<p>Some schools offer something akin to “academic forgiveness”, but they typically require you to go back to the same school. Something like:</p>
<p><a href=“Academic Forgiveness Policy”>A to Z List;
<p>I honestly wouldnt worry about it. I had the exact same situation as you. A semester or two of “F” or “WF” grades just out of HS, Several year break, then all A’s for my engineering prereq’s at a different school. When I applied to a 4 year I sent the old failing transcript and explained it in one of my essay’s. I was accepted into the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Colleges like to see “upward trends” and other edvidence of your having grown as a person. Just think of it as an opportunity to show them how much you have in the last 5 years.</p>