<p>I was a 3.9 student at Rutgers College within the Rutgers University-New Brunswick campus when I had personal issues affect me in my Junior year. After a dismissal, what do I do? I could easily get a 4.0 at a CC now, but some schools won't even accept transfers who have completed more than 90 credits (e.g., UC)! What do I do? What's the best school I could transfer to?
780 CR / 610 M</p>
<p>I want to do better than Rutgers this time around, if possible...</p>
<p>What do you mean by Academic Dismissal? Were you caught cheating?</p>
<p>No. Academic dismissal means that his cum. gpa was lower then the required amount. As to doing better then Rutgers it your choice, but is it going to be hard due to the fact that your transcript will say that you have been dismissed.</p>
<p>Kind of--dismissal wasn't over my cum. GPA; Rutgers College puts you on probation for a GPA falling below 2.0 for any one semester (again, it was sudden and due to personal matters), and then they require you to do a summer session to get off academic probation (but everything was still a mess, so I didn't make the necessary recovery during that session).</p>
<p>But if the GPA was solid for the first two years and there was a personal matter causing a sudden nosedive, would proving myself with a solid 4.0 at CC be enough to get me back into a top 50 school? What do people DO after something like this?</p>
<p>no, most schools require letters of current good standing from all of your schools. if you are still on probationary standings, you are not on good terms. honestly I would say you need to go back and get off of academic probation. it is one of your only options (or at least your best)</p>
<p>Is there any way you can write a letter to your dean saying that you had personal issues to deal with and see if they can make an exception. AdamM412is correct, a 4.0 at a CC will probably not make the fact that you were dismissed.</p>
<p>When were you dismissed? I'm in a similar position as you, except I was dismissed mid-sophomore year from RU and just last semester I graduated from CC. I was under the impression that for transfer, they just require good standing at your current college. I hope I'm right.</p>
<p>some colleges do not require a letter of good standing from each university of college you have been to but if you check transfer requirements they should tell you. I know that only 1 of the 10 schools I'm looking at do NOT require a letter from each individual school.</p>
<p>Of all of the schools I've looked at/applied to, they only wanted a college official's report/letter of good standing from my current college.</p>
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I was a 3.9 student at Rutgers College within the Rutgers University-New Brunswick campus when I had personal issues affect me in my Junior year. After a dismissal, what do I do? I could easily get a 4.0 at a CC now, but some schools won't even accept transfers who have completed more than 90 credits (e.g., UC)! What do I do? What's the best school I could transfer to?
780 CR / 610 M</p>
<p>I want to do better than Rutgers this time around, if possible...
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<p>So, you could not obtain a "W" for anything? That is a blessed shame.</p>
<p>What are the exact rules for academic dismissal at your College? Is there any way you can still qualify for some form of financial aid and then start taking the courses you earned a poor mark in over? Is there any ethical loophole for your dismissal? </p>
<p>Is there anyone you can speak with? I am not trying to be nosy, but were you really ill or something? If you were, then you should try and see if you can appeal their decision. In order to appeal this, you would need written documentation and then you would have to speak to the powers that be. It might work. I have made pals of folks who were horribly affected by Hurricane Katrina who had to appeal a thing or two with regards to their schooling. </p>
<p>Also, have you looked at lower tier schools? I hate to say this, but a lower tier school might work with you and that would be better than nothing. Some lower tier schools have programs which are like little degree completion programs for folks who have transferred around a bit. Over at the public University where I live, that is called a University College major. It is a but a wee program where you put all of your stuff together and create a major out of what credits you have. Again, this would be better than nothing, that is all I am saying.</p>
<p>Lastly, get a hold of your transcript and see what it says. Does it say: "academic dismissal" or what? You never know, really. It would be worth looking over your official transcript and maybe even speaking to the registrar about what you might be able to do, who knows? The most important thing is to not give up hope, OP.</p>
<p>Many schools have a policy of reinstatement after dismissal. It may require taking classes but not matriculating toward a degree for a semester, to prove you are back on track. You should check with academic advising at Rutgers for their specific policies.</p>
<p>I guess I could go to CC and try transferring with only that school's report, but I am not thrilled about wasting 75 credits earned at RC with a good GPA. I am under the impression that once you are dismissed after not bringing up your grades as required during the probationary summer session, it's not likely you'll get readmitted to Rutgers. Maybe that will change now that the individual schools have been merged into one, because Rutgers College was the most selective under the old system. </p>
<p>I know beggars can't be choosers, but I'd like to NOT end up at Rowan or Montclair State or Fairleigh Dickinson or Monmouth U or Richard Stockton, if at all possible. So I am wondering if any of you can tell me what IS possible?</p>
<p>Here are the policies.</p>
<p>"Is there any ethical loophole for your dismissal?</p>
<p>Is there anyone you can speak with? I am not trying to be nosy, but were you really ill or something? If you were, then you should try and see if you can appeal their decision."</p>
<p>No ethical loophole--it went something like: Dean's List, Dean's List, Dean's List, Withdrawal, failing grades, failed summer probation session, dismissed. Screwing up means my cumulative average is now a 2.567. I submitted an appeal that the head of their psych center wrote for me, but the problem is that she didn't really even know me because I only showed up after I had been dismissed (which I shouldn't have even done because I was technically not a student anymore). So I think her appeal just said something like, "depression"--which isn't the whole story. But my alternative was to come in to some panel of people and stand up and give a verbal statement. That sounded pretty much impossible for me at the time, which may have been an indication to them that if I wasn't capable of doing that, I wasn't capable of being normal again in school. But I know I could NOW.... Honestly, I would prefer not to go back to Rutgers due to millions of other factors I won't get into, but I doubt my chances are good anywhere else, and they're certainly not good there.</p>
<p>sorry brand, but as an example, WUSTL's transfer application packet does include a section asking whether the applicant had been suspended or expelled due to academic reasons/non-academic reasons.</p>
<p>it may not be detrimental but the question will arise in many applications. You will be asked to include a short essay or answer as to the dates and reasons behind the action at fault. I've done my research with this as I was suspended for non-academic reasons at my first university. NYU also asks this, or something very similar regarding "good standing" at all previous universities.</p>
<p>ah yes that's right.</p>
<p>The Common App asks that and a lot of schools use the Common App, so...ya know.</p>
<p>"it may not be detrimental but the question will arise in many applications. You will be asked to include a short essay or answer as to the dates and reasons behind the action at fault."</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. That info is the sort of thing I am trying to find out! At least if that question exists on apps for schools as good as WUSTL and NYU, it means that people in my circumstance come back from it without necessarily ending up at some overpriced, non-selective local private school, or having to settle for their Associate's from CC.</p>
<p>As for it not necessarily being detrimental? Well, since your dismissal wasn't due to failing multiple semesters suddenly, I doubt that will apply to me...</p>
<p>Asking whether you've been dismissed and requiring a letter of good standing from all your schools are two different things</p>
<p>perhaps you should take a break from college, find work and do some community service type activities and find a program like Columbia's GS program. I know it wouldn't be ideal but it is another idea if directly transfering does not work out in your favor. The program isn't an automatic in, counting work geared towards your major I believe, but it's something to look into if you can't figure things out.</p>
<p>Dshjyd, some schools do both. actually, I fairly high amount of schools will do both.</p>