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Originally Posted by bummedout93
Thanks for the advice guys! It's just a really shitty situation bc my gpa is so low, bc 2 months into my freshmen year my little sister who I was really close to passed away from leukemia. I had an extremely hard time coping, couldn't make it throughout a class without having to leave bc I would start bawling. Ended up failed every class and then got D's and C's the next semester....but the last 2 semesters and over the summer I've had B's and A's. I didn't want to bring any of that up bc I didn't want the girls to think that I was trying to make them feel sorry for me to get a bid.....it just sucks because I feel like that period in my life keeps coming back to get me even when I've made so much progress. A 2.5 def doesn't reflect me...I was an A/B student in highschool but since I was transfer they only looked at my transcript from my previous college  |
Having worked as an Academic Adviser, I highly recommend that you contact your previous college's Registrar's Office to inquire about a process called "academic renewal" or "late withdrawal". In my opinion, your situation freshman year was completely understandable and you may qualify to have that entire semester removed from your record (or the grades changed to "W"). That should help improve your GPA and might help alleviate any burden you feel about your academic record.