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<li><p>Late last year I suffered a misscariage, this has really affected me. </p></li>
<li><p>Due to above reason all of my priorities and focuses have changed. I no longer want the path I wanted before, and I just would like some time for myself so I can fully deal with it and refocus myself.</p></li>
<li><p>I'm not doing well in school. I did very well my first semester, decent my second semester, and **** this semester. </p></li>
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<p>I am wanting to know all the effects. ( good and bad) the semester off will have. I want to know if it will affect me being able to go back, student loans and future careers. </p>
<p>I plan to rerun next fall with new drive and a new major :) thanks all! Love!</p>
<p>If you an afford it, take as much time as you need.</p>
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You’ll have to check this with your school. Most colleges make it fairly easy to come back from a voluntary leave of absence after 1 or 2 semesters. If you take off more than a year, you might have to re-apply for admission. If the leave was involuntary, you might have to pass some hurdles to get re-admitted. (For example, if you were placed on an involuntary leave because your grades dropped because of psychiatric reasons, you might need a positive psychiatric evaluation and one term of good grades from a community college to be re-admitted.) </p>
<p>Check your own college’s policy before you leave.</p>
<p>Another point to consider are course sequences. Could you continue in your current This is predominantly an issue in sequential majors (e.g. physics or accounting). It also won’t be an issue if you decide to change majors.</p>
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Stafford and Perkins loans will enter their grace period (6-9 months) as soon as you are no longer enrolled in school. Once the grade period is up, you’ll have to start making payments. As soon as you are back in college, your loans go into deferment again and you won’t have to make payments. Note however that you will only get the grace period once. If you use your 6 month grace period during a leave of absence, you’ll have to start making payments as soon as you have graduated, whether or not you have a job at that point.</p>
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I have never personally seen a leave of absence affect someone’s career negatively. Quite to the contrary, if you work a job during your leave, you might even have a leg up over your classmates after graduation.</p>