I have been thinking about my future of as lately. I am 24 years old. When I graduated from high school, I went directly to a community college with no clear vision about my goals. I did not have an idea of what I wanted to major in. For my first semester, I registered for four history classes. I was not a history major and I failed all of them. I kept attending, but kept failing. Through out this time, I still did not have any idea of what I wanted to major in or what my purpose was at the college. So after failing a few semesters, I finally decided to take a two year break from school. Fast forward to last year, I enrolled at another college. I needed a clean start. Now that I am more mature and wiser, I know my major, which is communication, and what my career goals are. I have a 4.0 at my current college and I am apart of two honor societies. I have also been diagnosed with a learning disability, which explains why I kept failing. I am using resources and accommodations to help me thrive in college. Nonetheless, I am very certain that will not be enough to get accepted to a CSU. At the previous college, I have 2.0 and took about 60 units. I know that my failures will haunt me for the rest of my life. I am probably going to get denied. I’d just wished colleges did not see failure as failure. I have used failure to propel me to success. I am more determined, but I fear the setbacks that will come as a result of my mistakes. I want to thrive in this society. I want to achieve my goals and be a successful person. I do not want my failures to define my entire life. I want to be known as a person who persevered through life’s obstacles and challenges. But then again, I keep thinking if it is even possible to have a successful life and career. At times, metaphorically, I feel like I am a convicted felon, who has no chance at life. I am just a person who has failed, but I am using that to fuel my fire. I am trying to stay positive and continue fighting. However, I am fearful of the future, and thus, I am writing this post. I’d love hear feedback or stories from other college students. Thank you for reading my post, and l’d look for forward to reading the responses.
60 of the correct units with a 2.0 will get you into non-impacted campuses like San Bernardino and Bakersfield and in many cases your local’ CSU. You may be able to re-take a couple of courses where you earned a D or F and replace the grade.
Talk to an advisor at your CC about academic renewal.
If you keep up your trend, you should have plenty of CSU options available.
Good luck.
I had a similar situation. I graduated High school in 2011 and enrolled immediately in CC after being rescinded by SFSU (which made me pretty depressed). I dropped or failed all the courses I took for a couple years until giving up and heading into the workforce. It wasn’t until 2015 that I got back to school, and eventually I did academic renewals for all of my failed courses and got much better grades (my gpa went from a 1.XX up to a 3.7 right now). If you can re-take those courses and get better grades you can petition to have the old grades removed from influencing your GPA. They will be there on your record, but you will show tremendous improvement if you’re doing well.
Head straight to the transfer counselor at your community college. You will definitely have options.
The community college system is meant to give people chances at different points in their lives. You can retake courses that you failed, and you can build a record with new grades. New educational experiences can override earlier grades, etc. For example, if you do well in the next year or two, that will be more significant than what you did years ago.