semester is not indicative of your work. </p>

<p>As far as the SATs, most schools don't care about them once you are in college--so that's not going to help much.</p>