My wife dropped out of High School in 10th grade. After finding out she didn’t like low level employment, she went back to school and got her GED. She then went to a career college and got a diploma in Hotel/Rest. Mngt. (not a degree).

Then she applied to a state university and was accepted where she spent 5 years getting her BA in communication (with departmental honors) and then got a BSc in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Literature in English.

She’s now working on her Master of Arts in Media Communication at a USNWR ranked program and concurrently working on the MA in Human Resources Development so that she can get into a top PhD program.

I’m thinking, yes, you can achieve even if you dropped out of HS.

PS: she sucks at math and had to take liberal arts general math 3 times (1 F, 1 drop, 1 A) to get her BA. I suspect she wanted to quit more than a few times. I also suspect that had she quit, she’d not be where she is now.

Here’s the deal, as soon as you are over 30 semester hours at that community college, transfer out of there to your nearby state university. Then, never look back and never use your past as an excuse for the present.

Talk to your college about retaking that accounting course. Most schools will accept an extenuating circumstances, and if you can show that you can go from an F to a B for example, they will only count the B. When you are retaking the course, find a tutor who can help simplify accouting so that debits and credits are like second nature to you.

If you are a bit older, and have some life experience behind you, alot of universities will allow students to apply as MATURE students, where the academic requirements are not as ridgidly enforced, and real life experience has a strong weighting as well.

There are people who work at colleges and universities

who can give you sound advice, rather than you just panicking

and thinking all is lost. Start asking questions!! All schools have a student support center.

Although a GED is technically all you need to get into a college, the chances of getting into Yale or Harvard are INCREDIBLY slim. Just check out the US World and New Report admission rates for these schools. For example, Brown only accepts 26% of valedictorians! However, please do not get your hopes up. There are PLENTY of even better suited oppurtunities, really! An Ivey League will probably put anyone in debt for 10 years if they don’t have substantial need-based issues. I would highly recommend a junior college. In California, if you graduate from the junior college, you can get into ANY UC you want…even Berkeley (in most cases, if you keep good grades)! And Berkeley and UCLA are considered some of the best schools. Berkeley is the number one public school in AMERICA! Good luck, Best wishes!

Just put your mind to it. Often if you retake the course and pass it the second time, the F is stricken from your record. You may also want to look into non-traditional universities such as Kaplan University and the University of Pheonix for online schools, most four year universities have classes that are for working professionals, regardless of their past.

I graduated high school in 2000 and went right into the Army, now I have a family and cannot go to a traditional college because I have to support them, and chose Kaplan University because of their pro military status, their programs, and their online university setting.

That’s ridiculous! Don’t listen to the nay-sayers. Stay in your community school and get your two year degree. Most community colleges work closely with state universities and transfering shouldn’t be a problem. Just try to keep your grades up and talk to your advisor. If they don’t know (some of them don’t) talk to admissions at the university you’d like to attend.

You need a GED and to be out of full-time education for about 2 years. Then you can apply as a “mature status”. This many vary from school to school. So I would ask the admissions office of the schools I was looking into about their mature student requirements.

take one class ….and make an A in it …to make up for that F. The F must have pulled your gpa down…so that A will mod Def make up for it….and boost the gpa up again.

hey… dont worry.. when my brother was alive…he did the same exact thing you did… he dropped out…. got a GED…. made good grades and transferred to a university… he became a pharmacist…. but past away afew ago. So YES…. you can overcome your past. Just believe in yourself..and you can do anything!!! 🙂 good luck!! 🙂

Pharmacy school does not ask you about your high school experience. They don’t care. They do care about your community college experience though. Getting an F in accounting is not the worst thing. It is not a required pharmacy course. Get As and Bs in your prereqs, and maybe, you’ll get in.

Don’t quit, you are doing great… I would recommend retaking that accounting class so when you apply again it shows you mastered it

Get a tutor for it

Also call the schools where you have been rejected and ask to speak to a counselor who can advise you on what more they wuld like to see on your application so you can be accepted int he future

It’s pronbably pretty competitive to get into Pharmacy school, so that’s why. Maybe you can retake the math class.