<p>About to get out of the Navy after serving for four years, and was looking forward to using my GIBill when I get out. Just recently, I took leave to visit the school I want to attend. While at the school, I ran into another Vet who told me to register as a transfer student.</p>
<p>I basically just wanted to ask, how much weight do they put in credits that are over 5 years old as a transfer. I failed a class that made me lose my scholarship. I also attended a few other schools for only a semester, and worried how that looks(these grades, I know arnt good, because I wasn't focused). I am just trying to apply to a community college, nothing really fancy.</p>
<p>Regardless of what is said here, I plan on applying, but just curious on what the opinion would be on my situation. Thanks.</p>
<p>While the community college might let you enroll as a non-degree student and take a few classes, the second that you become a degree candidate there you definitely will need to provide official copies of all of your transcripts from every place where you have taken college-level courses. Yup, it is a drag to run down those bazillion different transcripts, but that is the way it is.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, the older the academic record, the less it matters for current admission purposes. Don’t worry about that. Just carry in some unofficial copies of your records, and have a nice long chat with the admissions officers about your goals. They are there to help you get things sorted out, and they will be able to tell you if you need to re-take anything.</p>
<p>Wishing you much success in your new civilian life!</p>
<p>As far as being admitted into the school goes, prior academic performance does not really factor in when looking at a community college. You are required to turn in all transcripts from prior institutions mostly for determining your placement into college-level math and english courses and to ensure that you do not have to repeat any courses while at that CC. If it’s a public CC, then typically all you need to do to be admitted is meet the state’s minimum requirements which is usually to have a HS diploma or GED.</p>
<p>Of course, when you transfer to a traditional 4-year institution, then your prior academic performance will be taken into account. However, a lot more weight will be applied to your most recent academic performance (all your grades at the CC) than the performance of 5+ years ago.</p>
<p>I’d also like to point out, in case you’ve not yet noticed it, there is a Veterans sub-forum here on College Confidential where you can definitely ask questions about being a student-veteran and get all the low-down on using your GI Bill (Your GI Bill can be particularly cumbersome to navigate initially because no one actually explains to service members how the whole process works - just that it is there and ready to be used).</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>