What should I do?

Transfer Students
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<p>How's it going everyone?</p>

<p>I've been a long time lurker, but finally decided to register. I've been trying to find out what I am going to do with my "situation". Please bear with me here, it may be a bit long. :)</p>

<p>Basically, I did horribly in high school. I never cared about my grades, or was interested in even trying. The classes that I had my interest, I always had at least an A. Then I made a very big mistake, and had to withdraw out of school instead of being expelled. I immediately went and tested for my GED and scored really well. I then applied to the local community college, and went for 3 semesters. I completely messed that up too. I don't know what was up with me, I didn't go to class, and when I did, I didn't care and just slept. I withdrew out of most of my classes, and got an two F's in the courses that I didn't withdraw. I had a federal aid, and all my studies were paid for here at the community college, but I went and lost that because of my stupidity and actions. It's not like I can't do the work, because I never had trouble with any of the material, in college or high school. I was just lazy. I could have easily walked out with a 4.0 in HS if I had given worked for it. I only took the SATs once, and got a 1536 total. Should have definitely redone them.</p>

<p>Fast forward a little bit, I've been working a crap job part time while I re-evaluated what I needed to do. Here, I realized what my lack of interest, and lack of determination was. It was simply that I wanted instant gratification, instead of having to deal with classes that I found useless and boring. Stupid no? I wanted a career, that involved going to college, but without doing the work. Crazy? Yep! </p>

<p>Anyways. Here I am today. I am finally determined to excel, and am ready to throw out my social life and freedom, in order to reach my goal.</p>

<p>Currently, I have a few choices.</p>

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<li><p>Go back to the community college, and pay for it myself, or get a loan, and redo the classes that I did badly in, and use that new GPA to my advantage, and apply to the colleges below, and maybe some others.</p></li>
<li><p>I'm currently applying to East Stroudsburg and Kutztown University, and am hoping I get accepted there, and do well there. My issue here is I don't know if I am required to list myself as a transfer, because I don't want them to see the community college things. Can I apply as a freshman? My PASSION would be to go to Lehigh University, but I think I have a lot to fix to get there.</p></li>
<li><p>Become a bum...(Sarcasm).</p></li>
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<p>Help me out guys? Any advice? Thanks again!</p>

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<p>After 3 semesters of post-HS CC, you are considered a transfer student at ALL colleges. Each time you apply to a college, you are required to send your previous college transcripts. Here is the database that colleges use to check your past record:</p>

<p>[National</a> Student Clearinghouse](<a href=“http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/]National”>http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/)</p>

<p>I would suggest option #1, that will give you the opportunity to redo the classes you did poorly in earlier and demonstrate that you are willing and able to do the work.</p>

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<p>NCC isn’t that bad of a school.</p>

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<p>You’re right, it’s not bad at all. But their Computer Science and Engineering major is pretty sucky. I also am not after the associates degree, but a bachelors. Which they don’t offer.</p>

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<p>Ah, very true. Well, I’d say that it’s pretty easy to get into ESU (not implying that it’s a bad school), so if you’re looking to begin a 4-year education, that’d be your best bet. I believe Kutztown is a little more difficult as far as admissions, but again, it’s not extremely hard to gain acceptance. To answer your question about applying as transfer, I believe that you’re going to apply as a student entering their first year (as in no transfer of credits and no continuation of a degree from another school), you will be considered a freshman. I know that’s the case for many other schools I’ve looked into. However, I would honestly just call their admissions offices to be sure. </p>

<p>I really hope you eventually get into Lehigh. I’m positive that if you’re actually serious about starting a successful academic career, then you’ll end up there in the end. :)</p>

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<p>Thank you everyone for your answers, I appreciate the information and the support. Sorry that this response is quite late, but I haven’t been on. I have decided to go back to NCC and redo the classes that I failed, in order to at least walk out with a high GPA. However, within those bad classes are a buttload of withdrawals. Will that affect me negatively?</p>

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<p>I just registered because I saw your post and wanted to give you some good news. I was in almost the same exact situation as you are now. I did alright in high school, went to community college, did terrible, then withdrew from a bunch of classes. I too am pursuing a career in computer science. I decided that my 1.4 GPA at my community college wasn’t going to cut it when trying to transfer into a proper university. I decided to retake some of my previous courses while also taking a few new ones. I only took one semester with 5 classes and got all A’s. My new GPA was a 2.8 and so I applied to Kutztown. I just recently got accepted and i’m attending this Fall. So as you can see it is very possible and my 6 W’s did not affect my chance of admittance, I even spoke to admissions about the issue. I also recommend looking at the checklist for the Computer Science degree in the institution you are planning on attending and try taking classes that can be applied to it. I did this and made sure that all my courses transferred to Kutztown. If you have any questions about the whole process feel free to ask me, I literally just completed everything you are about to take on.</p>

<p>Best of luck.</p>