NYU, WHYYY?

Apr 2, 2007 at 4:02 PM
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I might not graduate on time.

...[sigh]

I got a notice from the registrar saying I had four missing credits. Huh? Nah. What's up with that? So I printed out a Program of Study form, checked off the courses I've taken, and had some trouble at the bottom part, "Electives by Advisement". I checked off a few and added some courses that weren't listed there. And then...I found out where the missing credits were.

...

Okay, I am not blameless, but when you ask your adviser, "Hey, can you tell me what classes I have to take?" and he tells you "Yup, these two!" and leaves out a few (like the four credits) and then you tell him your schedule to check and he approves its OK-ness so you punch it into the registration thing and you are all registered and ready to go, at some point the adviser could've noticed that "Wait, you have to take more food electives!" Like....just....at any point...[rubs nose]...

Maybe I should stop trusting people.

I don't see any way around this unless I can pull 4 credits of independent study out of my butt. This is very bad, folks. I am pretty sick of school. And I definitely could've gotten these four credits done if I realized earlier "HEY I HAVE FOUR MORE CREDITS TO TAKE." Otherwise I have taken 129 credits, not so bad considering how Vassar credits translated to seemingly nothing in NYU credits.

Man man man man muh.

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I had the exact same thing happen to me at my undergraduate institution. They made me get 3 credits of "communicatons" study, which if anyone know me, if kinda laughable. yet, i didn't laugh. i cried with great wailing sobs. it sucked. i took a public speaking class at a community college cause i was so mad at my university. grrrrrrr.

Whoa, sorry to hear that! Food photography, food blogging and study of macarons doesn't count towards some credits? Hope you can sort it out somehow, and soon (says the naive European with no clue of how the US college credit system works)...

Oh noo....three credits?! Blech! Sad! Whatever I take has to be an NYU class since it has to be...food studies related...and....yeah. NYU used to have a communications req but they got rid of it, thank god.

Gawd, I wish those could all count as "independent study". But I don't think it's very academic. Man, all that food photography...I would've gladly TAKEN NYU's food photography and food styling courses but I could swear that they were never offered or there was always something conflicting for the past...three years. (But overall they're not offered much. Dumb.)

I think NYU is just gonna screw me over and make me pay more money. Admittedly my parents have enough money to pay for whatever more credits I need, but it feels wrooong uggnggn UGNGUNG.

The credit system isn't too complicated, but it's kind of....annoying. I need 68 specialization credits. And I guess I have...64. AHH HAHAHRHAHRAHA IAIOASD wimper.

Ugh... what a huge pain in the ass!!!!!!!!!! Are they going to make you pay for an entire semester of tuition for FOUR measly credits? If so, I hope you can find a whole courseload that you might like to milk it. Maybe take some classes toward graduate study?

Are they going to make you pay for an entire semester of tuition for FOUR measly credits?

From experience, they'll probably make you pay "maintaining matriculation", which is about a thousand bucks, plus your credits, if they're less than twelve. My grad advisor fucked me over by forgetting to give me a grade for the independent study I did with him, and so I had to give them a thousand bucks so they would basically just record the new grade the semester after I should've graduated.

I don't think they'd make me pay for a whole semester since with that few credits I'd be part time. I could possible do it in the summer...blech..BLEHCEHURIARUAER

NYU, WHYYY?

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