u/BrieSting

I'm currently a PCC student finishing up my summer term and was recently accepted to PSU. I've been poking around myPSU and saw that my cumulative GPA is only 2.55, when I'm at a solid 3.95 currently at PCC. Then I remembered that my first round of college almost 15 years ago (my last semester at the old school was in 2012) I ended with a low GPA, I think around 1.85. I was dealing with a lot emotionally, didn't know how to handle slipping grades, and just tanked myself in a really bad (undiagnosed) depression.

Now I'm freaking out slightly, thinking that even if I get straight A's throughout my last two years at PSU (I'll be coming in with 92 credits), I could still be blocked from grad schools or my really coveted doctorate program. As an older student, I'm not looking to feel like I'm wasting a lot of time and (more importantly, money) finally shooting for my dreams on better terms.

Of course I googled what could be done and it looks like some schools offer a type of forgiveness for old failed classes. Does anyone know anything about this at PSU, or have experience with this? Or any general advice on my situation?

*EDIT: thanks so much for your replies! Just a couple of notes:

- I am entering in to PSU in Junior standing (although it says Senior, so idk) this fall, so I have not taken any courses at PSU at all yet. As such, I also don't have a listed advisor quite yet (I just got my acceptance decision yesterday afternoon).

- The first university (between 2008-2012) was not PSU, so that probably affects what they can and can't disregard or withdraw from the records.

- Yes, I had to provide all transcripts no matter how old they were. I didn't expect literally any of those credits to account for anything at PSU since they didn't do jack squat for PCC, lol, but idk if that older transcript is throwing things off.

- I will definitely talk to an advisor once I get my ducks in a row and get all the orientation and acceptance fee paid, I just got immediately worried about what I was seeing so far in the PSU system.

I maintain that my earliest memory was seeing a huge, suspended (?) metal or some sort of statue of a cow at the Tillamook Cheese Factory on a tour. I was little enough that I remember being on my dad's shoulders and having to look up high (while also being at a higher perspective than normal). This would have been some time between 1990-1991, maybe 1992 at the latest?? I would have been about 2-3 years old, so I have only the most vague image in my head of this.

The issue is, I have yet to find any photos of this at all. Like, I can't find anything that supports this was ever a real thing. And I have no idea if this was a limited thing, like if this cow was taken down shortly thereafter or if I'm mixing something else I may have seen during that tour or around that time into one memory.

If anyone can confirm this, especially with a photo, I would be so grateful! It's fun to have such an Oregonian earliest memory, but I'm also scared that I'm making it up by accident lol. What's your earliest Oregon memory?

It looks like someone accidentally grouped in all students or a big swath of PCC emails on accident. We know this is an error, you don’t have to request to be removed from the email. Do not reply all (don’t actually reply, in fact), otherwise it will just keep going in perpetuity. Idk if IT has the power to delete this email altogether from our boxes, but I really hope they do and get on it quick