STORY:
I attended my first school at a university… after a couple semesters I decided it’d be easiest to attend a Community College to save money.
I went to the cc school for a semester and I withdrawn from the classes. I had an outstanding balance and never paid it off. ( I paid cash for the classes the first half but withdrew --i.e on a payment plan )
Decided to go back to the university… When I went back they had asked me if I went to any schools while I was away. I told them none I finished, and the financial advisor (MONEYYYY HUNGRY) told me thats ok. So, I continued school there.
THEEEEN. I decided to go to a different community college and I only told them about the university. So I’ve been attending this school for a semester. & I started using financial aid. —Which I had been using Financial aid at the university just not at the cc I only went to for a semester.—
So I’ve been applying or nursing school and never mentioned the cc since it was a semester and I withdrew classes. — Thecommunity college I’m at I finally found out W on your record counts.-- Anyway… I applied at this one school and they asked SPECIFICALLY for that cc transcript & I never put it on my application to the school. So, I logged into the school I only went to for a semester and found not all the classes dropped I HAVE 2 F’s. I am freaking out about it.
For one, I should of just put on my app that I attended that college but withdrew all classes.
So… What do I do. Pay the outstanding balance and send in the transcript and tell her I thought they were all W’s?
Respond to her email and tell her that I didn’t attend that school? And wait until she says she still needs a letter stating I didn’t go to that school? And send the transcripts in and say I thought they were all W’s?
I really don’t know. and for the college I’m attending now… what do I do? just send my transcript from that school and state I really did think they were all withdrawn and I didn’t know I had F’s… because I’ve taken those classes over already so I’m not too worried about the gpa. Idk… Im at a loss and very stressed out and don’t know what to do because another college I applied to I didn’t put that cc down… AHHHH
Do nursing students even get accepted if they have F’s on their old academic record?
You have to be honest and report all schools you attended and pay all previous debts. Integrity is as important if not more important than grades. Lying is committing an act of fraud which could get you expelled or have any degree rescinded years later.
There’s a national student clearinghouse that colleges use to verify the academic record of applicants, so they can find out your record whether you tell them or not. You’re supposed to provide transcripts for every other school you attended, and if colleges find out you lied they can reject you or withdraw your acceptance. If you try to cite FERPA and refuse to give them access to your records, they just won’t accept you.
Here’s a thought; why don’t you just tell the truth? As you’ve already discovered, they can find out even if you don’t provide the information, so you might as well complete your applications correctly.
You need to communicate with the place where you have Fs and find out why the withdrawal wasn’t taken care of properly. If it is their mistake, they might be able to adjust those grades.
You need to pay off all of your pending bills everywhere so that you can get official copies of all of your transcripts. Yes your history is a bit messy, and yes some of your grades are pretty bad, but there are other students whose records are even worse. The important thing is for you to get your records sorted out.
Thanks everyone. yeah I don’t know why the university told me it’s ok if I withdrawn the classes they didn’t need the transcript. I really thought I had all Ws on the classes. I’m stressed out now. I won’t be able to pay the balance until next refund check… so that might set me back going to to school to applying certain schools.
I never told any colleges I went to that school only because i didn’t finish out the classes and it was a semester. But aparently according to the transcript it says I went to 2 classes… this was 2 years ago so I don’t even know if that college will be able to do anything… maybe can they look at the attendance and see that I didn’t show up at all for the remanding weeks? Idk. Could it say F because I haven’t paid the balance?
I will try explaining what happened but I don’t know where that puts me on the colleges I’ve already applied to.
You wouldn’t have a grade of F because of an unpaid balance. It is more likely you have a grade of F if you just stopped attending and did not officially withdraw from the school. And even if you officially withdraw, that doesn’t cancel any financial obligations to the school.