Can you be rejected from community college?

I do this thing about three times a year: I decide I’d be much happier if I could just, finally, go back to school. Then I realise I don’t really know what I want to go back for that I can’t just study on my own for free, and something that would justify the student loan repayment. I almost always settle on something that would almost work, and then spend a great deal of time and a good deal of stress and tears talking myself out of doing anything at all.

The whim hit again this week, and I’ve decided to apply for community college, with the intent to get an Associate of Science degree with the school of Optomistry. If nothing else when it’s over I’ll have an AS, and while being a licensed optometrist isn’t the sexiest of professions, it does carry a decent enough salary.

I turned in the application earlier today. That’s the furthest I’ve ever come in this thrice-yearly whim.

Now the panic is setting in. I was told early in my senior year of high school that my parents and my church wouldn’t support me going to college, so I kind of gave up, academically speaking. Ended up with something like a 2.6 GPA. I never took the SAT or ACT. Never spoke with a counselor about school options or how to file for financial aid.

Anyway I’m kind of afraid they’re going to look at my application and transcript and see a 30 year old C-student who has never done anything and I’ll be like the third person ever to be rejected from community college.

I’m not sure I even have a question.