Unconventional Transfer Student

Transfer Students
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<p>Long story short, i have "attended" two different colleges, the 1st straight out of HS (2005) was a private 4 year college in NY, i did extremely poorly there for a multitude of reasons, with rebellion and being a reckless oblivious teenager as the main ones. Then I moved to FL, (2006) and enrolled in a community college for a year, but bombed my gpa there as well during the end of the 2nd semester due to financial, personal, and emotional hardships.</p>

<p>Now I have moved back to NJ (2010) after working fulltime for 5 years and I want to enroll at my local community college (accredited by middle states) which partakes in the "NJ Transfer" program that is honored/accepted by NJ state (public and some private) 4 year institutions. </p>

<p>Within that program, as long as you take all the requested transfer classes and maintain above a 3.0 gpa, and graduate with 1 of i believe 20 AA/AS degrees, you are almost guaranteed entrance into the 4 year institution as a "Junior".</p>

<p>My question to you all is: Is anyone here enrolled in a similar program, or have insight on how credits are transferred?: Specifically, I want my 2 years at the community college to be a CLEAN (i promise this time lol) slate and to be the only transcripts I send to the 4 year of my choice. I wanted to get some feedback regarding similar situations/stories and what your school's "AA/AS direct transfer" program's policy was... and whether or not once you showed completion of an AA/AS degree, you HAD to also submit prior transcripts.</p>

<p>Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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<p>Whenever you apply to an accredited college or university in the US you are obliged to provide official copies of your transcripts from every other accredited college and university in the US that you have ever studied at. Some community colleges will admit you without your previous transcripts, but once you become a degree-seeking student there (which you will be in your NJ Transfer program), you will need to provide them. You cannot create a “clean slate”. Sorry.</p>

<p>But, the good news is that you are a grown-up now, and you have grown-up goals and motivation. You are going to do so much better at your new community college that you will barely recognize yourself. When you apply for the transfer, the receiving university will look at your new good grades earned in your new frame of mind and they really, truly, won’t care all that much about those ancient bad old grades. Yes, they will need the transcripts for your file, but the grades on them won’t be that important.</p>

<p>Make an appointment with the counselors at your community college, and talk with them about your concerns about your old bad grades. They are experts at helping people just like you maneuver through the system. You will not be the first person with this question that they have spoken with this week.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>