Alright, update time on my degree issue. If you read my recent post about how I ended up failing a class, which is a huge fault of mine, but also with several issues from the school. Anyway, you can read that here. So a little over a week after I got the news about not graduating and talked to the advisor, I got an email back from the dean of the COBA, but he also ended up calling my house and talking to my mom and then called my cell phone and was in the process of figuring out what we could do so I could move on and keep the job I had lined up.
First off, he said he was an "old-timer" and there were many classes he would never take online and the finance class was one of them. Then he said if we switched my major to a general studies course, I could get around taking that class and graduate now with a bachelor's degree. Plus in the next few years, I could come back and take the finance class and end up graduating again, but with an actual business degree, which he said I would be able to do quite a bit with it.
I would end up being six hours short of the new degree, but they would be electives and he said they could wave them, but I would have to take some test. But as soon as I pass the test, I'm done. Then I realized I technically had the six hours they just never got transferred, because I was told there was a 72 hour transfer limit. According to him, there is a sort of limited with junior colleges, but not with credits from a four-year university. And guess what? Those extra six I had... were from a four-year university!!! They were from my study abroad program to Rome last year.
So that was a game changer - he talked to the registrar's office and realized I never even sent over a transcript from the University of Dallas. So the next day I drove up to Irving to get a copy sent to TSU and get a physical copy, so I could scan it over to the dean, so they could take a look at it and make sure the credits would actually transfer.
Got a call the next day, saying they were 99.9% sure they would, but confirmation would come after the new year, just because of the mail-time is slow this time of year and the closure of the schools. But YOU GUYS!! THIS MEANS I'M GRADUATING!!!!! And I can go back next year, to take the financial class again and end up with a second degree!
Then he said I actually should not have taken a class I did because the finance class was a prerequisite and they should not have given me permission to take it, or if I had taken it beforehand I could have ended up with a better grade, than what I did. Problem was, I was not informed that there even was a prereq and was given the permission, because it was suppose to be my last semester.
It seems surreal that this all come about and it all come about all of the sudden. But in reality, I am proud that I have worked through my classes and accomplished what I set out to do, plus some (a lot). Grateful, that at least someone at the school cared enough to help me figure out what the maximum possibility was.
XOXO,
Suzanne Marie
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