<p>I don’t mean to be a downer, just a realist: I have just done what the OP could have, and researched several college sites as well as ed.gov for federal info regarding this topic. When a student is dismissed for SAP, it is because they lose eligibility for fed. financial aid funding, whether or not they actually get fed. fin. aid! Even if the OP enrolls at a school that will take her, they will require transcripts, or will discover this info. The OP will NOT be eligible for financial aid for at least one semester, and will be on probation. After 2 years at any 4 year college, you must have a GPA of at least 2.0 or you are on probation, and can lose your fin. aid. eligibility if it takes longer than one semester to bring your GPA back up to a 2.0. A student can also not take longer than 1 and a half times the normal amount of time to complete a certificate or degree program. You can’t keep failing and retaking courses to try to finish. Not only because your GPA would be horrendous, but also because the money for fin. aid. is ultimately limited by time as well for each degree attempted.</p>
<p>Now, I may not be using exactly the correct terminology/phrases, etc. OP, I suggest you ask someone at the FIN. Aid. office to sit down and explain all your options. Can you afford to pay for school without federal financial aid? It sounds like your previous school was pretty patient and gave you plenty of time to try to recover your GPA. You can appeal your school’s decision if there were mitigating circumstances beyond your control: crazy roommate, death in the family, horrendous personal illness or tragedy, etc.</p>
<p>also check out other instate local community colleges, which may offer online courses, particularly if your local cc is full. Yes, online courses can be difficult for someone struggling, but that is another option. Just make sure that such online courses are transferable, such as to your instate public Uni.</p>
<p>You might not be ready for college right now. Not every student is ready to go to college right after high school. Bombing out now doesn’t mean you’ll bomb out if you return a couple of years from now. You might be better off getting a job and stop beating yourself up trying to be the great student your parents expect you to be. Maybe you just need to ripen a bit in the real world and return to school when you are ready to return and do it on your own terms. It doesn’t feel like it now, but this may be a blessing in disguise for you. Give yourself the time and space to air yourself out and really think about what you want to do with your life. Maybe college is a part of that, maybe it isn’t. Deciding not to go now doesn’t mean you won’t be ready a few years from now. It is not the end of the world. Good luck!</p>
<p>You have received some good advice, and I hope you find it to be helpful.</p>
<p>Additional considerations–What is your career goal? Can it be reached without a bachelor’s degree? In other words, do you want to earn a bachelor’s degree because your parents assumed you would, or because it will help you move on to the next step in your life? </p>
<p>Also, do you know why you were able to be admitted to a top college but not able to maintain a 2.0? (You don’t have to tell us why; I’m just asking whether you know.) Your answer could help determine whether going to community college now is a good idea or not.</p>
<p>I agree. Again, the CC counselor, or another counselor (perhaps one at your present university–take advantage of those resources while you have them!), may be able to help you work through this. You don’t have to tell us, but it is important for YOU to know, because if it’s a motivation question, or other issue, Shokolade is right. It might not be the time.</p>
<p>sorry your parents are not supportive. I feel you put so much pressure on yourself that you couldn’t perform. You need to tel them though, despite the situation, since they’ll learn and it may be worse. really sucks</p>
<p>*My parents will hang me. They’re the absolute last people I want to talk to. They made me set extremely high goals for myself which I couldn’t begin to reach.</p>
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<p>What do you mean?</p>
<p>Do you mean that you started college taking too many hard courses? If so, why didn’t you change that once you got your first semeter’s grades? I can understand if this happened one semester, but not again and again.</p>
<p>What do your parents think your grades have been over the past few semesters? </p>
<p>Is the reason you can’t talk to them is because they’ve been led to believe that your grades have been better than they are?</p>
<p>If you had the ability to get into a ‘top college’ then both you and the college believed there was a great chance you would be able to succeed there. It sounds as though the college gave you a fair chance to succeed. I agree with others that suggest you need to understand why you were unable to succeed when there was every indication from your application that you would be able to. If your parents knew of your academic predicament then they have been more supportive than many (mea culpa) would have. If that is the case, they’ll likely be more supportive now than you give them credit for. If they were not aware of your academic predicament, well, I can understand your reluctance to tell them now. Nonetheless, you need to let them know because it is better that they hear it from you than if they hear it from some other source…Good luck.</p>
<p>Probation for four semesters? At my university, probation lasted one semester. At the end of that semester either you’d pulled yourself together or you were expelled.</p>
<p>Do not attend any more school than is necessary for loan deferment until you figure out what the problem is. Develop marketable skills in case you’re not able to obtain a degree.</p>