Welcome to 1984. Because, you know, 2+2=5.
Or, in RU world, 105=34.
That's how many credits I ACTUALLY have, versus the number of credits RU decided to grant me when I transferred. Which means, despite the fact that I have an associates degree and 2 years of credit work towards a bachelors degree, I'm considered a sophomore and I can't actually register until this evening, 1 week after registration began.
Oh, bother.
There are many factors that go in to how they decide which credits to transfer in, and I had several things going against me, namely that my associates degree was earned in Wisconsin, my home state, and the bachelors degree I was previously persuing really has nothing to do with my current aspirations. My understanding is that if it were a New Jersey community college, I'd be just dandy. It wasn't like I anticipated moving to New Jersey and going back to school 12 years post degree, though.
Darn that husband of mine. It's all his fault.
Really, though, it's ok. The credits I have wouldn't have gotten me any closer to my current degree...there just would be several advantages to having more credits transfer in-namely being able to register earlier. At the same time, being a transfer student makes my aspirations to attend pharmacy school at Rutgers all the more difficult. Plus, minus, plus, minus. After awhile, I just want to stop weighing the plus and minuses.
Oh, and let's not get started on prereqs. They appear to be the bane of my existance, and something that seems to apply only to transfer students (yes, I know this might not be true, but, since I'm all in a tizzy, let's go with it.)
I tested into Precalc 111. Because I tested into Precalc 111, I could not take Gen Chem 1 this semester. I have to wait til spring. Fine. What is most annoying, however, is finding out that there are first years in my Precalc 111 who ARE in Gen Chem 1. How exactly does that work, I ask you?
In all cases, it may just be that I did not fight hard enough for myself. Granted, when I first recieved my transcript evaluation, I only had 9 credits transferring in. I had to do the leg work to prove that my previous school is actually accredited. In Intro to Chem, both my professor and TA have told me I'm wasting my time. I should have talked to the Chemistry advisor, and perhaps I would be in Gen Chem 1 this semester.
Fear of failing kept me from doing so, I suppose. I'd been so long since I'd had a chemistry class, I thought the refresher would do me well. However, because Spring is the 'off-semester' for Gen Chem, that means that there is only one lecture time. And that means that I can't be in choir next semester...which doesn't make me happy.
Moral of the story? Fight for yourself, because no one else is going to. Be persistant.
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