So I ended the second semester senior year with 3 C’s on my transcript. This was not because of seniorities but because of personal reasons and the passing of a friend. One of my teachers gave me a 0 on a test that I kept emailing to try to make up and another gave me a bunch of 0’s on homework that I turned in late even though her policy says I should get 50% credit. Anyways I am attending NYU this fall but I am not in love with the school and if I could transfer to a college that is equal in prestige and is in a warm sunny campus I would love to go there. My plan is to work my ass off at NYU and then transfer to somewhere like USC or Vanderbilt but I am afraid that my high school transcript will hold me back because I would be transferring my freshman year.
Just read your other thread- is it too late to get your place back at UMd? I don’t know where you found the money to borrow to pay for NYU, but going in to debt for a school that you now don’t like (though you loved it in May- is there buyer’s remorse going on here?) and planning to transfer out of asap is simply not a good plan,.
Yes, if you apply to transfer to Vandy or USC next March with 1 semester of college marks, those 3 C’s will jump off the page. I am sorry that you had personal issues, and very sorry that a friend died. But most of your ‘explanation’ (‘unfair teachers’) sounds worse than excuses: it suggests that as a HS senior you still hadn’t learned how to navigate the school system or do the kind of problem solving that is required when life gets messy.
The main issue was due to the corona virus I was not able to talk to any of my teachers in person. I emailed both my teachers several times before transcripts were due and neither of them responded. At that point there is not much more I can do.
No, the main issue is that you didn’t hand in a lot of homework on time & missed a test. Every.single.school has policies on how to handle absence/lateness and make-up work. Every.single.school has hierarchies and some form of student advisor/dean/GC etc. that students can approach when things get complicated.
I get that when life is being messy, balls get dropped and the emotional bandwidth to take on officialdom can be hard to find. But the first step is to own your part of it: your teacher could not have given you 0s if you had turned in the “bunch” of homework assignments when they were due. And the next step is to call in reinforcements- in this case, asking either your parents or the GC-equivalent at your school for help. You didn’t do either.
My guess is that you figured nbd- you were already into college and the Cs didn’t change your world. Now that you think you want to transfer for some place that you see as better (and perhaps were turned down by in this admissions round?), you are realizing that it wasn’t a great call. The good news is that transferring after 2 years makes your HS record less of an issue- it will be your college record that counts.
Take a gap year. What are your in-state school options? If your parents will only pay 1/2 for NYU that will probably carry over to USC and Vandy. Starting $160K in debt after college is not the right way to go.