Huge problems with transferring! please help!

Transfer Students
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<p>Well I just graduated high school last june, decided to take a semester off to backpack Europe, mom freaked out, forced me to take online classes from the local community college, since I mostly sleeping in train stations and such, I did not have a place of residence, could not get books sent to me, and the only internet access I could get was when I occasionally wandered near a hotel that had wifi, and stole it from them. Needless to say, this did not work out well at all, 3 W’s and a F. Thanks Mom.
Now, two things to consider, I live in L.A. and I want to get my masters in professional writing. The only school in LA that offers such a Masters is USC. (hence my name) I’m freaking out a bit, since USC does not appreciate 2 W’s and a F.
Keep in mind I am an exceptional honors student, and when I do get back to LA in a couple weeks, I will kick ass in school, deans list and all, for however the duration I am there (2 years of 3 if necessary depending on what I need to get done to get in the MPW program at USC.) I have heard a couple different things…</p>

<li>Don’t even try anymore, USC will automatically laugh at you when they see 2 W’s & a F</li>
<li>If you explain why that happened with your app, it will help them understand, and you wont be automatically excluded (especially if everything else is perfect, I.E. grades, deans list, letters of rec, work experience stuff.)</li>
<li>Explain what happened to your CC and they will wipe the grades.</li>
<li>(little unusual, I’ve never heard this) Just leave that CC right away, and attend a new CC, and whatever classes you took at your old CC wont count anymore.</li>
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<p>Since USC is the only school that offers study in my field, this is a big problem, come on guys and gals, input please!</p>

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<p>Since the courses were taken at an accredited community college in the USA, for the rest of your life whenever you apply to any academic program at any accredited community college, four year college, or university in the USA you will have to produce a copy of that transcript. What the college/university you are applying to will make of that transcript is up to them. The further you get along in your life and in your academic career, the less those first term grades will matter. So, from here on in you have no time for fooling around. You have to pick your classes carefully, study hard, and get really good grades.</p>

<p>As to the immediate problem of what to do next, if there is no college/university that will admit you based on your HS transcript despite a very rough fall 2008 semester, then your best bet is probably your local community college. After your grades have recovered, you can look to transfer elsewhere in order to finish your undergraduate degree.</p>

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<h1>2 is closest. However, you need to realize that you are working towards your Bachelor’s first and worry about your Master’s after you finish undergradute work.</h1>

<p>Use this [USC</a> ARR : Articulation](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/dept/ARR/articulation/]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/dept/ARR/articulation/) as your guide in choosing which classes to take. The better you do in USC approved courses for your community college, the higher the likelihood of being accepted. Admissions appreciates upwards trends substantially. Read through last year’s accepted thread and you will see that some of my accepted classmates in the lower range had a recent upward trend that helped their admission a lot. :)</p>