New here - Looking to upgrade to a degree (Canadian resident)

[zzzz24]

So I sent my course syllabus in for my college English course I had taken at a B&M college years ago and supposedly it wasn't accepted for English composition, even though the syllabus is basically the same as what I see on SDC for their English Composition 1 course. I don't understand....

Also, if it doesn't qualify for English Composition, then it should at least count as a GenEd course, as my unrelated writing courses did! I don't understand their logic.

This is really frustrating to have to waste time/money re-taking something that has clearly already been completed.

[zzzz24]

My previous B&M course for English comp has now been accepted, after it was previously denied, because the adviser was looking at other course descriptions I had included in the email and missed this specific one entirely.

So now I wasted time/money completing English Comp 1 at SL, when it wasn't necessary.
I am going to end up having duplicate courses now, unless they can move it to one of the other categories, otherwise I am short a course, which could have been paid for and completed in the time I took to complete English Comp 1.

[davewill]

Try not to let it get you down. Very few people get through without "wasting" some credits someplace.

[zzzz24]

Try not to let it get you down. Very few people get through without "wasting" some credits someplace.

I am fine with courses not going towards certain areas of study that I had previously completed (or the free courses I took), but when I am paying for a course based on their incompetence, it's another matter...

[bjcheung77]

What did the English course number come in as? If it's not Eng Comp 101 or 102, it will go someplace such as gen ed or LL requirements for the AOS. If it's Eng Comp 101 or 102, then you have a duplicate that won't go anywhere but the "other field".

[zzzz24]

What did the English course number come in as?  If it's not Eng Comp 101 or 102, it will go someplace such as gen ed or LL requirements for the AOS.  If it's Eng Comp 101 or 102, then you have a duplicate that won't go anywhere but the "other field".

It's in English Comp 1 now. It was missing on my eval entirely when it was first populated. I called in and inquired about it being "missing" and then it was placed in the "other field" because they wanted more info on it.
I sent the syllabus for it, plus 2 for my other writing courses that were already accepted (I wanted to see if they would fit in English Comp 1/2 as well, but I knew those 2 were a long shot).

The adviser sent them to the dean, said it wasn't approved. It made no sense to me, so I kept emailing because I had sent the syllabus and it looked pretty close to me. She said the dean didn't approve it for English comp.
I kept emailing because if it's not accepted for English Comp, then why isn't it at least accepted somewhere else on my eval, as my other 2 writing courses were? Why would I get zero credit???

It turns out she didn't send the syllabus for my college English course! She forwarded the other 2 only. She didn't read the email properly or the subject line. I don't know how she sent 2, but missed 1, everything was labelled and spelled out in the email.

I basically paid $105 cad for that SL course and now it duplicates because of her. I still need an extra course because I thought at the very least, it's going to go to human cultures or somewhere else on the eval.

[davewill]

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It turns out she didn't send the syllabus for my college English course! She forwarded the other 2 only. She didn't read the email properly or the subject line. I don't know how she sent 2, but missed 1, everything was labelled and spelled out in the email.
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This is why we always say to ask only one thing at a time. Advising seems to always drop the ball if you give them more than one thing to think about. "If this, then that" is also too much to expect, sadly.

Yes, it seems stupid to have to treat them like that, but we've seen it time and again.

[zzzz24]

This is why we always say to ask only one thing at a time. Advising seems to always drop the ball if you give them more than one thing to think about. "If this, then that" is also too much to expect, sadly.

Yes, it seems stupid to have to treat them like that, but we've seen it time and again.

Yes, I agree. I wish I had just sent the one document.

Pretty sad though. It was a rather short and non-complicated email, sending them what they were looking for and asking if the other 2 could also be considered.