<p>I'm currently at my second community college. At the first, I was 17 and took it less than serious and failed two semester (24 credit hours attempted, but it was mostly the same 12 credit hours attempted in two consecutive semesters, so not sure if that still counts)</p>
<p>At the current, I'm got 24 credit hours with a 4.0. I should have 39 credit hours when I transfer to the THIRD school (The University) next semester.</p>
<p>From what I understand, the University will look at my previous GPA to decide whether or not I should be admitted, but beyond that I have a clean GPA slate for that school.</p>
<p>My question is: What happens beyond the 4 year institution?</p>
<p>Does the really bad GPA follow me around all the way to graduate school effecting my admittance? When I create a resume, do I include that crappy year at the first CC where I obtained no credit whatsoever or do I just include the second CC and the University where I actually achieved something?</p>
<p>First of all, you’re getting ahead of yourself. Go to your 4-year school, and do well there.</p>
<p>If you decide to go to graduate school, that university is not going to care if you had an 0.0 average in your first community college if you did get a 4.0 average at your second community college and then went on to a 4-year school and did well. They will primarily base your acceptance on your performance during your last two years of your 4-year college, and on what your professors there tell them about you.</p>
<p>With a resume, you can do it two ways:</p>
<p>BS in Mechanical Engineering, Northern South Dakota State University, 2014.<br>
GPA: 3.65</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>AAS, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Lincoln County Community College, 2012.
GPA 4.0</p>
<p>BS in Mechanical Engineering, Northern South Dakota State University, 2014.<br>
GPA: 3.65</p>
<p>Again, its way too early to fret about something like this.</p>
<p>For grad school admissions, your bad year will follow you. Also, if you failed the same class twice, it still counts twice. If you got an F twice in the same 3 credit class, you got an F in 6 credits. To my knowledge, all grad schools will require transcripts from every college you’ve ever attended without exception.</p>
<p>Edit: I disagree with the above poster. Of course the positive trend will be noticed and considered. The GPA they use for their admissions statistics, however, will still include your bad year. It sucks, but your GPA will go into the statistics for your entering class, and admissions offices are conscious of that. That doesn’t mean you can’t do very well, get near a 4.0 from here on out, do research and get great recommendations, be involved, and totally make up for the lower GPA. </p>
<p>You can put whatever you want on your resume, so long as it’s factual. If you choose to put only your university GPA on your resume, that is fine, as long as you don’t do it in some misleading way. Your university GPA goes under the section for that university.</p>
<p>Okay, so…</p>
<p>Maybe I shouldn’t worry about it. I do tend to get ahead of myself sometimes. Even if the bad year does follow me, I can work on getting my GPA up by focusing on future classes and, perhaps, even taking some extra classes to help boost it if I need to.</p>
<p>I guess I just think too much because I feel like I have very little control over what happens because of that bad year that I can’t take back.</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about Academic Renewal and whether or not a University can strike a semester or semesters off of your record if it’s from another institution?</p>
<p>If not, are you supposed to contact the previous that you did bad at to see if they’re do an academic renewal?</p>
<p>Off of transcript, out of mind. Vice versa is also true.</p>
<p>I wish it was off of my transcript. I tried applying to the University using the current CC transcripts only and they found out I had gone to two CCs and told me I couldn’t be admitted until I sent those transcripts from the first.</p>
<p>I’ve tried googling the words “Academic Renewal” with the names of the three schools I’ve been talking about and found nothing. So either none of the schools offer that or it’s just no posted on their sites for Google to find.</p>
<p>You’ll just have to ask your advisor if there’s anything you can do.
If you really want to go to grad school, you can always work a few years then go. That could only be a problem for MIT-caliber universities, and I think your original lack of work ethic disqualified you from a decent chance of going to those anyways. You might even prefer that option because some employers pay some tuition. Employers certainly don’t care about old grades if you could do a good job now.</p>
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<p>It’s not coming off your transcript. Grad schools are going to know, and there is no way around that without lying (and probably getting caught). Even if you do happen to go to a school that offers academic renewal, it erases nothing from your transcript and grad schools will not generally recognize it.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to do well from here on out and accept that you cannot change the past. Dwelling on this is not going to make your dreams come true, but getting your grades straightened out will. Maybe you don’t feel like you deserve to have this follow you for the rest of your life, but the fact remains: you failed for an entire year. That information is still relevant. The only way to prove that you have changed is consistency. In time, you might even be able to spin the bad year into a positive life experience with a good essay.</p>
<p>I see the point. I just wont worry about it. I can’t go back in time, but the future is in my control.</p>
<p>I applied for the University about an hour ago. You can apply for the Fall of 2013 as of right now. There’s a fee and a few documents I can send them now, and then all that will be left is the transcripts from the current CC that I’ll send when I’m done.</p>
<p>I don’t worry about getting in; They have an 86% acceptance rate. Honestly, I sometimes wonder how 14% don’t get in. Those people must be very ineligible, because it seems easy to get in. They “say” that you need this and that to get in, but if you talk to anyone in admissions or any current students you’ll find out that it you don’t qualify by the stated standards, they’ll just let you in under their “conditional admission” policy.</p>
<p>All of that is irrelevant to a response, unless someone wants to comment on it. From what I’m understanding, if I do good at the University, and I get my BSME, I should have no problem getting a job. Especially if I get help from the school’s career service in finding an internship. Seems like there aren’t many around here, though. I look all the time just to see. Anyone do any traveling for an internship? I’m talking state(s) away.</p>