Petition Letter
September 26, 2019
To whom it may concern,
I am writing you to appeal for registration of a class after the September 18th deadline. It is my goal to join BIOL350 for the 2019 fall term.
The circumstances that have led me to want to enrol in BIOL350 after the deadline is an error in my own judgement that I solely accept responsibility for. When choosing my classes for the fall term, I only had 2 required courses for my degree plan which allowed me to pick a few other courses as electives. One of the courses I chose to take was CHEM398, a laboratory course without a lecture component. Given my past course history with chemistry, I assumed the content and workload would have been similar to previous second year level classes in the subject. Upon starting the course, there was no issue as working on an experiment that spanned a couple of weeks. After completing my first lab, I was tasked with writing up the report, which is when I had the realization that the standards of success in the class were substantially above what I had been used to/expected. As an elected course, the workload involved was very strenuous in comparison to my compulsory classes. To clarify, I had just finished the first lab and realized the effort required to succeed. Unfortunately, due to the length of the experiment, the deadline to add classes had already passed by the time I recognized the difficulties associated with the course. However, I still felt that it was in my best academic interest to drop the course and enroll in a less intense class before the semester progressed any further. Immediately after coming to that conclusion, I made an appointment with student services on the 24th of September to speak with an academic advisor to review my plan. With affirmation that my plan was fair and reasonable by the academic advisor, it was also restated that I would still need to file an appeal to join another class. As such I written to you today on this matter.
To whom it may concern,
I am writing you to appeal for registration of a class after the September 18th deadline. It is my goal to join BIOL350 for the 2019 fall term.
The circumstances that have led me to want to enrol in BIOL350 after the deadline is an error in my own judgement that I solely accept responsibility for. When choosing my classes for the fall term, I only had 2 required courses for my degree plan which allowed me to pick a few other courses as electives. One of the courses I chose to take was CHEM398, a laboratory course without a lecture component. Given my past course history with chemistry, I assumed the content and workload would have been similar to previous second year level classes in the subject. Upon starting the course, there was no issue as working on an experiment that spanned a couple of weeks. After completing my first lab, I was tasked with writing up the report, which is when I had the realization that the standards of success in the class were substantially above what I had been used to/expected. As an elected course, the workload involved was very strenuous in comparison to my compulsory classes. To clarify, I had just finished the first lab and realized the effort required to succeed. Unfortunately, due to the length of the experiment, the deadline to add classes had already passed by the time I recognized the difficulties associated with the course. However, I still felt that it was in my best academic interest to drop the course and enroll in a less intense class before the semester progressed any further. Immediately after coming to that conclusion, I made an appointment with student services on the 24th of September to speak with an academic advisor to review my plan. With affirmation that my plan was fair and reasonable by the academic advisor, it was also restated that I would still need to file an appeal to join another class. As such I written to you today on this matter.