<p>When I was a high school junior, I took a duel credit class with my local comm. college for a spanish credit. However, I was a slacker in high school, and nobody told me how important it was to keep my grades up. I'm not sure if it was a withdrawal or a flunk, and now I'm worried. I requested a transcript and am nervously awaiting its arrival. I know that I will have to report this to my current community college and it's going to affect my GPA and I'm really kicking myself in the butt right now for it.</p>
<p>Flash forward 6 years. I have all A's (so it would be a 4.0 without that big fat F), have a handful of EC's and WAS intending on transferring into a university's liberal arts program like University of Texas's, but now I'm not so sure if this one flub in high school will ruin my chances. </p>
<p>Has anyone else had to deal with something like this? Were you successful regardless of something that haunted your past? Any advice that anyone is willing to throw my way? I'd really, really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I asked about this awhile back. On the common app for transfers, it explicitly says to list all college course work taken STARTING WITH FRESHMAN YEAR. so you dont have to report.</p>
<p>Really? I know schools vary on the requirements. I always assumed it was ALL college coursework you may have been given credit for, regardless of when it was, but then again, I could be misreading it.</p>
<p>that was what knowledgeable members such as Andale and Entomom told me.
My courses didnt show up my HS transcript, and essentially did not end up being used towards any degree, so it might be a little different</p>
<p>I know that once you ARE accepted as a transfer with over 30 hours, you submit your high school transcript as well. So, regardless, that will show up on there (unless the professor dropped me, which I’m not sure of yet). I’m just wondering if anyone has dealt with a similar situation such as this and if they had any success in being accepted somewhere. I know that it’s a 6 year gap, and maybe it will show that NOW I take my school seriously, but a GPA is a GPA.</p>
<p>I don’t think that blip is going to hurt you much, especially since you’ve clearly demonstrated you are serious about your academics. I think there is a poster on here who in a non-traditional student who had a so-so record a few years ago and ended up getting in to a decent university. I can’t remember his name though. </p>
<p>Like the other posters in this thread, I was also under the impression that all college coursework should be reported. I took some courses while I was in HS and was told to report them both when I applied for freshman admission and when I applied for transfer admission.</p>
<p>“List all other colleges or universities, including summer schools as well as summer and other programs, you have attended, beginning with your first year of college.”</p>
<p>Just for my own edification: if you apply for transfer to a school that uses the CA is there anywhere you can list college courses taken while in HS? I imagine it would be especially important for an applicant who took a course that is required of transfer applicants. </p>
<p>The CA wasn’t used by any of the schools I applied to back in my day so I’m really not familiar with how it works.</p>
<p>There’s nowhere on the transfer CA to write down college courses taken in HS (see the link above). I’d recommend sending a transcript from the college that you attended during HS and send a xerox of the course description(s) as well. They will be able to tell by the dates that you attended as a HS student. When my D applied for a transfer she did this (it was only later when the question came up here on CC that I realized that as a transfer, you don’t HAVE to send transcripts from college courses taken in HS).</p>
<p>Hmm, that’s very useful entomom. I do know that compared to my ACC (austin community college) transcript, my ONE class from high school will be on the separate transcript when the time comes for admissions to scope it out. I really hope the weight of my current grades will just almost ‘overrule’ that class in their minds. But then, that’s me and my fantasy world.</p>
<p>I’m beginning to think I should speak to an advisor from some prospective schools about this issue. What do you think would be the best way to bring it up with them?</p>