r/ewu • • 14h ago

Can I Still Get Into Eastern as a Transfer Student?

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I am a Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) student, and I earned my associate's degree last summer at Spokane Community College (SCC). I am in a competitive "Hearing Instrument Specialist" program at SFCC. I usually take 10 quarter credits (2 classes per quarter); however, in this program, I couldn't take 2 classes. I had to take 3 (12 credits), and because of that, I really struggled. The program advisor told me these 12 credits wouldn't be difficult at all; boy, was that a lie. I didn't struggle to understand the material; I struggled to actually do the work because it's all online, at least in quarter 1, and I'm also not used to having 6-8 assignments that take me 6-12 hours each and are due every week. I have bad adhd and as of recently I have been extremely anxious/on edge, depressed, and suicidal for whatever reason; idk if it's the ADHD meds or maybe it was from me trying to work on coursework for 3 days straight, no sleep, a few weeks ago.

Anyways, I am thinking of dropping from the program, or at least dropping 2/3 of the classes I'm in, and hopefully finishing at least one course. After that, I'm thinking of finishing a class or two at my current community college, SFCC, and then transferring to my local 4-year, Eastern Washington University. What worries me is that I now have 7 or 8 Ws on my transcripts across 2 schools, SCC and now SFCC, within a 3-4 period for various reasons. Most of the time, I had suddenly thought of a potential career idea to try out, tried a class, did everything I could to do well, and then dropped it because I didn't want to deal with a really bad grade and felt that I wasn't going to pass the course; a couple of classes I dropped because I was dumb, and I'm sure I could've passed if I actually tried and one or two classes I was advised to take by an academic advisor only for me to see a different advisor and that advisor would tell me to drop the course because the course I was told to take actually wouldnt count towards my AA degree. I raised my GPA from 2.0 in 2021-2022, when I was a first-year SCC community college student and high school graduate, to ~3.5 when I reattended Spokane Community College and was somehow able to earn my Associate of Arts degree after dropping out, coming back to school, dealing with a hearing disability, working 20-25 hours a week and dealing with constant family emergenices after summer quarter 2026 so it took me a total of 5 years to do this (fall 2021-winter 2022) (fall 2023-summer 2026).

Am I in trouble? Did I just bar myself from transferring to Eastern Washington University, a 4-year university? Or at the very least, make it really difficult for me to get accepted?