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Jimbone
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I realize that this may be far fetched, but I was wondering if anyone knew if this may be a possibility. Consider my situation. I attended Ohio University out of high school for four quarters from fall of 2003 to fall of 2004 when I was dismissed for academic reasons. I rarely went to class and had little or no motivation. I had no clue how my actions would effect my future unknown goals. I had something like a 1.7 GPA. Today (7 years later) I'm 4 credit hours away from a B.S. in physics with an 3.9 GPA (at a different institution) and have been accepted to my current universities M.S. of Physics program. Sometime in the next year or so I will be applying to Physics Phd programs and realize that my poor performance in 03/04 will be very detrimental to that cause. Since I'm only using maybe 12 credit hours from Ohio University towards my degree and it was so long ago (I was much different student, obviously) I feel that this transcript has no place in my academic life. Would it be possible to appeal to Ohio University and ask to have my academic records expunged so that I would not have to include the transcript in future applications? I could easily, in a summer, retake those courses which I am using from Ohio University. If not is there any positive action otherwise I could take to alleviate the effects of my ignorant past self(aside from including explanations for my past actions and how I've changed since in applications)?
Any thoughts are appreciated, I'm just trying to do anything and everything in my power to increase my chances of furthering my Physics education and I feel that certain parts of my past academic performance have little or no bearing on my abilities or weaknesses as a student.
Any thoughts are appreciated, I'm just trying to do anything and everything in my power to increase my chances of furthering my Physics education and I feel that certain parts of my past academic performance have little or no bearing on my abilities or weaknesses as a student.