Schools that do _NOT require good standing from previous university?

Transfer Students
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<p>To everyone,
Here is a list of colleges I received in a private message from a wonderful CC member who had also had a bad start at college. He wrote:</p>

<p>"Those that I have found to be in the more forgiving camp include:</p>

<p>American University
Hampshire College
Howard University
McGill University
Tulane University
University of California system
University of Colorado
University of Illinois
University of Vermont
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin".</p>

<p>Me again (this was not part of his private message), I have to say that I do NOT think it would help parents to cross these colleges off any ideal list just because they may be more flexible!
Since the college our son was forced to leave DOES require a “good standing” status and is not one I’d rate at all highly.</p>

<p>Furthermore, if you have bad standing at your old college, you will have your application looked at very carefully indeed. (Even by the more “forgiving” colleges.)</p>

<p>And that’s why you really need to be patient.
If you’ve messed up, you will need to prove it was a mistake, not part of your pattern-for-life!
That will take time (great grades at CC while you put a distance between the mistake and your future.)</p>

<p>From our family’s point of view, once we all accepted there was no quick fix getting back on track, it sort of started becoming easier.</p>

<p>We have also found that even colleges that INSIST on good standing may unofficially be more flexible. It can be worth trying to get a face-to-face interview with admissions staff (we did that, only AFTER a year of great CC grades etc) and explaining - this was true in our case - that the old college had a policy of never downgrading a dismissal from a “permanent” if any drugs whatsoever were involved. Didn’t matter what the seriousness of the incident was, or how many extenuating circumstances existed about who was actually responsible etc - our son’s old college had a very, very rigid policy.</p>

<p>However, once he was able to prove what he had learned from his stupidity and once his preferred four-year-college had thoroughly checked into the circumstances of his dismissal (and had his CC record to hand), they were prepared to alter their official policy and - at present - he has been permitted to submit his application to the new college.</p>

<p>This has also taken much patience!</p>

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<p>Do you have any good contacts with Professors at the old college? They might be able to contribute a good letter of recommendation that puts your mistake into context. If your reason for denial is not as scary as your vagueness might make it seem, I don’t think that you will or should be permanently excluded from college.</p>

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<p>“If your reason for denial is not as scary as your vagueness might make it seem, I don’t think that you will or should be permanently excluded from college.”</p>

<p>Jahaba,</p>

<p>Unfortunately, private colleges can indeed get very stubborn about permanent exclusions. They can - and will - refuse to budge from a policy of maintaining the terms of a permanent dismissal - even IF the disgraced student goes on to redeem himself at another institution, like a CC.</p>

<p>But you are half right about a letter of recommendation.</p>

<p>When our son unsuccessfully applied to his old college just to have his permanent dismissal punishment “softened”, he had a long and cordial meeting with his old dean.
He was told “your permanent dismissal still stands” BUT he did manage to politely argue his case & let the old dean know exactly what he had achieved since being booted out.</p>

<p>We think that this definitely helped him when he came to reapplying to other four year colleges. (As I said, getting back on track tends to be - or it has been in our case - a long term project.)</p>

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<p>My brother completed an undergrad double major with a 3.97 gpa. He then completed an MA from the same university. Then completed an MA from an Ivy League university. He then completed another MA from another major university. He was in a Ph.D. program, nearly completed, from the first university where he completed his BAs and first MA. He was expelled from the program because he plagiarized on the rough draft of a paper. He admitted this and did not give any excuse. I know that he was undergoing severe depression at the time and that was the cause of his problems. This was five years since his expulsion and he wants to finish his Ph.D. in the USA or elsewhere.
He has published severe academic articles in scholarly journals in the past few years, gotten treatment for his severe depression, gotten remarried, and works for nonprofits. I know little of the academic world, but can he ever get back into a Ph.D. program anywhere and feel he is doing what he should be doing?</p>

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<p>Hold up - is this true? You need to be in good standing from ALL previous universities you attended? How the hell does that work out?</p>

<p>I left the first school I went to because I hated it there and was on academic probation. I’m now at a CC with straight A’s. A school might disqualify me because I wasn’t in good standing at the first university?</p>

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<p>So what did finally happened? Did you graduated? Was any other college kind enough to take you back?</p>

<p>I’ve been out for nine years now, and hoping to be allowed into a university soon. I failed both my Chemistry and calculus classes, and I was academically disqualified :-(</p>

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<p>Please use old threads for information only, don’t post and resurrect them. Instead, use the New Thread button to ask your question.</p>

<p>Also, if you click on the member’s name, there will be an option to look at their posting history, the OP has not been active since 2009.</p>