Will I ever get anywhere? :/

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Quite honestly it feels like I’m not going to end up anywhere. Okay, so here’s the thing. I’m going to be 23 in about a week and been stuck in a community college since 2012! I actually started off pretty well. I had a 3.5 GPA and I was a club officer for about 2 years. We even won Club of The Year at one point, even when we started off being the smallest club on campus. Then about 2 1/2 years ago, my health got very bad but I tried to continue college. I ended up dropping out 4 semesters in a row though. 2 years of my life wasted. I now accumulated about 15-17 W’s. The classes I didn’t drop, I got an F in. So now I have 15-17 W’s and 3 F’s on my transcript with a GPA of 2.6.

It makes me feel horrible. Not only have I wasted 2 years of my life without an accomplishment in college, but my transcript is ruined. I plan on making up the F’s and hopefully that will bring my GPA back up to at least a 3.0 GPA. However, that doesn’t change the fact that I have all these W’s. If everything goes right this semester and the next few ones, then I should get 3 certificates by the end of this year. However, I won’t be able to make up one of the F’s until next Spring semester of 2018. By the time I am ready to transfer, I’ll be 25 at the new school.

Will I ever get anywhere? I mean, what university would even accept me with 17 W’s? Also, isn’t transferring at 25 a bit lame :confused: I seriously would have been in community college for 6 years.

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As long as your health problems are explained honestly, colleges will overlook those W’s and reward you for your tenacity.

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It is what it is. You were ill. Ws were necessary. It happens. Now you have to look at it as a “plan” and then execute it. One semester at a time. Don’t be overwhelmed.

My dad didn’t get a GED until he was 50, so see it as you being way ahead of some, not way behind! Good luck!

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It took me six years to get my degree. I was still young at the age of 24. There is plenty of life left in you yet and there is no time limit on getting a degree. Once you have the degree, it never expires. My degree got me my current job and I am 52. Keep calm and carry on:-)

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Yes. I have a friend who has schizophrenia and after explaining his illness in his applications, he asked for an interview to his dream college. And he later got in!

@Lindagaf Would you mind chancing me in my thread?