Transferring to Davis with old academic suspension

goddamnimworried
Sat, 02 May 2015 11:38:59 +0000

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.