If all goes as planned, I should be graduating with an Associate's in Business Administration in June. I desperately want to transfer to Baruch for my Bachelor's degree because it's one of the top schools in the world for business majors and it also happens to be located about three blocks away from my office. I would be able to go to school after work and still get home at a decent hour. I'm heading over after work today to meet with a transfer advisor and I'm nervous! When it comes to my academics, nothing has ever worked out as planned. There has always been miscommunications, last minute issues, etc. since I was in third grade. Just a lot of trouble with them keeping my records straight between skipping grades and bumping me up to advanced classes and then bumping me back when the classes were too full. By the time I reached college, I was so sick of it that I dropped out. Well, that isn't the only reason. I also dropped out in part due to a lack of motivation and in part due to an uncertainty of who or what I wanted to be. Well, after years of working in healthcare administration, it only made sense to go back to college for a degree in healthcare administration. Although I'm proud of myself for beginning this venture at 27, when most people my age have left school in their past, I have to admit that it's hard. It's hard sitting in a classroom with people ten years your junior knowing that I should have done this already. Although I'm not the only one my age in my classes, it's still a downer sometimes. I feel less accomplished or that maybe I missed out on the true college experience when I was college-aged. Then again, I have a good career now and I have experience in the field, so when I get my diploma (finally) I will have time and experience on my side and hopefully can advance from where I am rather than having to run around brandishing my diploma begging someone to give me a chance to prove myself with just a diploma and no field experience. So, there's pros and cons to my situation, I suppose. Why am I nervous? Well, I'm nervous that they will find some big hole in my transcript that will mean I can't transfer to Baruch. I'm nervous that my GPA won't be high enough to impress. It's 3.85 right now but it SHOULD be 4.0! It was 4.0 until that horrible hurricane came to NY and wiped out my whole apartment and everything in it. So I suffered quite a bit that semester and try as I might, I couldn't get two of my professors to work with me enough to bump my B+ to an A-. For one of those classes, I knew I didn't really deserve the A- so I can't complain. For the other class, I definitely did deserve the A, but the teacher just didn't care for me too much. Must be something wrong with her because I am awesome, actually. True story. So, anyway, I guess it all boils down to me feeling inadequate to be accepted into Baruch. The acceptance rate is pathetically low, with something like only 4% of applicants granted admission. So here I am, a woman of 30 (31 at the time of graduation) headed to Baruch to ask for tips on how to increase my chances of acceptance. I know I need letters of recommendation and I'll have no issue there but I'm still. I have a lot riding on this opportunity. A degree from Baruch is highly valued and the fact that it's so close to work will greatly reduce the current strain I am under regarding time management. Now I get home twice a week around midnight and I spend all day Saturday in classes. It's exhausting. I have no energy to do anything most times. I guess I'm nervous because I really want this and all I can think of are all of the reasons why I may not get it. I guess I will have to wait and see what happens today. Maybe this transfer advisor will give me a few reasons why I may just get it ag