Poor Academic Record, New Beginning

Transfer Students
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<p>Although I have not attended college for the past four years, I have been in and out of a number of colleges over the past 10 years, mostly with very poor grades to show for it. The reasons for my poor grades was primarily due to sheer lack of focus on my priorities.</p>

<p>I am at a point where I want to go back to schooling with a serious mindset, especially as I know I am more than capable of doing excellently well at school. However, I am bothered about my past academic record now that I have found a good community college to start from. </p>

<p>I wish to start on a clean slate at this college, free of the embarrassing grades from 4 years ago. Although I know of colleges where students are given the option of excluding prior academic records from their application (e.g. Purdue Calumet), I wonder if other schools have similar clauses.</p>

<p>Secondly, how bad is it for one to exclude academic information from previous colleges from his application, specifically when those grades actually have no bearing on one's new academic path - apart from the facts that the grades are just plain awful? I really want nothing to do with those grades! :-(</p>

<p>I attended at least FOUR different 2-year community colleges and ONE 4-year university in the last 10 years. The grades in the time I attended those colleges are horrible and I don't think they can help my case at all. But I may be wrong, which is why I am here. Please share your ideas, thanks.</p>

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<p>I would go to another community college and start new from there, stay there for two years and study your but off if you’re really serious about changing. Good luck in whatever you do!</p>

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<p>Whenever you apply to a college, you are required to include all transcripts from previous colleges you have attended. Colleges use this to find your educational history:</p>

<p>[National</a> Student Clearinghouse: Degree verification & enrollment verification](<a href=“http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/]National”>http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/)</p>

<p>Go back and retake the courses you did poorly in.</p>