It's gonna be a day....
18 May 2022 05:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhikerHad to get Perry and two other rowers to the airport at 5am. So up at 4am. It's 5:41am, I'm back home and up for the day.
That does not, of course, mean either of us will be productive for the day, LOL.
Anyhow, they're headed to Tennessee for the ACRA (American Collegiate Rowing Association) championships.
Talked to Perry last night about his options. He'd been talking to a biology prof about the whole sitch and fwiw, the dude agrees with him that he needs to do whatever he can to get a BS but did say he should be able to make a credible med school application with a BA. While they were talking, Perry tells me, the dude (whom I like, btw) pointed out a few things that Perry had told him that should go into the next application, next fall. Sigh.
What pisses me off even more: because Perry came in with zero credits (no Running Start and his school didn't offer AP classes), he'd always had a late registration spot. This means that at times he's had to pad his schedule. However, he padded his schedule with upper-level math (advanced linear algebra and multi-variable calc), biology (genetics), and French classes. So not only would he only would he be stuck with a BA, he'd be stuck with a BA having taken many more STEM classes than are necessary for the BS.
That said, he's being proactive. He looked at the information UW provided for getting into the BS there, and checked off the classes he's had and the ones he'd need. The 6th year is inevitable. :( The thing that's upsetting is that if he goes the UW route, he apparently cannot get a French major or minor: if you transfer you are restricted to the one major you transferred into.
Even if he gets into the biochem major next fall for the following winter, I think it would still mean a 6th year, because the classes he needs are offered Fall/Winter/Spring and you have to take them sequentially.
Had we had to do it over again, we'd have told him to go to community college for two years and transfer to UW. He'd have missed out on rowing, though he probably would have rowed all year with the team he rows and coaches with over the summers. Western is over-enrolled if kids who want a BS cannot get one for lack of a lecture hall class. I mean, really? That's the only fucking class he can't get into. They take 32 and will not up enrollment at all for a lecture? Sigh. And it's a fucking bachelor of science, not a fucking engineering degree. I can see high barriers to entry for, say, a degree in chemical engineering, which is closer to a 4 year professional degree, but fucking chemistry/biochem/biology? Stupid.
And to be clear: the problem is not a BA. The problem is a BA in a hard science from a school that offers a BS. It will always be seen, rightly, as a less rigorous course of study in that case.
That does not, of course, mean either of us will be productive for the day, LOL.
Anyhow, they're headed to Tennessee for the ACRA (American Collegiate Rowing Association) championships.
Talked to Perry last night about his options. He'd been talking to a biology prof about the whole sitch and fwiw, the dude agrees with him that he needs to do whatever he can to get a BS but did say he should be able to make a credible med school application with a BA. While they were talking, Perry tells me, the dude (whom I like, btw) pointed out a few things that Perry had told him that should go into the next application, next fall. Sigh.
What pisses me off even more: because Perry came in with zero credits (no Running Start and his school didn't offer AP classes), he'd always had a late registration spot. This means that at times he's had to pad his schedule. However, he padded his schedule with upper-level math (advanced linear algebra and multi-variable calc), biology (genetics), and French classes. So not only would he only would he be stuck with a BA, he'd be stuck with a BA having taken many more STEM classes than are necessary for the BS.
That said, he's being proactive. He looked at the information UW provided for getting into the BS there, and checked off the classes he's had and the ones he'd need. The 6th year is inevitable. :( The thing that's upsetting is that if he goes the UW route, he apparently cannot get a French major or minor: if you transfer you are restricted to the one major you transferred into.
Even if he gets into the biochem major next fall for the following winter, I think it would still mean a 6th year, because the classes he needs are offered Fall/Winter/Spring and you have to take them sequentially.
Had we had to do it over again, we'd have told him to go to community college for two years and transfer to UW. He'd have missed out on rowing, though he probably would have rowed all year with the team he rows and coaches with over the summers. Western is over-enrolled if kids who want a BS cannot get one for lack of a lecture hall class. I mean, really? That's the only fucking class he can't get into. They take 32 and will not up enrollment at all for a lecture? Sigh. And it's a fucking bachelor of science, not a fucking engineering degree. I can see high barriers to entry for, say, a degree in chemical engineering, which is closer to a 4 year professional degree, but fucking chemistry/biochem/biology? Stupid.
And to be clear: the problem is not a BA. The problem is a BA in a hard science from a school that offers a BS. It will always be seen, rightly, as a less rigorous course of study in that case.
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Date: 19 May 2022 01:52 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 May 2022 02:39 (UTC)Poor Zane, on that registration priority. I'm sure he has a collection of classes that he wouldn't have taken if he hadn't been 17th on a waiting list for the class he did want and needed a few credits... and that's he a pro at having five different schedule options, as fallbacks?
A lot of tears have been shed of this situation, and not just mine.
"sustainability fellows" program that was part science, part b school. That sounds interesting!