Petition Letter
RE: JOSHUA FISCHTEIN, 20335835, request to drop the course late due to extenuating circumstances
Dear Associate Dean (Academic),
I submit this petition to drop ASTR 101 (Fall, 2022) past the withdrawal deadline due to the following extenuating circumstances:
- Assignment 1 grades were not released until 12 days after the official drop deadline.
- Three mini-assignment grades were not released until 35 and 36 days after the official drop date.
- there was an incident with my instructor which impacted my ability to communicate with him, which affected my performance in the course.
- The instructor did not provide a rubric in a written format.
- I filed a pending petition to have two assignments regraded. However, I was advised that since one assignment is not eligible to be regraded due to late submission, only one would be regraded. The petition office suggested I make this petition to withdraw late instead.
The official drop date is November 1, 2022. I submitted assignment 1 on October 18. I received a grade of 26% on November 12. I was given the opportunity to resubmit assignment 1, and the final grade was 29%. There were three other assignments where I was not provided with grade feedback until December 5 and 6.
Would I had understood that my grades would have been this low, I would have dropped the course before the deadline.
Sometime in October, an incident occurred with my instructor, which impacted my ability to communicate with Prof. William Joyce. In an attachment to this petition, I have outlined what transpired in an email to my academic advisor, Charan Rainford.
Yours truly,
Joshua Fischtein
Dear Associate Dean (Academic),
I submit this petition to drop ASTR 101 (Fall, 2022) past the withdrawal deadline due to the following extenuating circumstances:
- Assignment 1 grades were not released until 12 days after the official drop deadline.
- Three mini-assignment grades were not released until 35 and 36 days after the official drop date.
- there was an incident with my instructor which impacted my ability to communicate with him, which affected my performance in the course.
- The instructor did not provide a rubric in a written format.
- I filed a pending petition to have two assignments regraded. However, I was advised that since one assignment is not eligible to be regraded due to late submission, only one would be regraded. The petition office suggested I make this petition to withdraw late instead.
The official drop date is November 1, 2022. I submitted assignment 1 on October 18. I received a grade of 26% on November 12. I was given the opportunity to resubmit assignment 1, and the final grade was 29%. There were three other assignments where I was not provided with grade feedback until December 5 and 6.
Would I had understood that my grades would have been this low, I would have dropped the course before the deadline.
Sometime in October, an incident occurred with my instructor, which impacted my ability to communicate with Prof. William Joyce. In an attachment to this petition, I have outlined what transpired in an email to my academic advisor, Charan Rainford.
Yours truly,
Joshua Fischtein