TESU Capstone Registration

[Merlin]

I had sent an email request to the registrar at TESU, about expediting the academic evaluation process for me, so I can enrol for the Capstone. Today, I received an email that it is done. I logged on to see that they have missed evaluating one very important 3-credit UL course from study.com!! I had planned with my advisor for this to be part of my AOS. Also, one of the 2-credit TEEX courses which I completed way back in September and transferred back then itself, has been chucked out of my academic evaluation, as there are currently more than 120 credits planned in my evaluation. As a result, it shows that I currently only have 95 credits, instead of 100! This is quite frustrating, but I guess these oversights are due to some automatic computer program that evaluates credits? I have written to them again, asking to check the study.com transcript well, and include the upper level course. And also bring in the TEEX course, and chuck out some other unfinished course for the time being.

After courses are processed and added to your record I believe they will be populated based on an algorithm which tries to find the best spot for each course, but it isn't all that intelligent. My first pass at automatic population ended up like you, with a bunch of courses in the wrong spot so I ended up being short 3-4 credits of graduation, with those extra courses stuck in other places and too many unused credits. I ended up having to open a ticket with advising and ask them to move specific courses around to match my own planned course positioning. The second pass they missed a couple of things so that time I ended up being short by 0.34 credits or something. The third try was the charm... after another ticket, they finally got everything worked out so I met graduation requirements and the 1.67 unused credits I had were those I expected.

So yeah, don't be afraid to ask them to move stuff where you want it. But be prepared to think creatively if things don't match what you imagine. For example, I had one course that I couldn't put where I wanted, but I was able to replace it with another course during the third revision so everything fit; I still ended up with as few unused credits as possible.