Withdrawl Forms!!!

[technical.angel]

I love reading the reasons for withdrawls on the withdrawl forms. And these are the reasons why students are withdrawing from the university.

Many have probably seen my other threads. Since all of them are locked, I'm starting another one.

Nestled in with all the transfers, I have one student who's withdrawing after his FIRST DAY.

The other one is just... well, post worth. She has a 0 GPA, so I'm guessing she's also a freshman. Her reason.. "Changing directions to acheive goals due to money strain and logical approach."

[SteeleDragon78]

Her reason.. "Changing directions to acheive goals due to money strain and logical approach."

Translation: im quitting because this is hard and im broke. also i cant survive on ramen any more. whine whine whine.

translated for my amusement

[BrassCowboy]

Nestled in with all the transfers, I have one student who's withdrawing after his FIRST DAY.

Well, to be fair, some people are not cut out for college. Plus, when I was going to school, I knew lots of professors who tried to be badass by not introducing themselves and going straight into lecture or assigning 50 page reading assignments on the first day. This usually weeded out the people who were only going to school to appease their parents.

[Aethian]

My roommate had wanted to do that. Withdraw on the first day, Parents kept her in and she turned out to be a failing wild child.

[prb]

I'm going to be withdrawing tomorrow because I am not learning anything, an assignment worth 5% of my mark should take more than 5 minutes to do and in another class I did a 1200 word essay for my homework, everyone else did 2 or 3 sentences. So I'm withdrawing due to a lack of intelligence and low academic standards.

Is this acceptable for the forms: "Withdrawing due to other students displaying low intelligence"?

[Aethian]

Cant you talk to the student rep and see if you can retake the placement tests and maybe go into higher level classes?

[Bandit]

PRB - See if you can skip a level - being able to skip a year at college really helped to make it tolerable.

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[JLRodgers]

My first week of college resulted in:
2 essays due at the end of the week being 5-10 pages each.
600 pages (about) read by Friday of the week for all classes combined (one class assigned one entire textbook as needing to be read by that Friday -- 200+ pages, others assigned 50-60 pages or up to a quarter of a textbook).

I went back home during break and heard other college students complain that they had "a 10 page essay due as the final for their class".

So for some that college is "too hard" they could easily just try another college. Some kick your butt -- others are like a laid back high school.


Oh, but people that are bored at college and all -- do see if you can test out of classes! It saved me from having to take like 3 or four dumb classes.

[prb]

Cant you talk to the student rep and see if you can retake the placement tests and maybe go into higher level classes?

No, Canada doesn't do testing for post-secondary education, it's basically "graduate high school, start post-secondary". Admission is based on high school marks exclusively. I did "International Business and Technology" which is wonderful, but a lot of work. 1 of my high school teachers had a Ph.D., one was working towards a Ph.D. and a few others had masters degrees. Hence, they issued a lot of work and graded hardly. I'm used to a lot of work, and my family is making me do community college instead of Uni to save them money

My first week of college resulted in:
2 essays due at the end of the week being 5-10 pages each.
600 pages (about) read by Friday of the week for all classes combined (one class assigned one entire textbook as needing to be read by that Friday -- 200+ pages, others assigned 50-60 pages or up to a quarter of a textbook).

I would LOVE that.

Oh, but people that are bored at college and all -- do see if you can test out of classes! It saved me from having to take like 3 or four dumb classes.

I would need to be able to prove previous education or life experience to qualify for PLAR. It's kind of hard for an 18 year old to prove either of those.

[Aethian]

No, Canada doesn't do testing for post-secondary education, it's basically "graduate high school, start post-secondary". Admission is based on high school marks exclusively. I did "International Business and Technology" which is wonderful, but a lot of work. 1 of my high school teachers had a Ph.D., one was working towards a Ph.D. and a few others had masters degrees. Hence, they issued a lot of work and graded hardly. I'm used to a lot of work, and my family is making me do community college instead of Uni to save them money

Well fudge. I'm sorry I hope it goes well and hope you don't leave and instead completely decimate the curve.

[prb]

Well fudge. I'm sorry I hope it goes well and hope you don't leave and instead completely decimate the curve.

I hope to apply to Ryerson or York (local Universities) to start in January, but apparently then I'll have 8 months of solid work with no summer break Or I could work until next September and then start again

[Aethian]

Lots of people work with no summer break. You can do it.

[JLRodgers]

I would need to be able to prove previous education or life experience to qualify for PLAR. It's kind of hard for an 18 year old to prove either of those.

Well that sure sounds dumb in a sense.... if you know something, you know it. The "testing out of" things I took were probably harder than the actual class itself - and there were no textbooks or info on what it was about.

Sorry

[WanderingSaint]

Just try talking to a councilor and a few professors first. They may be able to get you through the tape. I had the same problem but in high school and hey would not allow me to test for English to move up, since I'd been going to a private school across the world up until that time. Apparently the district in Nova Scotia I moved to didn't supposedly allow you to challenge 'main courses' (languages/sciences)

I was able to wrangle around some tape, there were signatures of my guardians needed and some other stuff, but I was able to get my arse into grade 12 english, biology, and physics in grade 10.

College is a mixed bag, I went to a private school, but was able to wrangle challenge tests out of them even though they didn't really have any and got myself forward two semesters (though originally I wanted to move forward four, but I got a half and half and half and that would have to do, they wanted to make money off of me afterall!). seriously look in to things. There is a way (at least in BC) to challenge and move forward, you've just gotta find the darn thing. Fresh out of high school or no!

GOOD LUCK!