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Petition Type: New
ID: 13254
Submitted: May 29, 2025 at 3:40:48 AM
First Name: Lingjie
Last Name: Kong
Pronoun: LK
Preferred Name: Jasmine
Student Number: 20260304
Degree Program: BSH
Plan: LISC
Level of Study: 4

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Petition Categories: Waive the requirement to withdraw for one year

Petition Letter

Petition Letter: To whom it may concern:
Hope this email finds you well.
I am Jasmine Kong with student number 20260304, I am writing this letter because I received a letter that said I may need to drop out from school for one year several days ago, and I want to explain a bit about my situation and beg for a chance to continue studying. To be honest, I felt a little surprised when I firstly saw it, because I used to think that I will be asked to drop from school last year, but I never thought hat I will be asked to drop out this year as although I can't say I have best situation this year, but at least I have finished all the works expect for sometimes I will defer exams. But after talking with academic advisor, I started to realize that what problem has appeared during all my university years. I found that it's so true that I wasted too many chances to take classes and in the end they all became useless during the past two years. I was too worried about to be different from others (For example, too worried to graduate late) so I always choose lots of classes even I can't do that. Also, I was too scared to take exams, so sometimes this kind of anxious feeling will cause a series of bad reactions in my body that made me have to defer exams. Not only that, but this kind of feeling also made my mind become blank even when I was siting there and taking exams, think it's the main reason for why I can't do well in exam even this in winter as this kind of situation really happened very often before and struggled me for a long time just like what I used to tell my QSAS advisor and Student Wellness teacher. But after receiving the letter, I really realized that I have to overcome these things in a more complete and stronger way as soon as possible as I really don't want my study to be stopped and I know the time won't be wait for me again. So, I talked about all these troubles that I face with my sister and have found some good ways to solve them. For this, I will write more details in the plan part, I will just explain some outcomes until now. The summer classes has been opened for almost one month now and with using these methods, I think I am good at following the learning process right now as I am always in the same track with my professors and I didn't leave anything behind. Sometimes, I can even go ahead of them. So, I think I really have more energy now to face the new semester and I think I am good for continuing study. I know my GPA still seems to be not good for these two semesters, but I will try my best to make it become better as firstly I already in the process of preparing my deferred exams for MICR 221 and PHAR 100, and these two exams will happen in August and September just like the time I had scheduled with my professors and I will try my best to do it as well as I can. So, my mark for these two classes won't be the one it looks like right now. For Micr 221 I actually got 22 marks reduced and phar 100 I only got 14 marks reduced right now. As a result, I think I can get good marks for both of them after taking the two exams, thus, my GPA will be boosted up a bit. Additionally, for Phar 100 in Fall, I am still in the way for requesting a chance to complete it, but if it won't work, I will try to drop it. PHGY 216 is in the same situation right now, I am still waiting for response to complete deferred exam, but professor in this course also said that he will allow me to drop it if the exam can't be completed. Finally, I also will try to drop PHGY 215 with other classes after submitting this request just like what the academic advisor suggested. I think all these things will help with improving my GPA. All in all, I really have realized the problems that I have for my study right now and have found really helpful ways to solve them. This year is really important to me, I really want to continue study in the school, please give me one last chance, I really will do better this time.
Thank you so much for your help and sorry for everything happened.
Best,
Jasmine

Academic Plan

Academic Plan: I have carefully scheduled everything that I need to do everyday in a detailed timeline. After learning and making notes for each module per class, I will let my sister to ask questions based on the notes. If I got something wrong or forgotten, I will make flashcards for them and put them everywhere to review and be tested in different ways until I got it exactly right. We ensured that I will study 6 hours per day, and I think it's a perfect for me as I really learned something without getting too tried. After finishing study, we go outside almost everyday now to do something I like such as taking photos so that I can truly relax myself and have more energy to do work. What's more, for overcoming anxiety for exams, I will do one past paper per day about a week before the exams while treating them like real exams to get used of that feeling. I will also keep getting in touch with Student Wellness and QSAS because I think all my advisors are warm and helpful. I also plan to contract with career advisor tomorrow so I can get a clearer plan for the future as I found that I have a little knowledge about the careers I can do after finishing LISC program, and I think have a clear future plan would be very helpful in reducing my anxiety. I will also start to look at all the classes that I have taken before rather than just deal with this passed year's classes just like what the academic advisor suggested. I will start with getting good marks in Summer to prove what I said, so please give me one last chance, I really will do better this time!

Documentation

Professional Letter Detail: Haven't got one now but my Student Wellness counsellor said that she will provide one for me as soon as possible
Document: VECJK-5.pdf

Amendment to Appeal 13254

Petition Type: 2
ID: 13286
Submitted: June 5, 2025 at 4:03:32 PM
Relevant Petition: 13254
Student Number: 20260304

Documentation