If you already blew your second chance...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I hear all of the time that if you messed up in high school, that 2 year community colleges are your second chances at getting into a good school. well, the problem is that I was basically pushed into signing up for school by my parents(I just wanted to be done with high school, I had no plans for the future).</p>

<p>Well, I have officially spent twice the normal time that you are supposed to spend at a community college(I started fall 2007, Im about to enter my final semester(hopefully) for fall 2011). I did decent on semester one, then worse semester two with an f and a w, then I took a semester off, then I came back and did horrible, only passed one class with a d, the I was on probation, then another semester off, etc. etc....</p>

<p>I never was really focused on school for the first few years of CC, cause I didn't know what I wanted to do/ I was caught up in stupid ******** that didn't matter/ I had no motivation, but recently, after spending a few years in the real world, I realized that I am not stupid, and I do not want to be forced working jobs that I don't want to do. </p>

<p>So I lit a fire under my own ass and I just completed this past year with my best 2 back to back semesters, ever, I think (including grade school). An A,A,A,B+,B+,B+,B,F(stats) for the year.</p>

<p>But ANNNYYWAYY. Even though I've finally got my act together, is it too late? Will schools that I try to transfer to see my previous semesters as inconsistency and forever write me off? Hopefully if I do as good in this semester as my last 2, barring the F, I will maybe EDGE a 3.0, but I will still have alot of Ds, Fs, and Ws. Someone please give me some advice??</p>

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<p>First of all, don’t worry about how you’ve screwed up in the past, just focus on the fact that you decided to turn around. I know a lot of people that were on the same route as you, going absolutely no where. And guess what? They’re still no where. Even though I don’t know you, I am personally glad that you’re taking the right steps in life.</p>

<p>Now, schools will see your past, academic deficiency, and you won’t receive admission to top-tier, “good” schools (that is a broad term, so I am not really sure what you mean by it). I am really not sure of your full background from your post, but my advice is that you continue to raise your grades and try for admission to schools that you know would fit your achievements (again, I can’t give you really specific advice, sorry). Good luck!</p>

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<p>Kieran0696,</p>

<p>Thank you for responding. What I meant by “good” schools was like an upper level public school like a SUNY Stony Brook, Binghamton, Albany, New Paltz, etc. I am shooting as high as possible of course, but I know that private school is unrealistic both academicaly and financially, at least at this time. </p>

<p>Over the past year I’ve raised my GPA back up to a 2.5(I know, I know, but it’s better than it was before lol) and hopefully I can do very well this upcoming semester to raise it even further. I got involved in an extra cirricular activity for the first time ever, including grade school, this past fall when I decided to get my act together. I was a member of a campus activities club, and I held a chair position for the Spring semester, and I will return to hold it this Fall. Thats about it.</p>

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<p>Shoot for the moon; even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars no but really, with a GPA of 2.5 your chances are pretty low</p>

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<p>Does your college have any agreements with local universities? Many have agreements for automatic admission if they achieve certain gpa’s or even if they just receive their AA/AS.</p>

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<p>Yea, I’m pretty sure that all I need is a 2.5 and above to get automatic admission into some SUNY schools, but I’m not positive. One of my professors once described to me as “they’ll let you squeeze in, but if your not up to it they’ll find the first reason to kick you out.” Which I would totally understand, if I were to get the oppurtunity to go away to a University, now, I would absolutely put everything into it and use all my power to get the highest grades possible. I would understand the importance and fortune of me getting in and I would not ■■■ it up. If I were to fail, I guess it would be meant to be, that I’m not college matierial, because I would fail giving it a 150% effort.</p>

<p>But I checked the SUNY Albany website, and it says that itll only accept transfer students with a GPA of a 3.25 or higher into its business and accounting programs. But I wonder If I could get in with another program, keep building my GPA, and hopefully get into the bus admin program later on? Any more responses are greatly appreciated, thanks to all who posted so far.</p>

<p>So your CC record is your record forever huh? Damn, if I could talk some sense into myself when I was 14…</p>