<p>Financial services industry, but I have to see how I like it first though.</p>
<p>I am 48 and want to take advantage of the Return to College Program (RTCP)at Bard. Does anyone have any experiences with this program? I went to BArd about 30 years ago dropped and want to try this out. I'm concerned about the age difference - do the other students feel put off?</p>
<p>"Financial services industry, but I have to see how I like it first though."</p>
<p>What specifically are you looking to do? </p>
<p>Another "non-traditional" here. Starting CC this Spring. 23 years old, working in the Financial Services Industry with Morgan Stanley. Have a wonderfully successful career, but I want to change careers (staying in Finance.) HOPE to make it to NYU or Northwestern, but we'll see how the first year goes 1st I suppose.</p>
<p>I'm 32, married , 2 kids and Brazilian. I was admitted at Tufts University last semester. Tranfered from a CCC ( Monterey Peninsula College). My GPA was not so great. Less than 3.0. I took Macro=A; Micro=A; American Gov & Pol. =B and Italian=D. The Italian class was 5 credits and ruined my GPA. Good luck to you all.</p>
<p>P.S. I was also admited at Columbia and rejected at Brown. Didn't complete the Yale Application</p>
<p>i'm 22 and i've finished a degree already. im a springie in USC for engineering. i want to live in the dorms because its a bit cheaper and i'm international. i guess im pretty older than most of my would be classmates.</p>
<p>I'm a 24-year-old journalism student who's finishing up his associate's degree after being at a community college (Contra Costas College) for way too long. The fact that I was working in the PR industry half-time for the last three years didn't help.</p>
<p>I'm not applying to anywhere particularly competitive, mainly because I want to stay West Coast for financial reasons (WUE FTW!) and there's several strong-in-major public universities here.</p>
<p>Accepted at University of Alaska Anchorage, Cal State-Chico and Boise State University. Pending at University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of South Dakota and University of Idaho.</p>
<p>I'm 24, and will be getting my A.A. from a community college in WA state this spring. After screwing up at my first two colleges, I went back last fall ('06) with a take-no-prisoners attitude. I've got a 3.97...applying to the University of Washington and the University of Virginia (in-state and legacy at both). Hopefully things work out; I'll have fulfilled all course requirments at both schools, don't have to submit SAT scores, have 3 excellant reccomendations coming, good work/travel experience, etc., etc. Can't wait for decision letters this spring...</p>
<p>i'm an international student.
does that make me non trad?</p>
<p>what about international students from US-style community colleges in Asia?</p>
<p>Hey Famcos,</p>
<p>Were you admitted to Columbia's College of General Studies? Are you planning to enroll there? How was their financial aid package? What are your stats and EC's if you dont mind providing it. </p>
<p>I am looking into their program also.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>But regardless I am hoping someone sees this and can lend me so knowledge.</p>
<p>I am twenty-three years old, the last full grade of school I completed was 8th, after which I had a very un-tradtional High School experience. I ended up dropping out officially junior year and returned to get my GED three years later. In conjunction with my GED I enrolled and attended one semester of community college. My grades were good but I dropped out for mental health reasons, mirroring my high school experience. </p>
<p>I am now sober and my life is back on track, I have been clear of mind to realize how much I dream of going back to school and earning a degree. Problem is I don’t know where to start. I am hoping someone out their in cyber-land can relate and share some experience strength and hope on the matter, so that I may find a road map of sorts, to obtaining my degree and fulfilling my big dreams. </p>
<p>Any advice would help!
Thank you so much!
Jasmine</p>
<p>I would suggest going back to a community college and talking with an advisor. Also if you have to take any pre-college math, writing or reading classes (most of us do if they’ve been out of high school for a year or more) and are low income, a first generation student (meaning whomever raised you didn’t obtain a 4 year degree) or have any documented disabilities see if your school offers TriO which is a great starting point to see how you can obtain your dreams in college. </p>
<p>I just got into the ROOTS program at Portland Community College (Portland, Oregon) and already feel like it was the best thing I could have done for myself. TRiO gives you so many great resources, classes on studying, transferring to a university, financial responsibility, plus some grant money and some (like mine) offer workshops on applying for scholarships. </p>
<p>If a TRiO program isn’t available just go in and ask and advisor and look up non-profits that might fit your needs as well. You never know what type of assistance might be out there. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Have any non-traditional students out there transferred to Mills College? I graduated high school in 1999, and currently have a 3.65 GPA from my community college. I never took ACT or SAT’s because I never thought I’d go to college. Now I want SO BADLY to get into Mills I can taste it! Any insight would be awesome, thanks!</p>
<p>I’m definitely a non-traditional student. I dropped out my sophomore year of high school, and got a GED. I was a straight A student all the way through eighth grade, and manage to keep a B average the first half of my freshman year, but I more or less quite going the second semester of freshman year, then dropped out during my sophomore year of high school. It wasn’t at all due to any type of inabilities to do the work, but rather a lack of motivation and an indifference towards school. At the time, I just really felt like I had better things to do…partying, hanging out with friends etc… Now I’m 26, and in my first semester at a community college. I’m doing some remedial math right now, because I never took anything beyond pre-algebra in high school. Right now I’m in elementary algebra, so I’m playing the catch up game with math right now. I’m taking geometry and intermediate algebra next semester, and college algebra over the summer, so I’ll be ready to start trig next year, and then go on to calculus. I placed into english 101, so I don’t have to do any catching up in that area. Those are the only two classes I’m in right now, but I’ve got about a 98% average in both, so I’m doing well. </p>
