What happened
I didn’t pass enough subjects. To study there again, I’ll have to go through regular admission procedure again, but it’s too late to sign up for next year.
Passed subjects acceptance
Like other colleges, the one I went to accepts passed subjects from previous studies. So if you studied at a different college and passed the same subjects (within past x years), you don’t have to re-do them.
However, unlike with the others I checked, our college will only accept subjects passed at A or B. This probably makes sense, as they might not trust other colleges to hold students up to the same standards.
This means that I’ll have to retake the subjects I already passed.
Idea 1 - immediate transfer request (not possible)
Not wanting to wait a year, I hoped to go to different college of the same university, and ask for transfer right after registration. (If rejected, idea 2)
Unfortunately, the university’s rules only permit transfers within the same field, and the same one is not available to sign up for anymore.
Idea 2 - Piggyback on different college for a year
There are 2 colleges on the same university that still accept students and offer housing on a dorm in the same city.
The university rules also permit students to change their study plans, with possibility of registering subjects on different colleges of the same university.
Thus my idea was to officially “attend” College of Mechanical Engineering (which is desperate enough to have no entrance exams), withdraw from all their subjects, and register relevant subjects on College of Informatics.
I asked the study department about my plan. They confirmed it should be possible, but the A/B grading requirement remains.
How does that make sense?
I could take their subjects at their own college, pass them by their own standards, yet they themselves wouldn’t accept them.
Alternatively, I could attend an easier college with lower standards, spend less effort for A/B, and pass just the same.
Alternative ideas
Only idea 1 makes sense economically (if the request got accepted), as otherwise I’d pay for 2 extra years rather than just one.
That sucks, I wished to basically go “hey, I am still here like a cockroach”.
So to stay here, it’s best to just get a job for a year and try not to loose too many fingers (all I found in my location with provided training and no required education is “plastic press operator” or “metal machinist”).
Or give up, and study a different field.
Who cares if they don’t accept courses you’ve already passed. You’re not planning on graduation from 2nd school. You want to graduate from 1st school. When regular admissions open up again in the future for 1st school, you go there and transfer the credits in you earned at and 2nd school. Your prior 1st school credits (below As and Bs) will still be at 1st school so you won’t have to worry about them being accepted as transfer credits because you’d not be transferring them in from outside as the those low grade credits are already inside.
Do you have nothing bu IT-related credits you have to earn for you degree? You’re completely done with 100% of your Math, History, Art, and Science credits no related to IT? If you have any of those non-IT credits you still need to earn, thats what you can do this year at 2nd school. Next year you can go back to 1st school and work on IT related credits again.
Well I guess this is one area the USA is better. There are agreed standards that allow for nearly seamless transfer of student’s credits between large groups of universities and colleges.
Okay, so take courses at 2nd school, do well in 2nd school classes, and send the request to have those credits accepted at 1st school next year.
Otherwise it sounds like your best choice is to give up on school this year, and truly commit yourself next year. Any chance you have enough IT experience to get a junior role so you can at least be growing in your field while you’re out of school?
That is what my post was about. The people at study department at 1st school told me they won’t accept grades below B, including what I already earned at 1st school. They just won’t count when I go there again, it’s treated the same as transfer.
In case of 2nd school, basically any other college would most likely accept any lower passing grades.
That would be no, unfortunately.
Something is missing here.
Are they saying that [C and below is a failing grade] for every person that took that class forcing each of those people to retake the class? Or does the [C and below is a failing grade] only for students that didn’t score high enough to continue attending the school and the act they are telling you is your only path to rejoin the school by re-applying through the admissions process is the trigger for [C and below is a failing grade] for those classes?
It’s just that if I re-apply, they’ll treat me as a new student all over again (and as such they only allow admission into the first year). Their own courses don’t get any special treatment, aside from not requiring me to also send them syllabi for those.
This means failing in the 3rd year would be a disaster as I’d have to do the entire 3 years all over again. Or go to a different college. There’s basically one for people who failed the college I went to (many such cases).
Anyway, to sum it up:
Thank you for this follow up response. I understand why the college does this now.
I feel for you that this means more work ahead for you. I wish you luck going forward.