Did you approach the Academic Dean? Often waivers are written for situations like this. As department chair and a program director I wrote many a waiver for all manner of situations. Colleges love having their graduation rate as high as reasonable (not just graduating folks for no reason), so if you’re one course short, depending on the circumstances, it could be mutually beneficial to get your degree on their books. I would make an appointment with the Academic Dean (whatever the specific title is at your Uni). Also, check for a CC course or online that could be transfered in- much cheaper!
I recommend taht since the OP wants to become a paralegal he/she go to a trade school.
Ace queries me: "That’s an awfully pat answer given that the OP has already taken some courses at this university. Did you actually read the thread? "
Yes I did. I don’t know what you mean by an awfully pat answer - unless you mean sensible. So the OP has taken some courses - big deal. They will help in the trade school. You want to become a parlegal become a paralegal. Spend a couple of thousand save tuition - or do both and get a degree that’s worth something while getting a parlegal ‘diploma’ from the trade school.
[I’ve been working 20 years with trade school paralegal training.]
How about the answers that say if you can’t figure this out you won’t be a good paralegal? Pat answer or well thought solution to OP’s dilemma?
Let me ask you back - did you read the thread? Because questiong my advice is of no help to the OP.
Just got a rather sketchy report from the Prof in the mail today.
This exactly goes to my earlier point. Your last post is completely useless as far as giving us any useful information that we can use to help you. I would bet good money that your email to the prof was equally useless.
Would you mind pasting your email to the prof and his response here.
Physical mail, not email. And I don’t own a scanner.
hajario– you are a tad off-base.
Academic are not to be second-guessed. In the past, I’ve gone through my academic records in the way you describe, & got blindsided by contra-rational & complete non-obvious regulations. A clear, formal ruling on my records is needed.
Now that I have some information, I’ll head down to the University Records Department, next week, & start my search there.
You sent your Prof a physical letter?
Its your life and I don’t know the details, but as described, I can’t understand your actions–presumably you had already “enrolled in a university at their fucking prices” for several semesters. Why would one more class be an undue burden if all the other classes you’d taken over the years weren’t?
Anyway, as others have said, the greatest probability is that if you’d gone to Student Affairs (or possibly even just the department chair) about it, they would have waived the requirement. They’re the ones who screwed up, after all.
I gave him an email address, and a physical one.
He chose physical mail.
Do you even read the things you reply to?
$6,000 a year for four years, to take 16 classes a year: that’s bad enough.
But to have to pay an additional $6,000 to take one single class? No way!
Also, I did follow up all administrative options. I filed a request for graduation in lieu of requirements – endorsed by the dean of the college in question! – and they still said no. The President of the University wrote me a polite letter, saying that he regretted the errors that were made by the University advising office, but that the responsibility was mine. (And, okay, I get that: I should have asked more questions.)
My only point here is that colleges and universities are rat-traps of bureaucratic land-mines, and that one must be damned careful not to step into one. My example was intended to be precautionary: try not to step where I stepped!
I don’t understand your point.
It’s odd that you’d have to pay the same amount for one class as you would for 16, and it’s odd that they didn’t grant the waiver.
Can I ask what university this was?
Who was that to?
Bosda, when were you last in this University?
Excuse me, would you please re-read what was posted?
I left him notes, letters & phone calls, with my email, phone number, and email address attached.
The professor responded by physical mail.
What was unclear?
1998
ITD had asked if you sent your prof a physical letter and you replied to that question By saying you gave him your email address and physical address, which doesn’t answer the question asked.
I took the response as an implicit “no,” though it looks like that was incorrect as he did in fact send letters to the prof.
It was clear to me. He clarified it was the prof who sent a letter, though his later clarification suggests he’d sent letters as well and didn’t use email.
San Diego State University. Tuition was pretty much a fixed price per year, and the wise student signed up for as many classes as he could make fit, right up to the cap on class-hours.
(I have very mixed opinions… They did a lot right, but they also did a lot wrong. I had some very good professors – some I’ve stayed in contact with after all these yers – and some utter dunderheads. Still, they had a really great science fiction club, and the old members are still most of my best friends!)