<p>Hello all.</p>
<p>I am going into my senior year of college. I managed to have an excellent junior year, getting a 3.8 and 4.0. I also took summer classes, where I took 9 credits and got all As. The classes taken this past year and over the summer were all relevant courses to my major.</p>
<p>I transferred to a university after my freshman year, where I earned a 3.0 GPA after two semesters. I messed up big time during my sophomore year, getting a 2.7 and then 1.9 GPA. I also took some summer classes just to bring my GPA up to a 2.0, but it doesn't make up for the 2 Ws and 4 Fs I have on my transcript.</p>
<p>During my second year, I had a few family issues, financial issues, and was pretty unhappy in my choice major, on top of transferring to a new school. It really was just a bad year. None of the courses I took were really that relevant to my major, and I realized I wasted a lot of time/money with that year, and have a crappy transcript now to show for it.</p>
<p>Now that I'm more certain of what I want to do and really pleased with my major choice. I have some good experience under my belt as well in terms of internships, jobs, and volunteer work. I really would like to go to graduate school for Student Affairs or Education Administration, but I'm afraid that this awful year will make that goal impossible. I have decent GRE scores but plan on retaking again this year. Anybody have any tips for what to do during my senior year to make up for a really bad sophomore year? What can I do to maximize my chances at grad school since my GPA is pretty bad?</p>