My name is Angel I graduated in 2012 with a decent GPA 3.5 so about average went to community college starting in 2013
2013 - So around that year I got a DUI when I was 19 (I know dumbest decision I have made in my life) and could not complete classes so I dropped a couple and got around 3 W’s
I went back to school from 2014 - 2015 taking some classes but with the court stuff I had to deal with and the increasing anxiety from it all I had again dropped classes and also finished some but once again managed to get 6 more W’s through those years.
2016 - Now here I am once again made it through half of the semester I dropped 3 classes but days short without W’s and get 3 more. I have had issues with anxiety but I am finally getting better with counseling and stuff just wish I could have made that decision earlier in my academic career.
13 TOTAL
I feel like I have honestly screwed up my whole academic success with everything I have done prior to now. My other grades are not bad that I have taken in the past I get A’s and B’s. Does anyone know of anyone that has as many W’s as that and can actually get into a university?
Im a Music Composition Major and talented at playing, I just feel like they will look at my transcript and be like “well this kid is a slacker and cant make it in university”.
I have quit partying and even really going out anymore and am trying to push myself even more to achieve strait A’s to boost my GPA. But I dont know if its to late for me.
So my question is - Does anyone know if I can still make it to a college at all? or are my chances just shot. even If i get strait A’s and B’s with those W’s?
Any advice would help. Thank you for reading this guys.
Yes thats what I mean by focusing on getting A’s and B’s and ya I meant the deadline passed to drop without a W
sorry for the confusion. But thank you for replying.
There is no point in wasting time wallowing in regret. The choices that you made are the choices that you made and you have to live with the consequences. Your only option is to do better from this day forward. If you truly work hard to pull your life together, that will be reflected in the transcript data to come and the connections you make from now on.
I think you should eventually go back to University, but only when you are ready to succeed.
When you look for Music Composition jobs, I imagine it is more about the quality of your compositions and less about your transcript.
So get your legal matters and your anxiety under control, and when you are ready, return to school. Finish up the last semesters with no interruption. Then if anyone asks you just say “I had some health issues that are now under control. As you see I have finished the last two years with a 3.5 average.”
Take your time. I messed around for three years at CC, dropping classes and going to the beach. Then I finally buckled down and got a degree. Took me six years. I never worried about the Ws, failing is worse. When I finally grew up, I got great grades and a degree at the end of it. You do what works for,you, and don’t worry about how long it takes. Just keep going forward, no matter what, and get that degree. I reinvented myself in a new career in middle age, but I couldn’t have done it without a degree. You have plenty of time.