<prompt> Human: I am posting in this sub to get a perspective on the financing part of my situation. Sorry in advance for the wall of text.Also, not sure if all of this is relevant but here we go:I graduated high school in the top 20 of my class in 2010. I was accepted to my dream school out of state and parents told me theyd pay for it. College started well, I began in a STEM major, 3.3 GPA for my first year. A week after getting home for summer break, my parents told me they were getting divorced.Next year, I went back to original school, was having slight difficulty focusing and doing well in advanced level math courses. I thought it was stress. Finished the semester with a 2.8. Spring semester sophomore year I started falling off the wagon. In hindsight, I likely had high functioning depression. Parents started putting me in the middle of fights Im the oldest. Stopped going to class because of stress and lack of doing excellent in subjects I used to breeze through. I wasnt able to work through it. I sought help from the school and got paranoid when I thought I overheard a counselor talking about me in the hallway before our meeting that I was running late for. I dropped all my courses for the semester and went home without any bad grades.Junior year, everything collapsed. I completely stopped doing anything other than trying to cheer myself up. Things I continued doing: partying, social events. I tried getting a puppy to work on my depression maybe not the best choice at the time but 4 years later, hes my entire life. A month later, a major storm decimated my hometown and I spent a lot of time worrying about how my family was doing instead of working on class work. I was almost kicked out of my sorority, and I decided halfway through finals week to drop out completely. I was heart broken.I decided to transfer to a college in my home state and moved in with my grandmother. Things were going exceedingly well. I was working part time, I loved my classes and I was making friends at the school. I finished this semester with a 3.4.This school had another flagship college whose program was much better than that other one. I decided to transfer there in order to put myself closer to my goals of getting the best degree I could. I got in to transfer but not for my ideal program. I had balanced working full time with school full time and finished this semester with a 3.2. I figured I was in.Unfortunately, I was not accepted to the program I wanted. I had needed a 3.5 because I was a transfer student. I was devastated. A couple weeks later, I was suspended from work due to not getting the required license needed within the allotted time. I was out of work for 6 weeks. During that time, I was too depressed to get out of bed, I felt defeated and stupid.I asked my family if they would support me taking a year off of school to treat my depression and go back to school having worked on a recovery plan. They all encouraged me to just keep going, youre almost done because I had been in school for 4 years. I needed about 40 more credits for my major, if I ever got into it.I tried beating the system by taking summer courses while I waited to apply again to the major I wanted. This backfired. I could not shake this failure looming over me. I couldnt focus on any work, and when I did, I was so self conscious about it. I thought people would think I was stupid, Id never graduate and everyone would laugh at me wondering where I went wrong.I was let go from my job in September right before the semester began. I continued academic year 2014-2015 with the same results. Failure. Depression. Unable to even get out of bed. My GPA dropped down to a 1.5. The grades were either B or higher or Fs. I was put on academic suspension.I had to wait a year before I went back and took courses on a probationary status over the summer of 2016. In the meantime, I worked my butt off at 2 jobs, knowing Id need to save up money to go back. I applied to every job I could to get closer to an office job in my industry.I went back super excited. I loved the course I signed up for, I had gotten an entry level position although temporary in an office and was applying daily to permanent positions in my industry. I wound up getting a C in the class because it was group focused, and I carried my group the entire course by doing most, if not all, of the work. This was the point that I decided I didnt even like this school. Why did I even care? I didnt meet the criteria for a probationary re-admission after academic probation.I attempted researching other colleges I could attend instead that were still in the area or online. I found a college that I was very interested in that had my major, and required a 2.0 Cumulative GPA. I guess I only had a 1.8, and I was rejected. My options were to take 4 years off and do an academic bankruptcy in which Id have to start over or raise my GPA. I figured it shouldnt be too hard to raise my GPA, so I enrolled in the local community college. Bonus: maybe I could get my A.S. and it would make me more competitive considering I had then completed something.Fast forward a couple more months, I am currently in an entry level position in financial services with plenty of room to advance. I love my company. They offer 2,500 per year tuition reimbursement. I am taking 2 courses this semester towards an A.S. at a local community college. They want me to retake courses 24 credits more that I previously took in order to get my degree for example: English I, Public Speaking, Management, etc..Total credits: 83I think my GPA is around a 1.7 CumulativeI have some questions:1. Is there any way to appeal the transfer evaluation at the community college? I wont get double credit at a 4-yr school for retaking classes o did well in the first time.2. Does it make sense to graduate with the Associates before transferring to a Bachelors program? Or should I try to raise my GPA with the couple courses Id need to take as prerequisites and then try to transfer again?3. Is it even possible to raise my GPA that much considering how many courses I have managed to fail?4. Should I even bother trying to get my Bachelors Degree? I have always dreamed of getting a Bachelors and a Masters, but now Im thinking maybe its just not worth itunachievable given my past mistakes.TLDR; Fucked up in college due to depression, parents divorce, getting fired and major storm, failed a lot of classes, should I even bother trying to finish?  <response>: Where im coming from: I have about 120 units from 4 schools and have been going to college forever, changing my major and oscillating between poor performance and good performance. My GPA started 3.2 before my first transfer, got as low as 1.9 and is now back up to 2.9As for you, you mentioned your major and thinking of getting an AS or BS repeatedly, but never once said what that was. It really depends on the major and how competitive it is as to how much GPA matters for transfer eligibility. Graduating with an AS shouldnt take many or any depending on your school and transfer schools other classes that wont be necessary to get your BS anyhow, so in a lot of ways it doesnt make sense not to pick it up. Its not likely to open many new doors for you at just the AS level, but it should give you a leg up in areas that are already open to you, plus performing well on these courses will look good on a transfer application and show that youre trying supposing you actually do.It is feasible to raise your GPA back up but it will be a lot of worktake a lot of classes to do so. That said, again depending on major, GPA doesnt matter for much other than getting into a program, and even then 2.0 should be fine for most majors, after that your performance in those classes is what matters. A BS held by someone with a 2.3 GPA looks the same as someone with a 3.2 GPA unless they post that on their resume, and most industries dont care about the number, just the BS and them experience and strong contacts.If its a dream and your work is helping to pay for it then go for it, especially at 2 courses a semester, 2 courses is cake and you should be able to get As and start recovering your GPA. Though again, that said, taking only 2 courses it is going to take a considerable amount of time to finish your BS or even AS, thats 2 years just to finish the 24 credits they want you to retake, so it depends on if youre going to be in for that long of a haul how happy you are with your life and if you think you canwant to take the extra time out of your day. Hope this helps some, all of this is from my own experience with going to college forever, trashing and fixing my GPA. Im finally on course to get my BS in molecular biology in yet another couple years, and should be totally fine. However if I had tried to get into pharmacy instead it would have been a no go until I got my GPA to 3.5 aka impossible without wasting all my effort 