Petition Letter
Dear Associate Dean and Board of Academic Appeal,
My name is David Stehr, I am an International Student at Queen's. My situation is the following, due to the new Canadian Immigration Laws my initial application for my study permit to re-enter Canada was rejected on August 28th, therefore instead of arriving on-time for the Fall semester, I had to re-apply with additional documentation. This resulted in me missing the last three weeks of school, I only returned on the 21st of September, two days after my VISA was approved.
Today, Monday the 24th of September, I visited my Academic Counselor to make sure I am still on track to graduate for this coming Spring, and I learned that I still needed 3.0 more ECON credits to finish the 400 level critieria for the Economics part of my degree. My problem is that I was initially enrolled in ECON435 but since I did not know when I would be able to return to Canada and the proportions of the academic workload, I dropped it before the deadline(September 18th). Now that I am back and was able to evaluate my workload for the coming semester, I am positive that I can complete the course to the best of my abilities.
During my exile, I put it a request for academic exemption since I was not able to keep up with the in-class participation for my PSYCH classes and other ECON classes, but I was still able to complete all the online tasks and assignments required. ECON435 featured very little on ONQ, which was another reason I chose to drop the class initially, since I was unsure how I would be able to study the course material without any notes/lecture slides or a text-book.
I hope you allow me to re-add the class and complete my degree so I am able to graduate this spring.
Thank you for your time,
David Stehr
My name is David Stehr, I am an International Student at Queen's. My situation is the following, due to the new Canadian Immigration Laws my initial application for my study permit to re-enter Canada was rejected on August 28th, therefore instead of arriving on-time for the Fall semester, I had to re-apply with additional documentation. This resulted in me missing the last three weeks of school, I only returned on the 21st of September, two days after my VISA was approved.
Today, Monday the 24th of September, I visited my Academic Counselor to make sure I am still on track to graduate for this coming Spring, and I learned that I still needed 3.0 more ECON credits to finish the 400 level critieria for the Economics part of my degree. My problem is that I was initially enrolled in ECON435 but since I did not know when I would be able to return to Canada and the proportions of the academic workload, I dropped it before the deadline(September 18th). Now that I am back and was able to evaluate my workload for the coming semester, I am positive that I can complete the course to the best of my abilities.
During my exile, I put it a request for academic exemption since I was not able to keep up with the in-class participation for my PSYCH classes and other ECON classes, but I was still able to complete all the online tasks and assignments required. ECON435 featured very little on ONQ, which was another reason I chose to drop the class initially, since I was unsure how I would be able to study the course material without any notes/lecture slides or a text-book.
I hope you allow me to re-add the class and complete my degree so I am able to graduate this spring.
Thank you for your time,
David Stehr