<p>Next semester is going to be much busier. In addition to the two math classes, I’m also taking english 103, and intro to chemistry, plus taking a student success skills class, as well as the mandatory orientation class. I’m planning on majoring in physics once I get my math classes caught up, and transferring to a 4 year. I’m hoping I’ll be able to get into U of I Urbana-Champaign. Going back to school was a very good change for me…it’s leaps and bounds better than what I’ve spent the last several years doing.</p>
<p>UIUC is a great school, sounds like you’re on the right track. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I also just got accepted into TRiO, like you mentioned above. From what I’ve seen of it so far, it’s a great program. I’ll be getting all but one of my books for free next semester, plus getting a loaner laptop. The free private tutoring and counseling/transfer advising is going to be great…and I can’t wait to go on some of the campus visits they offer. They have trips to almost all of the schools that I want to apply to, which is awesome. In addition to UIUC, I’m also looking at the Illinois Institute of Technology, UIC and NIU. UIUC is definitely my main target though. I can’t wait until I get these prereqs out of the way, and I can actually start studying physics!! I’ll be starting it next year, assuming I get all of my math caught up by then.</p>
<p>comfortablycurt- I’m finishing up my third semester in community college and have 57 hours @ 4.0 GPA. I am 35 years old. I’m enrolled at UIUC for Computer Engineering in the Spring.</p>
<p>UIUC is not known for non-traditional students, but if you work hard you can get there.</p>
<p>Hi! I’m also a nontrad student looking to transfer schools after taking a health-related education gap. I was wondering if someone could chance me for a transfer to several schools. Any help would be so appreciated!</p>
<p>For my background, I was a good student through high school, achieving a 3.75 GPA and graduating with an International Baccalaureate diploma and bilingual honors. My SATs are lackluster at 2050, but my subject tests clock in at 800 for French and 780 for Spanish. I applied to several schools, and eventually matriculated at a top school in Canada. However, after experiencing a traumatic event near the time of my high school graduation, I found it difficult to succeed at university. I suffered from PTSD, anxiety disorders, depression, depersonalization disorder, and at the height of my troubles I exhibited suicidal behavior. This, of course, took a pretty disastrous toll on my academic abilities…</p>
<p>By the end of my second year at university, I finally swallowed my pride (and my 1.89 GPA…) and decided to withdraw from school to recover and reassess my plans. I came home and took classes at an extension/continuing studies school in my area. I’m now into my second year back home, and I’ve got a 3.7 cum GPA. Most importantly though, I’m finally feeling healthier and happier, and I’ve learned how to cope with the fallout of the trauma. 
Now, I’m trying to head back to finish my undergraduate degree, though I’m applying to several different schools that I believe will provide either a) better opportunities in my area of academic interest (East Asian Studies), or b) a strong mental health support system (just in case).</p>
<p>I’m currently applying to Wellesley, Smith, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Tufts, BU, Hamilton and Wesleyan. I understand that these are all pretty long shots with my background, but I hope my application will attract the interest of admissions officers in one of two regards.</p>
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<li><p>I come from a very multinational background. My mom is Filipina-Spanish and my dad is German. I speak fluent English and French, conversational Spanish, and am currently studying Japanese and Mandarin (I spent last summer in Beijing on a Mandarin language exchange). I grew up living abroad (Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo), which really framed my outlook on the world from an early age.</p></li>
<li><p>Hopefully, admissions officers at women’s colleges will be more understanding of my history with sexual assault - and they will be able to see how it allowed me to grow as a person. I started volunteering with a sexual assault center as a support group facilitator, and am excited to join in schools groups related to peer education and counseling surrounding sexual assault and partner violence - and if those groups don’t exist, I’d love to create them myself!</p></li>
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<p>Besides these two facets, I look forward to two glowing recommendations from professors I have been able to get to know, and have been told that I interview rather well. Since I am within visiting distance from all of these schools, I am planning on interviewing with all of those willing to meet with me, and will be otherwise visiting all the rest. </p>
<p>Any feedback about the schools I’m applying to (if you go, how do you like it?), my chances of being accepted (crossing fingers!!), or stories from others who have had similar experiences would be awesome! Also, if anyone has suggestions for other schools I could look into, that would also be welcome.</p>
<p>eclark-Thanks for the insight. Hearing that you got into UIUC in a (somewhat) similar situation to mine is very encouraging. I’ve still got a couple years before I’ve gotta worry about it. Did you take your ACT’s before you applied? If so, what was your score, if you don’t mind my asking? Are you getting an associates before you transfer?</p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance!! I’d love to hear what you think about UIUC after you transfer.</p>
<p>I took the ACT after my first semester at community college but it was not required. My composite score was 32. I am not getting an associate, they require several classes that would only be considered electives in my 4-yr degree program.</p>