u/No_Duty2982

I attended Montclair State University in Fall 2025, but I was going through a lot personally at the time. I was also majoring in something completely different from what I’m pursuing now, and I had a really difficult time keeping up with my schoolwork. Unfortunately, I ended up failing all my classes and withdrawing from the university entirely

After leaving Montclair, I decided to attend community college and pursued music production, where I’ve spent the past two semesters studying music production and other music-related subjects and gen Ed’s , and my academic performance has improved significantly. I earned a 3.7 GPA during my first semester, and I’m currently completing my second semester.
Now I’m considering applying for readmission to Montclair, in Recording Arts and Production.
However, when I originally attended Montclair, I received a merit scholarship worth around $3,000 per semester. I’m concerned that because of my first semester’s grades, I may have permanently lost that scholarship.

Has anyone been in a similar situation where they left Montclair after a bad semester, improved academically somewhere else, and then returned?

Would it still be worth applying for readmission?

First, I went to this one community college that was 30 minutes away from me because its programs were really good. I’m doing a music major, and I really wanted to pursue music in a way where I was doing music production, music notation, performance , and business while also doing gen ed courses.
Recently, I found out that because I was going to an out-of-county college, I was paying twice as much as I would have if I had just gone to my original county’s college. My original county’s college does have a music program that has the basics of music in a traditional way, with classes in voice, ensembles, and overall regular music classes. However, it does not have some of the classes that the out-of-county college has in terms of music business classes, Music in the Marketplace, advanced production classes, and other music production courses. The out-of-county school also has much better music facilities.
I don’t know. I just found this out, and it wasn’t really shown on my bill that I was paying twice as much because I was an out-of-county student. Do you think I made a huge mistake? The classes were really good, and I learned a lot, but at the same time, I could’ve gotten a music education for about half the price at my county’s college, just with different classes.