Community College Success Stories

JC2017
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:40:24 +0000

Long time lurker here. My first post was deleted due to some… colorful language, I’ll make this one much shorter. Home life sucked I dropped out of HS got my GED at 21 when my friends were getting their bachelors (really depressing). Went to CC basically flunked out 1.20 GPA. After a couple of years of doing crappy odd jobs working with people whose only motivation in life is to get to the weekend so they could get drunk. I wanted something more, I decided to seriously think about school again. Through the magic of google I ended up here and I tell you this thread gave me life. I went back to school lacking scared but full of determination and got straight As. This gave me the confidence boost I needed so I retook whatever classes I could turned Fs and Ds into As. I’ve managed to pull my gpa from a 1.20 to a 3.44 overall with a 3.67 UC transferable and a 3.90 major GPA. One thing I had going for me was those Cs were in non transferable courses.

Today I was accepted to UCI as an electrical engineer major I applied through tag and got into UCD as well. I’m currently waiting on UCSD, UCLA and UCD. I’m posting this because this thread, and the stories I read here really gave me hope and inspired me to give it my all. I hope my story is useful to anyone reading this it is never too late!

Goodbye CC hellooooo UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA!