humbleman
Mar 12, 2009, 10:14 AM
Hello everyone,
This may not apply to everyone but here goes the story:
I will make it short and try not to waste your time. 2 year colleges do not mean that you will always graduate in 2 years. 4 years colleges try to keep you there for more that 4 years.
At the 2 year college I attended they enrolled kids straight out of high school into catch up coarses that had to be taken before you could even start on pre- reqs. .
My first semester at the 4 year college a student told me how relieved they were to FINALLY get to take this coarse. It was not offered every semester and they had to wait around an extra year because it was required for them to graduate.
I remember thinking to myself," man I hope they don't pull that on me". I was able to take all of the pre-requisites for the 4 year college program at my 2 year college so I was looking forward to getting in and getting finished.
I have not gotten into this program and have been told to declare a different major if I want to graduate; so that is what I did. If I new that I could have been working toward a bachelors I would have been out already.
Here is the important part to read:
Fast forward a bit; now I've hung around 2 extra semesters and have begun my last 2 coarses to graduate with a bachelors. I have enrolled in my coarses and have started the LAST semester and run a degree audit. The audit tells me that I need 2 more coarses and the pre-req's that go with them. To make this story end I will tell you that my "advisor" has been useless and I ended up doing the digging myself. There is an "old curriculum sheet and a new curriculum sheet". The old curriculum sheet was supposed to be done away with. I was going by the New curriculum sheet and was unaware of an Old curriculum sheet so I bypassed my advisor and went to someone who oversees the graduation requirements and now it is straightened out. I asked this professor how many other kids have they pulled this on? No answer, obviously, because I do not think that they know where to look.
If you are set to graduate and they spring some extra coarses on you then ask someone in Administration to check if they switched you to the "old curriculum".
Sorry for being so long,
humbleman
This may not apply to everyone but here goes the story:
I will make it short and try not to waste your time. 2 year colleges do not mean that you will always graduate in 2 years. 4 years colleges try to keep you there for more that 4 years.
At the 2 year college I attended they enrolled kids straight out of high school into catch up coarses that had to be taken before you could even start on pre- reqs. .
My first semester at the 4 year college a student told me how relieved they were to FINALLY get to take this coarse. It was not offered every semester and they had to wait around an extra year because it was required for them to graduate.
I remember thinking to myself," man I hope they don't pull that on me". I was able to take all of the pre-requisites for the 4 year college program at my 2 year college so I was looking forward to getting in and getting finished.
I have not gotten into this program and have been told to declare a different major if I want to graduate; so that is what I did. If I new that I could have been working toward a bachelors I would have been out already.
Here is the important part to read:
Fast forward a bit; now I've hung around 2 extra semesters and have begun my last 2 coarses to graduate with a bachelors. I have enrolled in my coarses and have started the LAST semester and run a degree audit. The audit tells me that I need 2 more coarses and the pre-req's that go with them. To make this story end I will tell you that my "advisor" has been useless and I ended up doing the digging myself. There is an "old curriculum sheet and a new curriculum sheet". The old curriculum sheet was supposed to be done away with. I was going by the New curriculum sheet and was unaware of an Old curriculum sheet so I bypassed my advisor and went to someone who oversees the graduation requirements and now it is straightened out. I asked this professor how many other kids have they pulled this on? No answer, obviously, because I do not think that they know where to look.
If you are set to graduate and they spring some extra coarses on you then ask someone in Administration to check if they switched you to the "old curriculum".
Sorry for being so long,
humbleman