I started out as a pre-med student at a small university right out of high school. About halfway through my first semester I realized I wanted to pursue nursing at my local community college instead. I stopped going to classes then since my ignorant self thought that those grades wouldn’t matter. I didn’t realize I had to send in all my transcripts if I ever wanted to go to another university. I didn’t want anyone to know of my grades either. It was extremely stupid and I’m not here looking for criticism on that. I know I messed up big time. Now I am still at community college pursuing computer science, which I’m absolutely passionate about. My GPA is around 3.5 but I expect this to be even higher when I graduate. I live in Illinois and the only schools I would bother going to would be U of I or IIT and I don’t think they would overlook the awful transcript at my first school. I think I failed three out of four classes. I am a good student and I know I can succeed. Do I have a chance of getting into any decent schools around the midwest? Distance isn’t really a factor as I am sort of wanting to move away.
Nebraska, Oklahoma state, Nebraska-Omaha, Kansas, Kansas State. South Dakota and.South Dakota state are amazingly affordable for out of staters.
Do you think they would overlook my one bad semester though?
Yes. Also, check out the Midwest Student Exchange Program
Ok, thanks a bunch!
I think IIT would take the circumstances into consideration. We just had a physics major graduate who had a similar situation at more than one university before going to CC. He is in the Ph.D. program at University of Wisconsin, Madison. My guess is that other schools will do the same.
That is really good to hear. I was beginning to feel discouraged but this helped a lot. Thank you.