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Originally Posted by kddani

To sidetrack for a second- there is a wealth of information out there about financial aid. It is up to everyone to educate themselves. Hell, most people do it themselves without any help from any sort of adviser. It just really came across (and still comes across) as shifting of blame. It would be easier to be understanding towards your situation if you just said "yeah, I screwed up" rather than blaming everything on the evil school and advisers.

I agree. This goes also with dropping classes and stuff. My first school (I transfered as well) gave no help whatsoever with finical aid (or really crappy help) and no help at all when dropping classes. You need to take the responsibility for you screwing up and stop blaming it on other people.

Originally Posted by alum

Just as a sidenote:

I work at a university as an graduate-level academic advisor and see the undergraduate transcipts on a daily basis. Although you are correct that D's and F's do not transfer, many schools still put all the grades on the transcripts from previous schools. So if you do have D's and F's from the University of East Cupcake, got straight A's from Local Community College and now are transferring to State University, it is very likely that a State University transcript will show all classes and grades ever taken anywhere including the non-transferrable ones.

Off topic but...so happy that my new school just lists it was T for transfer and not the grade that we got!