Can you get your academic record from a college erased?

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In 2006 I went to college for ONE semester and ended up failing all my classes except for one (which I got a C in) making my GPA a 0.3- I was going to counseling at the time and was having a rough time with depression issues which is a big reason I failed out.

Since then I have done a one year national service program, gotten the Congressional Award of Honor for service, and gone back to community college for one semester (and now have a 3.4 GPA at that college).

I have decided I want to apply to the Nursing program at my school in February, but they require that you have a 2.7 accumulative average from all the colleges you've been to in the past 5 years. Even if I took 5 classes next semester and got straight A's I would not get my accumulative GPA high enough.

I'm sick of one -three month period- of my life ruining my chances to actually make something of myself, especially when half the problem was beyond my control. I was an AP student in high school and I obviously have intelligence and motivation now.

What can I do to make my situation better? I come from a lower income family and I don't have years to spend biding my time to start training in my career. I need to be able to start making money within the next few years...(a reason why I'm choosing to get an Associates in Nursing in the first place).

aida · Accepted Answer

Some colleges have a one-semester forgiveness policy, whereby a student can have a bad semester erased.  You could contact your first college about doing so.  (However, they might agree to do it only if you come back there as a student.)  Other possibilities include finding a nursing school that doesn't ask for such records, explaining the matter to an admissions counselor at the nursing school you want to attend, waiting until 2011, and just pretending that that one semester never happened.

bethaym · Answer

Nurses are desperately needed right now. You hit a rough patch back then and this was through no fault of your own. It sounds as though you made it through. If you are as honest with the Admissions Department as you have been here, you stand a good chance. They are comprised of understanding people. Life happens and what they really want to feel sure about is the fact that you rebounded and demonstrate that your intentions are serious about a nursing education. I wish you the best of luck.

Jester of Freedonia · Answer

Check into something called "academic bankruptcy."  I am unsure of the details, but I believe that you can purge an entire semester using this method, although there are some restrictions.  

Don't quote me on this, I just heard a friend of mine considering something like this one time, I just thought I could give you that keyword up there to check into.  

Good luck.

Samantha t · Answer

This could throw you back but I know that if you retake a class the better score will replace the bad one meaning that you could just go back to that college and retake all of your courses do better the better grades will be the ones that count over the bad and it will be like the bad grades never existed.

Anonymous · Answer

its a bad situation but im sorry to say theres nothing you can do about it unless the college your applying to have excessive places available and are willing to give you a shot on compassionate grounds. would be worth your while contacting them at least.

Mark H · Answer

i would discuss this matter personally at the school registration dept where you intend to enroll. often they will make exceptions for extraordinary circumstances like yours. one of the keys to education is learning to communicate.

Anonymous · Answer

Our president got his Harvard Records Sealed.
We're all supposed to be equal.

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