Transferring to Davis with old academic suspension

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hi, brief background and sorry in advance for this wall of text but i’ve been losing my mind over this all day.

2011~ ish - go to school in colorado, fail out. placed on academic probation/suspension, GPA is a 1/2 something, etc. i last attended this school sometime in 2011.

2014-today: have a 4.0 at a california CC. applied to and accepted by UC davis for fall 2015… i told them about the bad grades from colorado in my application and made sure to check “yes” when they asked about academic probation, said i’d been suspended (or maybe - just about probation, to be honest i didn’t think too much about it because i figured it’s obvious i did badly) from my old school.

today (of course this happens at 4:30, after the davis admissions office has closed for the weekend): i go to the UC davis website to submit a statement of intent, check the conditions for admission and see “you must be in good standing at all collegiate institutions you have attended” (not exact words - something to that effect) and shit myself. i’d seen things saying that you have to be in good standing at your current school but never that you had to be in good standing at ALL schools. i went ahead and submitted the statement regardless. (also to chico and SJSU since i’m so fucking paranoid about this shit now)

courses of action:

academic renewal at old school: difficult as their AR guidelines ask for classes taken at the school and for a face-to-face meeting with an academic advisor. as this school is in another state i can’t meet these requirements. i have considered begging for someone to over-ride these but - difficult to even get ahold of the right person over the phone, let alone convince them to do me the favor.

appeal suspension at old school: same boat as AR with the face to face meeting. however the suspension appeal process only calls for a meeting and a plan of action, not actual courses taken, so this might be easier to get done.

shit pants, pace around sweating: already done

my thoughts: aside from “why the hell did i even try to transfer the few credits i have from that CO school” - what should i do? has anyone else been in this boat? rescinding my application for the suspension even though they know about my abysmal gpa and at least the probation seems ridiculously unfair, and second would imply that i can never actually go to a UC without moving back to colorado for 6 months to take classes at my old CC.

mostly i’m just looking to know - am i screwed WRT davis? if yes, what about riverside or merced?

side note: chico asked for my transcripts before admitting me so at least i can go there if i have to.

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If you already told them about it, then I’m sure you have nothing to worry about. If they know the full story will need to meet you, then I can’t imagine they would resend you now.I think that statement is in there really just for people who are trying to hide classes are schools- and they’re giving them one last chance to come clean. That’s not your situation because you came clean from the beginning.

I would recommend, that you reach out to admissions department at your school, just to make sure that everybody is on the same page, and to put your mind at ease.

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It’s too late for AR, so that is out. Basically, the situation is you flunked some courses 4 years ago, right? They’re not repeated or erased. (Maybe they’re not transferable?) You came back to school and have a 4.0. As long as you listed those classes and grades accurately on the UC application, it would appear they are choosing to ignore the grades.

When you say probation, you just mean because of the grades, correct? No other reason? There are ppl, who through various reasons, flunk out, cannot repeat couses or get AR and get in to a UC, and logically they are still on academic probation. Sometimes it’s hard to rectify when it happened years ago in another state, unless you upturn your whole life.

Yeah, you should verify, in case SURing with them messes you up further down the line, but if they know about the grades and the probation is solely because of the grades, it sounds like they are OK with it.

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“In good standing” may refer to having closed out any financial debts (library fines, etc.) at your old institution. Just a thought, good luck.

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I can’t see why it would be too late to apply for academic renewal if you are worried about it. I did an academic renewal last year, and it only took about a week to get it approved. Do that before you send in transcripts, and your good to go. That being said, I think you are fine anyways.

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He’s starting UC this fall, unless I misread. Too late for AR at least as it applies to UCs. They base any acceptance on fall GPA, which would show the current grades.

I suppose OP could still try AR if planning to go to grad school, but most grad schools don’t accept AR, so not sure how much of an impact it would make.

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I agree with lindy. There’s really not much point to AR at this point. After your excepted for transfer it doesn’t matter, and grad schools won’t honor it. Besides that, grad schools care most about the second half of your bachelors program so academic renewal at your community college still doesn’t matter.