<p>so, here's my situation. I'm currently at a state school in Utah, and pretty miserable. Though I've been here a year, I started off as part time, so at the end of this semester, I will only have 29 credits. I'm taking 15 in the spring, but I'm not sure if schools will take that into consideration.</p>
<p>My GPA is very low, hovering around the 3.0 range. I recovered and got a 3.5 in the spring, making the deans list, but cumulatively, I failed a class or two and Im still recovering from that. I also scored poorly on the ACTs both times I took them back in high school. I am totally blind, so this definitely factored into it. My overall high school GPA was also only a 3.4.</p>
<p>I am really wanting to transfer to a private smaller school, but Im just not sure its possible. I really like the sound of Whittier college, but I just need you to tell me if I should save my breath and stick it out here until gradschool. Be blunt with me, basically.</p>
<p>As is, there are very limited resources for disabled students at my school, and unfortunately, a liberal arts college could potentially have even less. Im really just hoping that I could find more of a sense of community outside this state. I was also looking into the UC system, until I saw the complexities involved.</p>
<p>You’re a very special case. I would contact Whittier, or whichever school you wish to go to, and ask about their accessibility.</p>
<p>I think you can definitely transfer. The question is which colleges will offer you admission and also which college will be a better place for you overall.</p>
<p>For disability services, be sure to call around and find out what is available at each of your target colleges.</p>
<p>In terms of you finding a “sense of community,” I want to caution that no college automatically has this and even when a college DOES have this sense of community, plenty of students will miss out on it because they don’t know how to go about and find it. Community comes about from joining in on activities at the school (or at a church or community group) - a choir, a newspaper club/class, an activist group on campus or off, a poetry reading club on or off campus, a writers club, a church ministry or outreach, community theatre, etc. The reality is that college sweeps by in about 4 or 5 years for most students and they never find “community” because they don’t join groups. And then the same problem happens again outside of college because often the workplace doesn’t yield community necessarily either. Need to join stuff, lots of stuff, til you find that sense of community at you current college and/or your new college.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Hah. I doubt I’m a “special case.” I do appreciate both of your responses though. Definitely food for thought.</p>