<p>Hello everyone, this is my first time posting on College Confidential. I've been asking this to a lot of people around me, and have been getting so many different answers, so I decided to post it on here. But anyways, here is my situation. I recently graduated high school last year and my GPA, to be frank was terrible (in the 2.0 range). The blame for this rests solely on my shoulders, however I did have some events happen to me that were out of my control. My freshmen year in high school, I served as class president, and on the student council. But in the middle of my freshmen year my father became disabled, eventually passing away about the third quarter of my junior year This affected me a lot academically throughout high school, as he primarily relied to me to help him out at times (calling me out of school to take him to the hospital, ect.). This affected me emotionally really until I graduated, I was very close with my father. Anyhow, my junior year I got a 24 on my ACT (If I retook it I am confident i would receive a 29+ as I took it on about an hour of sleep a couple months after my father passed) and in my first year of community college i took the SAT and received a 2080. I am currently enrolled in community college, and I have fallen in love with the college atmosphere. I love the independent atmosphere, and school is now something I look forward to rather than a 7:30 Am-3:15PM drag as it was in high school. I am maintaining a 4.0 through my first semester of 13 credit hours (4 are from a remedial math class), and I'm confident I will keep this 4.0. I am planning on enrolling in 15 credit hours next semester (all non remedial) and doing the same. I would be a first generation college graduate in my family, and my dream is to be able to transfer out to University of Colorado, Boulder. I visited Colorado a few times in the past month an have fallen in love. I have other schools there in mind (University of Denver, CU Denver, CSU) but CU Boulder is absolutely my first choice by far, if at all possible. If I were to apply for a transfer the fall semester, do I have a chance or is this just wishful thinking? If it is wishful thinking, what can I do to improve my chances? I want to double major in Poly Sci and econ, and I realize that CU boulder admissions are not overly selective, but I feel like my high school GPA is going to come back to haunt me. Thanks in advance for any answers, sorry for the lengthy post.</p>
<p>One more thing to add to this, I have been hold down a job continually since my 16th birthday Throughout High school I have usually been working 30+ hours a week. I don’t know if this helps my case or not.
And in case I wasn’t clear before, I’d be attending anywhere in Colorado as an out of state student, I am from Illinois.</p>
<p>Bump… Anybody?</p>
<p>I’m no expert, but it seems like your story accounts for the sub-par academic performance, and you’re doing much better now. So yes, I think you have a chance.</p>
<p>Bump… I’ll chance anybody that chance’s me!</p>