<p>I’m going to be completely honest and say my freshman year of college ended up bad. Most of the reason came from depression and focusing on the wrong things even though I do take blame and say I didn’t do some assignments in my classes. The only class I missed the most assignments in was public speaking also did poorly in it because I have social phobia. I changed community colleges cause my original school lacked motivation and most of the instructors there were rejects no one else would hire (pretty much they had poor teaching skills.) Besides that even though transferring to a public state uni is one of my options I look to apply as a transfer to top schools (not ivy leagues though.) How much will messing up my freshman year affect me getting into a top public uni.</p>
<p>Quite a lot I’d think. Your transfer transcript is the most important thing in your application. And sounds like you want to make a lot of excuses. Do your best to show improvement in more advanced classes and you will have some proof of competency to give a chance. Don’t make excuses in your application about bad teachers or anybody else’s motivation.</p>
<p>When Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” he forgot one more thing: college transcripts.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be hash, but from the tone of your post, I noticed that you haven’t changed one bit. I think you need to change your attitude and find out exactly what is wrong with YOU. You had problems in your previous school and now you have problems in your current school. Blaming your failures on the schools and the instructors doesn’t help.</p>
<p>IMHO, no school has any “motivation.” It has to come within you. If “most of the instructors there were rejects,” how can other students in that school learn anything? Even in the case the instructors are bad, you know the saying “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” Right?</p>
<p>Maybe I didn’t made it clear. I’ve only attended one community college so far. I had problems at that only school. I’m attending a new community college this term.</p>
<p>It’ll have an impact. You’ll need to step-up your game for the remainder of your classes. How top colleges respond is really up to how you stack up to other transfers and how bad freshman year actually was (like, was it “bad” because you got some “B’s” or is it bad because you got some “D’s.”) Instead of focusing on what colleges will take you, focus on doing your best. Get healthy. Get good grades. Go out and do something positive in the world that you can talk about in those essays.</p>
<p>There will always be difficult classes and teachers you don’t love. You need to learn to focus yourself despite what you feel are inadequacies in your environment. </p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Keep working hard. You will recover the deficit.</p>
<p>@turtletime Well since you put it that way then I should work my @#$ off enough this term and summer, transfer to a public uni do the same and apply to a top college (including ivies) for grad school maybe?</p>
<p>First, if you haven’t already, take care of your depression. Get help, otherwise your problems are going to follow you to your new school.</p>
<p>My best advice is for you to take some time off from school. Get a job, get treatment for your depression and any other issues you might have, and then, and only then, return to school so that you’ll be ready and able to do well.</p>
<p>Once you are back in school, do everything in your power to do well. Your transcript upon your return to school will either make you or break you in terms of transferring to a good school to complete your bachelor’s degree and any hope of grad school (if you plan to go.)</p>
<p>Learn from my example: I went to college and did miserably my first year. I was immature, distracted, and just didn’t care much about academics. I dropped out. Worked for several years and then returned to college when I felt ready to do the work. I then did very well and later, went to law school. When I returned to college AND when I applied to law school, I had to explain my horrible transcript from college #1. I did so honestly and explained what I had learned from the experience. I didn’t blame college #1 or anyone else for what had happened. </p>
<p>The story of people going to college, not doing well, taking time off and then returning and being successful is fairly common. But YOU need to remedy the reasons you didn’t do well at your first school before you can proceed. </p>
<p>Good luck!!!</p>
<p>so I should resume in the spring?</p>
<p>besides I’ve already applied, did my fafsa, and about to take the compass test.</p>
<p>That doesn’t require you to register for classes. The first rule when you find yourself down a hole is to stop digging. Figure out why you performed so poorly, take some time working at a full time job and when you know that you’re ready, go back to school and do your very best (no excuses).</p>
<p>Due to me applying late for the fall semester I still can register for fall minimester 2, but I took minimesters before at my old school and there too fast paced for me especially when comes to math. I decided to wait til January in the spring.</p>