<p>Hey I'm new here, so hello! Well I guess I'll start by explaining my story, I went to a community college a few years ago and I messed up pretty bad academically (Getting C's, D's and F's) pretty much because I took everything for granted. Don't get me wrong, I'm not stupid, just lazy (which could be a trait of stupidity). I recently applied to a new community college to have a fresh clean start, but I've recently found out that when applying to a University (I plan on attending San Diego State University) they require that ALL post high school transcripts be submitted. There is no way that it can be avoided and I don't plan on expulsion from the University if i did choose to omit it. My question to you guys is, has anyone experienced this situation and how did it go? If my grades for the next Community college is excellent would there be a way for them to look past that and will my GPA be affected? Oh, and please don't judge me, I've heard the "you shouldn't have screwed up in the first place" many times.</p>
<p>Why don’t you retake the courses you did poorly in?</p>
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Yes. This is exactly the scenario that makes them happy; student starts off poorly, comes to an understanding of what it takes to succeed in college, subsequently does well. An upward trajectory like this bodes well for admissions because they’ll take your later work as more indicative of how you’ll do.</p>
<p>Know, too, that as a CC student you get preference in admission to CA 4-year colleges. In fact if you are attending a CC in the SDSU service area you may be eligible for guaranteed admission; see [SDSU</a> I Want to Apply - Upper-Division Transfer and Readmission Admission Criteria Fall 2012](<a href=“http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/apply/124/trns.html]SDSU”>http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/apply/124/trns.html) Guarantee programs tend to change year by year, so it would be a smart idea to visit the xfer center at your new CC very early on to get the details. Sometimes if you’re enrolled in a program like this then the rules that applied when you entered college stay fixed even if they change for new students; I have no idea if that applies here, but its worth looking into.</p>