I need advice on transfering

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<p>Hello, I’m not too sure if I am posting this in the right spot. I have been seeking a bit of advice on what the best move for me is. I’m a twenty two year old graduate from a CC, AA in biology. I graduated in June of 2012, but I was looking at some of the transfer requirements for UF and UCFs engineering, and I still have to take some of those, but at my school it’s classified as “adult enrichment,” and I keep getting excess credit hours. When I was younger, there was a lot of pressure to be a full time student to keep my Bright Futures scholarship. So I’d take classes, even if I didn’t really need them. In hindsight, stupid, but what’s done is done.</p>

<p>I bombed trig, dropping my GPA to a about a 3.2. It’s not that it’s hard, it’s just that both of my mother and father were diagnosed with cancer and ALS respectively in late 2011, coupled with the burden of paying their rent and utilities and my own got to be a bit much, so I bailed out of trig. I retook it last (fall 2012) semester, but I ended up missing a lot of class due to a combination of working, driving to medical appointments and as ashamed as I am to admit it, depression. I’ve tried talking to the advisors at my school, but they’re really not that helpful, so I thought I’d ask the community at large. </p>

<p>I was thinking I could either slowly knock of the transfer reqs, or attempt to just transfer into the school and work with them from there. I understand that the requirements does not mean admittance, and I also understand that I just pay more in tuition for excess credit hours. I just don’t know what to do, my father told me just to “keep at it,” but I need to have a plan. I still have to take cal 1-3.</p>

<p>Bear in mind that I make about $20,000 a year, and I want to maximize my dollar as far as classes go. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post, even if you do not have anything to add. What would you do in my shoes?</p>

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<p>Are you a Florida resident? I went to Dade and that’s about as incompetent as it gets with advisors, but the head of engineering was amazing. You do have to do the coursework and at most CCs that means wasting your time doing them in an arbitrary sequence…speaking to a department head can get you around this though.</p>

<p>You can attend UCF or UF without completing all the requirements, but they may have a limit to how long you have to complete them. You’re going to pay more in tuition either way, so just do it at a CC. I’m having similar problems- except that I recently moved to NYC and the college system is foreign to me. And Trig also dropped my GPA to a 3.2. I took a combined Pre-Calc/Trig class and got a C. It was worth 5 credits. </p>

<p>You’re dad is right. It’s hard, but keep at it. If you’re still feeling depressed please see someone. I thought my depression was situational until July when I was diagnosed with bipolar 2.</p>