Failing Junior/Senior year

Transfer Students
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<p>So it hasn't happened to me, but I do have this question: What do you do if you do well at a community college (ergo, 4.0) but once you transfer to your dream/the only affordable senior university, you instantly fail out the first semester or year?</p>

<p>What I see around here most of the time regarding failing is people who are probably in their freshman/sophomore years of college and they're failing pretty bad. What most people suggest to those people is to go to community college for a few years to get their GPA up and then transfer. But what if the whole process is reversed where, at first, you're a student who shows promise academically at a community college already and then end up failing miserably in the two years where it matters?</p>

<p>I simply ask because, although I don't anticipate failing, I'm on a timed, full-tuition scholarship that runs out after two years and it's the only way I can afford college to get the degree with the breadth that I want. Not making enough As in my first semester could mean the end of my scholarship and I wouldn't know what to do then. I've got my associate's degree already to at least show that I succeeded in college at one point, so I guess that's a plus.</p>

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<p>You need a passing grade to graduate</p>

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<p>There aren’t really many options. If you fail a whole bunch of classes, you can stick around for a fifth year, which would be difficult in your situation. As the poster above me said, you need a passing grade to graduate. If you don’t pass, you don’t graduate. </p>

<p>You can try transferring to another school, but it’s going to be hard to transfer if you’re failing that many classes, and it’s likely that you’ll be on academic probation.</p>

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<p>I’m sure if you managed to keep a 4.0 at community college, you won’t flunk out now. You may not be able to maintain a 4.0 after you transfer, but I’m sure if you keep up your same type of study habits, you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>People seem to have the idea that community colleges are drastically simplified in comparison to the equivalent courses at a university. Obviously some community college in the middle of Arkansas isn’t likely to have the same caliber science or math courses as MIT or Caltech…but community college courses teach the same lower level courses that universities teach.</p>

<p>If you succeed in community college, the odds are that you’ll succeed in a university.</p>