<p>Hi everybody,</p>
<p>I have gotten myself into a huge mess ever since I started getting into lots of schools. I've always been worried that I didn't have hard enough classes on my record and enough ECs but that ended up not being problem. Last semester, I narrowed it down to deciding between Jacobs University in Bremen, Drexel in Philly, and Purdue in Indiana. During that summer in which I was choosing, I sort of "knew" that I didn't want to go to Indiana because the location didn't suit me well (I like urban environments) and the size was a little large for my liking. I considered Drexel mainly because it's in a city and I have a good female friend nearby, in addition to it being an engineering school. I ended up being "forced" to attend Purdue because both other schools closed their deposit deadlines for me because I took forever to decide. Once the semester started, I unfortunately started feeling rather depressed there, not because it's not a good school or the people aren't nice, but because I missed that friend near Drexel in Philly. It's hard to believe, but I had intense difficulty doing well academically because of it. I got back into Drexel as a transfer, but as a provisional acceptance. It sounds sad, but I don't think I'll make the GPA requirement, because in Calc II, I got 28, 28, 42 (out of 100) and 126/200, I believe, and somewhat similar in physics (but maybe better, but I sort of blew the final exam) and a final grade of 70 in another class. I asked Drexel if I'd be able to attend the school any other way, either by testing out of classes or reducing the amount of scholarship money offered, or having a GPA requirement for my first term there in order to be able to stay. The response was that they need to see my transcript, or an unofficial one for now. I won't be happy attending college anywhere else, but I'm stuck because of this. The only thing that might help is the fact that there's a monetary hold on my transcript now, but I don't think Drex would allow me to wait until next semester to send the grades, because I fear they're very bad. I'm completely stuck and don't know what to do, as I don't want to go back to Indiana or stay in my current country (Panama) (I'm still domestic because I was born in the states). Also, I'm supposed to submit the enrollment deposit for Drexel but I do so, I want to be able to attend the school, and not not get the money back because of an unsatisfactory transcript. Does anyone have advice? Thank you in advance!</p>