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Originally Posted by navane
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.
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Good call. I did this with a semester over 2 years after I left school. I wrote a personal statement about what happened and my Dr. also wrote a letter. A few weeks later I got an approval. It's really worth looking into.