<p>I'm posting this out of curiousity, really. I've been at community college since I graduated high school in '08 and my grades have sucked since I started. I was always taking a *<strong><em>load of classes while either working full-time or focusing my energy someplace else. College was never a main goal or priority and I am not sure why I keep going, though that's a conversation for another time (and probably a better trained professional.) So, my question is: With *</em></strong>ty grades, do I have a chance of getting into a good university in the future after bringing them up? My transcripts are something along the lines: </p>
<p>1st Semester
2-3 W's
2 F's
1 D</p>
<p>2nd Semester
2 F's
2-3 W's
1 C
1 D</p>
<p>3rd Semester
1 C
2 D's
2 B's
1 W</p>
<p>Obviously aspirations for Yale aren't realistic (unless the education system is more badass than I thought) but seriously, what are my options? Personal advice is welcomed, but again, this is mainly being posted to feed my curiousity. Say I were to take the classes over raise my GPA to a 4.0, for example. Won't the first, poor grade haunt me on university applications?</p>
<p>Honestly, college isn’t for everyone, and that’s perfectly fine. I’d recommend contemplating over whether or not you really want to continue your collegiate career before entering into the workplace. I seriously doubt that a change in location will exponentially increase your study habits/GPA. Lots of people live very fulfilling lives with no college degree and I think you should seriously consider that route if you already seem to think that going to college isn’t doing anything for you. You’re right by saying that you should seek professional help on guidance for this issue, but I just figured I’d toss in my $.02</p>
<p>I take it by “good school” you’re referring to either a private university or an upper-tier state college. Why worry about that. Personally, I graduated community college with a 3.7 GPA and didn’t think twice about entering into a “mediocre” state school. Why? Because it was the atmosphere that I wanted - something about pretentious private universities just makes my toes curl.
Judging from your grades and attitude about school, I dont understand why you’re so worried about going to a “good” school. Just focus on going to a school and passing and let the rest fall in place.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting. I’m not worried about going to a good school nor do I see a problem with state college (quite the opposite, actually.) I know college isn’t my only option, I just wanted to post these questions out of curiousity, as I mentioned in my original post. Thanks for the input though, I do need to figure out what I want out of college.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind applying a freshman, and tossing those grades out, you could probably get into a decent school. Some colleges don’t even give credit for D’s and F’s (emphasis on
“some”) anyway, so it may be better just starting over if you can realistically and financially are able to do so.</p>
<p>‘Badass’ colleges are ones who reward three semesters of failing grades with an acceptance letter? You better have a Nobel prize in your hand or something similar.</p>
<p>That said, you can get into a decent state school but it’ll be hard work. A near-perfect GPA from here on out and a lot of extra stuff on the side. Plus an amazing application essay.</p>
<p>Yeah, with the current college system being a joke, you can probably retake those classes, trade the F’s and D’s for C’s and B’s, and get into some kind of 4 year college. </p>
<p>but honestly, why bother? there are too many people in college as it is, and most are looking to get easy degrees in whatever so they can apply for entry-level positions for jobs that don’t require knowledge past 8th grade. People who learn a trade and get a certificate to be a carpenter or electrician make as much as the average college grad and have stable jobs. so if you’re just worried about money, I would go to trade school.</p>
<p>But if you’re interested in getting a college degree, then you already know what to do. You’re not asking because you’re curious, you’re looking for some kind of validation to see if you should even bother
I know a fairly smart person who just got all D’s and F’s because he was working full-time while trying to juggle a full courseload…it just doesn’t work. So if it’s possible, work part-time and then full time over the summer to make money. hope everything works out.</p>
<p>Your options are NOT limited, for college, or otherwise.</p>
<p>But you REALLY need to stop bogging yourself down with bad grades NOW.</p>
<p>You need to figure out how you can cope better with the circumstances that are causing you to get these kind of grades (whether it be your general mindset, or the fact you need to work full time, or whatever). </p>
<p>My suggestion is to take a year off. Work with a counselor/psychologist to hold yourself accountable to a plan which will be tailored to your needs, i.e. 1. Work X hours and save X money for school next year 2. Figure out what my problems are 3. Figure out solutions or better strategies to cope.</p>
<p>No one working full time and taking a ton of classes is going to do well in them. What are you thinking?</p>
<p>And no college is going to reject you if you take some time to figure out your issues, and fix them. Well, maybe Yale, heck, but plenty of Tier 1 state schools know that there are circumstances which prevent us from doing well in school (maturity, life obligations, whatever), and if you can show an adcom that you overcame those issues, then you are in.</p>
<p>But first, you need to overcome those issues.</p>