Damn you FSU!!! College changes school prerequisites!

[Ryan]

What a kick in the nuts. It doesn't help that I'm only taking two classes this semester, the last two that I would have to take at my community college to meet the old requirements. Now it looks like I'm going to have to take another semester of classes to meet the requirements......

I spoke with my advisor this past summer, and told him I was planning on transfering to FSU this spring - he said I was all set, just needed the two classes I'm taking now. OUr college works in correlation with the Panama City FSU campus (the whole reson FSU build a graduate campus in Panama City was due to demand from people coming out of our college). When I went and talked to him today, he said he must of forgotten to mention it when he was talking to me. :frown:

:|

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ouch. That sucks.

 

[crazycarl]

i hate advisors

 

[ironcrotch]

go back and kick him in the balls

 

[kranky]

You should not be forced to take another semester because the requirements changed at the last minute.

There is someone at FSU who has the authority to waive the requirements for you. There's someone at your school who knows who that is and can go to bat for you, probably the Dean of your school.

You should politely, but firmly, explain that it is unreasonable to expect you to take another semester because FSU changed their requirements at the last minute, or because your advisor forgot to mention the change. You took the classes that you were told to take. Don't blame the advisor, or FSU. Just stick to the story that they need to waive it for you because of the circumstances, the old requirements were obviously fine for everyone who went before you, and you aren't asking for special treatment. You're only asking them to let you move on to FSU under the requirements that were established while you took all your classes at the community college.

It's not as if you took a bunch of completely unrelated classes and want them to ignore all the requirements. You took exactly what you were supposed to take. All you want them to do is to extend the old requirements to apply to you - the exact same requirements that were perfectly acceptable up until the recent change.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Damn kranky, you're on a roll! :thumbsup:

 

[badmouse]

Your REAL education has begun. Time to start talking to higher-ups at your school, nicely of course, and see what can be done. Also talk to the powers that be at FSU.

Good luck.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: kranky
You should not be forced to take another semester because the requirements changed at the last minute.

There is someone at FSU who has the authority to waive the requirements for you. There's someone at your school who knows who that is and can go to bat for you, probably the Dean of your school.

You should politely, but firmly, explain that it is unreasonable to expect you to take another semester because FSU changed their requirements at the last minute, or because your advisor forgot to mention the change. You took the classes that you were told to take. Don't blame the advisor, or FSU. Just stick to the story that they need to waive it for you because of the circumstances, the old requirements were obviously fine for everyone who went before you, and you aren't asking for special treatment. You're only asking them to let you move on to FSU under the requirements that were established while you took all your classes at the community college.

It's not as if you took a bunch of completely unrelated classes and want them to ignore all the requirements. You took exactly what you were supposed to take. All you want them to do is to extend the old requirements to apply to you - the exact same requirements that were perfectly acceptable up until the recent change.

:thumbsup:

 

[Yomicron]

I'm not sure about FSU, but at the Arizona universities, your catalog year is the year when you either start the univerisity or when you start at an Arizona community college. If it is the same in Florida, then you should be held to whatever the requirements where when you started attending the CC.

 

[ggavinmoss]

(1) Check to see if you're grandfathered in with the old requirements.
(2) Don't rely on anyone -- research everything yourself.

-geoff

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
(1) Check to see if you're grandfathered in with the old requirements.
(2) Don't rely on anyone -- research everything yourself.

-geoff

If he's not in the system, he probably won't be grandfathered in unless he REALLY pushes for it. Go in and ask to speak to whoever's in charge of admissions and present your case. Just be sure to suck up....chances are, you're not the only one that's getting ripped off by the requirements change.

 

[Ogg]

dont give up yet!!

 

[eigen]

Remember this and employ it well. Never trust advisors, they mey be right most of the time but when they are not they will ruin your life.Take what they say as good advice but always check it out for your selves.

 

[ATLien247]

I don't know if this is how other schools do it, but with mine when you declared your major whatever requirements and prereqs were listed in the catalog the year you declared were valid until you graduated. Is this what others mean by grandfathering?