<p>I've been working full-time since I started at Rutgers, so I am really adamant about not letting the B.A. drift away after too many working years. The Columbia GS-type program is a great idea, but the problem is figuring out which school would take me. Thomas Edison U is a Jersey school that working adults go to complete their degrees, but I was sincerely hoping to recover fully after this.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd advise you to get back to school ASAP. You need to start building back your credibility, even if it means going to a community college. The sooner you start, the sooner you can recover from your situation. Also when you transfer out, you may even be able to qualify as an undergrad instead of a returning adult (which you usually become if you are out of school for more than 1 year).</p>
<p>My suggestion is to try for every school you desire, tell them what happened, schedule and interview, show them who you REALLY are, and hope for the best. Pick reaches, matches, and safties. find out transfer policies on all of the schools you are looking at and talk to the dean of admissions (don't worry, you will be anonymous). If, and God forbid, that whole process doesn't work out in your favor, consider a program like CU's GS program and similar programs for your future. Just remember, life isn't over. GYS together and go make it happen.</p>
<p>Dshjyd, I've been out for a little over a year, so I guess it's too late. I am concerned about the CC thing though since I have 75 credits, and with an additional 15, that would disqualify me for the many, many schools that claim they don't accept transfers with 90 credits or more. Perhaps it wouldn't be an issue if some of the CC or RU credits aren't transferable? CC seems like the most obvious first step even before I create a game plan, but finding out stuff like that 90 credit policy forces me to figure out my plan in its entirety first.</p>
<p>I believe if you are over the credit limit you will just lose a few of the classes you have taken already, you aren't disqualified from transfering.</p>
<p>Adam, thanks for the optimistic outlook. I just don't know what my reaches, matches, or safeties are! My dream would be NYU, honestly. But I feel ridiculous saying that after being dismissed from a less prestigious school! Talking to the deans of admissions anonymously is a great idea, though. I'm also going to go to the NYU transfer boards that people keep mentioning in that thread.</p>
<p>This has been so confusing because I don't know others with dismissals on their smart (if spinning) little heads, except for one girl who left for a year with bipolar disorder and ECT treatments. Obviously they let her back in, but what to do without bevies of doctors poking and prodding at me and offering up their formal vouchers of insanity in exchange for money and health insurance I don't have? Not to make light of bipolar disorder or anything like that...I am so lucky not to suffer with anything chronic and serious.</p>
<p>Where did you read that people with over 90 credits are not admitted?</p>
<p>When I checked out a few different (prestigious) public schools, I noticed many had that listed. Off the top of my head, UC schools mentioned it. I also presumed that it would be a non-issue since many of the 90 credits wouldn't be transferable anyway, but who knows? That's why I'm trying to gain some sense of direction from people who've already navigated this process.</p>
<p>I think the 90 credit limit isn't to exclude a transfer. It is to ensure that you have taken a sufficient # of credits from the degree granting school. So if you need 120 credits to graduate only 90 of your previous ones are transferrable TOWARD the degree.</p>
<p>Wow. Hopefully they mean transferrable credits. Well, I recently applied to a few schools after graduating CC and I should also be bordering if not past 90 credits. I'll let you know how it goes. RU dismissal really killed me too.</p>
<p>Mominva, that seems to make the most sense. I keep Googling for that page and all I find is UC stuff implying that line of reasoning. I can't find that original page for the life of me. Anyway, if none of you have seen anything like that at schools you've checked out, I'll gladly forget it!</p>
<p>Dshjyd, do you mind PMing me which CC you attended? I tried one immediately after dismissal and had to withdraw the first week because I wasn't feeling right yet, so I did not have the emotional skin to tolerate one of my repugnantly sexist teachers. I don't want to go back to that CC, if possible, although I am now in a state where I could tolerate any kind of ignorant dou***bag if I had to.</p>
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<p>I think the 90 credit limit isn't to exclude a transfer. It is to ensure that you have taken a sufficient # of credits from the degree granting school.</p>
<p>I couldn't remember which schools had policies like that, as I had viewed them late and tired one night, but I came across another one today: </p>
<p>"Vassar does have a maximum limit for considering applicants: once a student has completed more than four full semesters of college-level work, they are no longer eligible to transfer."</p>
<p>I can't for the life of me find the pages that made me think the same of UC, but I know I saw some other schools that have the same policy. I have 75 credits, so although some people would guess that it's better for me to show 2 strong semesters at CC after dropping the ball at Rutgers, I need to know which schools would only allow me to apply during/after one CC semester.</p>
<p>Please, advice? Can someone throw in any other schools they know that have credit limits affecting transfer eligibility?</p>
<p>Err, sorry, but I'm confused as to what stops you from attending a CC and then applying to a school and completely abandoning your Rutgers grades etc. Is this undesirable?</p>
<p>That's an interesting option, but to have made it into my junior year at Rutgers College and let all 75 credits go after having earned the majority of them with a 3.8 GPA seems awfully wasteful when I could hopefully find a good school that would allow both RU and CC credits to transfer. Any good school will need to know about my academic dismissal anyway, so if they're going to hold my pre-CC history against me, I'd like to bring alllll my RU baggage--both good and bad.</p>
<p>Unless there's something about this process I'm totally missing...do you know something I don't? I really am unfamiliar with what dismissed students are supposed to do. I'd like more advice if you've been intimate with this kind of situation.</p>
<p>Yeah it is understandable that you'd want to keep the good, even if it means taking the bad as well. I guess I just meant that it is a serious option if you really want to get into a top tier school (though not an easy one). Good point about them wanting to know about the academic dismissal, I guess if I'd done what I've suggested I wouldn't report it. Bad, bad me.</p>
<p>Haha...that seems to make sense, only someone else within the thread suggested that most (good) schools require disclosure. Am I getting that wrong?</p>
<p>Whether you're right or wrong, I'm just admitting that if I was about to completely sacrifice 2? years of hard work and a 3.9 at a good university, the disclosure would probably slip my mind. If I was going to retain the credits, though, the disclosure wouldn't even be a question - it's on the transcript.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, definitely. I think even if I went the crazy route and earned those 75 credits over again, if they found out I let the pre-CC school "slip my mind," I bet I could be expelled for applying fraudulently. How likely they are to find out about the prior school is debatable, but it's a non-issue for me anyway; at age 24, it seems insane to spend 2 and a half years reearning what I already have in order to spend another two years earning just my bachelor's degree. Unless that's what dismissed students like me have to do...eek...I'd like to talk to more students who have gone through this in their later undergrad years.</p>