<p>FERPA is a law that prohibits, absent your consent, any school from revealing your school records except for identifying info such as name and address. However, you cannot use the protection of FERPA to avoid providing your CC transcript or that you attended a CC to UColorado or to any college to which you apply. When you apply to a college, it requires as part of the admission process that you provide transcripts giving courses taken and grades from any high school or college you attended. To provide that information, you must request it be sent which request constitutes your waiver of FERPA rights. The only way you can enforce your FERPA rights in that situation is not to apply to the college. Your petition relating to FERPA does not change that rule.</p>
<p>You cannot apply to Colorado as a freshman because you already have CC courses and Colorado defines you as a transfer applicant as a result. If you try to apply as a freshman and conceal your CC history, you will be committing a material misrepresentation in the application process which, if the truth is eventually learned by Colorado, would mean your application would be denied, and if already admitted the admission will be withdrawn, and even if not discovered until the day before you graduate from Colorado, Colorado could expel you and deny you a degree.</p>
<p>In other words, if you want to attend a four year college, you have to apply as a transfer student and be up front with your CC history and provide grades. When you have an explanation for poor grades, you can provide that as part of the application in an essay.</p>