Going back to college...

[TechHead87]

Is this legal? I only have about 10 credit hours from my previous college "experience", and a few of those may not even transfer to the college I'm wanting to apply to.

Is starting all over an option, or am I forever tied to my past mistake?

 

[Farang]

You are forever tied to your past mistake, but if you only have 10 credit hours that mistake isn't going to do anything to you.

edit: retaking and replacing grades is also an option at many colleges, so I suppose your mistake isn't helplessly permanent.

 

[ric1287]

don't transfer the credits over

 

[Whisper]

There's usually a "statute of limitations" of sorts when it comes to transfer credits, i.e., after a certain amount of time, previous credits won't count towards your current degree/you don't have to claim them anymore. The amount of time usually differs from university to university, though.

 

[bleeb]

Don't listen to people telling you to not transfer things over....

Not listing previous colleges on current college applications constitutes fraud and can lead to you losing your degree and making it harder to progress to high degrees later.

There are stories of people who got their professional degrees withdrawn because they omitted a college they went to on their application and were found out.

 

[BoomerD]

I attempted to go to college about 10 years ago, (night classes) but about half-way through the semester, I started working a shutdown at the Chevron refinery which was just over 100 miles from my house. I worked 12 hours/day and commuted between 4 and 5 hours/day--7 days per week. Needless to say, school went by the wayside. I didn't even have time to drop my classes, but did call and speak to a couple of my professors and had them drop me. I now have two "W"s on my transcripts that I can only make go away if I retake the classes...neither of which in in line with my current major goals, so I'll just leave them there. They really don't hurt my GPA, nor will they affect me after graduation.

OP, either don't transfer the credits, or do so, but still start at the beginning if they're bad grades that you'd like to replace with better ones.