Is it hopeless?

Wildlife32
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:46:04 +0000

@ Erin’s Dad: Of course that’s the first step I took, and I received no answer from the university. That’s why I’m on here, asking for advice.

@ highland_poppy: Yes, I’ve heard that things in Europe are somewhat different, but unfortunately here in the USA, universities take things like GPA very seriously, regardless of personal situation or student maturity. If you don’t meet the GPA requirements, they usually will not even bother to speak to you. Also, there generally are no admissions interviews for undergraduate students. Admission is a very impersonal process, and usually is done entirely online. I’ve known of several schools that use computer programs to assess a potential student’s numbers, and if you don’t meet the GPA and/or SAT requirements, the computer purges you from the system, and your records are never even seen by human eyes. If you are rejected, you can appeal, but again this is typically done on the internet. The other roadblock for me is that I can’t just go to a university and take several classes to increase my GPA. Most universities limit the number of credit hours you can take as a non-degree seeking student, usually somewhere around 14 - 20 credit hours, which is 5 or 6 courses only. What I’m probably going to have to do is return to my old university and retake the classes I performed poorly in, but again, I’m limited to the number of classes I can take. The new grades will replace the old grades in the GPA calculation, but the old grades remain on my transcripts, which is rather ridiculous in my opinion.

Since the US government stepped in and started regulating school loans, colleges and universities have become much less about helping people reach their educational goals, and are now mostly concerned with processing as many students as possible to make as much profit as possible, both for the schools as well as the banks providing the loans through the government.