Guidance for a continuing student

[dfrecore]

Are any of the low graded courses available at your community college? I realize that the fact you got a low grade is probably tied to hating the course, but retaking a course is the fastest way to improve your GPA since it replaces the low grade.

Retaking a course at a CC will not replace the grade you received at the original school. Normally, a college will only let you repeat courses at their own school to replace bad grades you received there. Also, taking courses at a CC MAY help your GPA somewhat, but not with a course you are repeating, because the school will probably not count the new grade at all in your GPA. For instance, if you got a D in Sociology at UCD, then went and took it at CC and got an A, UCD would probably not bring it in as a transfer, since you already have it on your transcript there. So that will all be for naught.

I'm not sure there's a lot you can do to redeem yourself at UCD since they've already seen your work there...except ask for mercy. You won't be able to game the system with better grades at other colleges, since they have something right in front of their very eyes of your grades at their own school. The only thing you can do is try to see what you can do to get back in from within their system.

If you ultimately don't want to go there, and decide on another school, then figuring out which school that is, and seeing what you need to do to get into that school is the best place to start. It's hard for any of us here to give advice when we don't know what you're up against. Until we know the rules of the game, we can't tell you how to play the game in the best way to get the best outcome.