<p>My son is 20 years old, he now going on 3 years out of school. He graduated from high school with a gpa of 3.2 and was accepted to a university but when there he failed all of his classes, we went through 2 semesters of failed grades and he left the university to find himself and started community college where the same thing happened, he ended up working for a year and now we fast forward to today. He wants to go back to school and is at the community college about to start a winter class and he is serious about getting back into school. But with faild out of the university and already having failing grades in cc under his belt what are his chances of making it back to a university</p>
<p>Let him acclimate back to college by doing well in cc.
He needs to test his readiness to do schoolwork by succeeding in classes, probably the ones he made Fs in.
One step at a time, don’t look too far down the road.
The guidance center can then help get his transcripts together and look towards transferring back to a 4 year.</p>
<p>The chances are very, very good. The age of the average first-year college student in the U.S. is 24.5 years old.</p>
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I would say that it is possible, but would not jump to “very, very good”. I flunked out of college the first time around, did very well the second time around… because I figured out what my problems had been the first time and worked to correct them. Your son needs to identify those behaviors that were principally responsible for his earlier failure and then find a way to make sure that they are no longer a deciding factor. If he doesn’t, then he will just fail again.</p>
<p>There is a college for everyone - even someone who has failed at previous attempts. </p>
<p>Ditto what cosmicfish said.</p>
<p>It’s all about his own motivation. If he wants to do it, he should be able to handle it. Local community college is the place to start. My son had a bad first start at college, and when he came home he got back into school very slowly, I think taking 1 community college class his first semester back, then 2. He eventually became a very good student, doing all of his own studying, research, paper writing, scheduling and has had semesters where he carried much more than a full load. He got his 2 year cc degree, transferred to a 4 yr university and will graduate soon… very soon… 
Hang in there. Lots of kids take a while to mature. (he is 27)</p>
<p>One of our bright kids had a long and winding road through college (complicated, many reason). A few extra years of maturity helps a lot. Just take things day by day.</p>
<p>IMO, you son has not been out of school that long at all. It’s been like a yo-yo for him. Why not let him take a real breather and re evaluate. He can lose a lot of his options by doing poorly and dropping out when he starts back before he is ready. He should be hungry and really want to do this. Don’t make this a chronic back and forth using up loan/ and aid eligibility and creating bad transcripts at a number of the area schools. I know a number of kids who did this and when they finally grew up enought to truly go back and give it their all, their options were limited.</p>
<p>My son came home after 1 year away. Was on academic probation at his cc because of a failed class (because once it became difficult he stopped attending.) He took a couple of classes per semester at cc and worked. In short order he found a subject that he really liked (very hands on) and is almost finished with his associates degree (HS class of '09, so he’s quite behind.) The “test” this semester is his taking classes that he doesn’t love - e.g. the second semester of biology. If he does decently at that, I think I’ll believe he is ready to go away again.</p>
<p>So my advice is, let him take a class or to that he is highly likely to enjoy and in which he is highly likely to succeed. If that goes well, add a fuller load of classes like that. If that goes well, add a class or two that are required gen ed but not up his alley. If that goes well, think about letting him go away.</p>