Why does the liberal northeast suck at college football? Yet the supposedly racist south dominates...?

I've already picked up the pom poms for you and cheered alongside Obviousman trying to encourage you to persevere at Boston College, but that tactic obviously hasn't worked. It seems like you are determined to be unhappy and unfulfilled at BC and to refuse to have gratitude for the magnificent opportunity to attend a world-class institution that you are fortunate to have. Our words haven't had much influence on your mind.

If you're genuinely that miserable and are unable to pull yourself up and start working towards improving your attitude and grades, then perhaps a break would be beneficial. It wouldn't be ideal, but neither would wasting your parents' money and your time at a college where you're not willing to put in the work to make it worthwhile. Most colleges permit students to take leaves for personal or medical reasons.

I just checked and BC does allow students to petition for a leave for up to one year. I've had to take several terms off from college (not by choice; I have Hodgkin's Lymphoma 3B) and have been able to return and pick up my studies again quickly. On my transcript it simply states that I've been on university approved leaves.

For some students a leave is a waste of a time that slow downs their momentum, and for others it recharges their batteries and helps them to gain perspective, applied work experience, and maturity before resuming their studies. If you do take a leave, make it worthwhile. I'm assuming you don't have the ability to pay for your living expenses on your own, so you'd probably need to return home.

Usually you cannot take classes at another college while you're on a leave of absence, so you'd need to do something else with the time. You could get a job or internship. Did you ever look into the Washington semester (AU) or study abroad I suggested before?

As I wrote in my last answer, now that you're 18 you have the freedom to make your own decisions even if they are against your parents' wishes, but they are no longer required to financially support you. If you really want to go to SBCC and your parents (for reasons built upon solid logic) are unwilling to pay for your tuition and living expenses there, your only option is to self-fund. No one can stop you from going there, but no one else has to pay your way.

When you're under 24 it's hard to meet the criteria to be considered financially independent and to have your financial aid determined by your income rather than your parents' so you will face some challenges. None of us here have the ability or the authority to try to convince your parents to change their minds. No matter how many times you ask the question that basic fact will remain unchanged.

You are only given the right to pursue happiness; you're not entitled to have it handed to you according to your specifications. Yes, you only live once and most people only get the chance to go to college once (if at all), but you already are at college. Millions of other young adults have to self-fund their education and could never be at BC.

You are putting too much emphasis on the movie version of college life instead of dealing with the reality of how it really is. Your college experience is what you make of it. Many of us have to adjust our expectations and adapt to the circumstances.

You don't like BC, I didn't like getting cancer in my teens. We're both grown ups who have to just deal. Skylark : ) Edit - Ha, I've read Obviousman's story about Barry Obama a couple of times but it still makes me smile.

My original answer here was too long, so I moved part of it over to the answer I gave when you asked this question in the Higher Education section. Like people have explained here and I explained there, you have to submit your BC transcript. People can recover from low grades their freshman year.

If you did decide to stay at BC and work at your full potential you might have a shot at getting into a good CA university for grad school.

Your numbers are off. The cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room & board, books, personal expenses, etc) for SBCC is about $20,000 a school year on a starving student budget almost impossible to stick to, and that is not living in one of the private dorms that include everything, the cost for that is higher to much higher. The cost (rental and fees) of the private dorms generally range from $14,000 to $22,000+ a school year, with parking an additional $800 to $2500, and there are not many spaces on the low end cost.

SBCC cost of attendance http://www.sbcc.edu/financialaid/cost_of... Read the blurb about not actual costs, cost of attendance numbers are notoriously low, typically $2000+ is needed on a starving student budget. The cost of attendance of a private college, including BC, is about $60,000 a year, minus your financial aid. If you are going to try to persuade your parent, you need to do so in an honest manner, with real figures.

They can figure out how to find the cost of attendance numbers and won't appreciate you not being forthcoming. Might it be easier to convince your parent that you should attend a local community college and live at home, if you're really that unhappy at BC? Your chance of transferring to UCLA (from a CA CC) or USC is low, the transfer rate to both is about 30%.

Your BC grades will most likely count at most colleges as most do not do ignore any college grades and give "GPA restarts". (You typically find "GPA restarts" at lower level colleges, not colleges like UCLA and USC.) UCLA and USC require all college transcripts and their average transfer GPA is around 3.7 for both colleges. You can get guaranteed transfer to most of the UC's if you successfully participate in a CA community college's TAG program.

(UCLA, UCB, and recently UCSD are not included.) Typically you cannot take a Gap year and attend another college. The exception is usually summer school at a community college for no credit only before your first year at a college. You may be able to take a Gap year and not attend any college, but you may have to apply with specific plans for your Gap year, so look into it quickly.

Some colleges only allow certain years to be taken as Gap years. Good luck!

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