Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: I am appealing to the Associate Dean to waive the 21- day appeal deadline due to the fact that I was unaware of an issue with my grade from my first year at Queens until this past week in January, 2015.
During my first semester at Queens (Fall 2013) I was enrolled in the course ITLN P10 for both the fall and winter semesters. During the fall I found the transition to university very difficult and after having discussed it with my family and a P.A.S.S. peer counsellor, I decided to drop the course and continue my first year with 4 courses per semester instead of 5. At my appointment with the peer counsellor I was shown how to drop a course, and went home to do it myself in my Solus account. Both I and the peer counsellor had assumed that ITLN P10 was a full year course, and therefore I would be able to drop it past the fall course drop due date of October October 31st 2013. On November 15th, 2013 I attempted and believed myself to have succeeded in dropping ITLN P10, letting my professor, Brigitte E. Bachmann, know in person afterwards I would not be continuing in her class.
What I did not know was that while ITLN P10 did last the whole year, it was a two part course, requiring both a fall and winter enrolment. Under Solus it was two separate courses, one in the fall and one in the winter. Unbeknownst to me, I had been barred from dropping the fall semester portion of the course, and had only been successful in dropping the second. This resulted in a failing grade for the 3.00 unit fall course of ITLN P10. I was unaware of this until I accessed an unofficial copy of my transcript from my Solus account last week and discovered I had a failing grade. I was immediately distraught and sought help with an academic counsellor at the Faculty of Arts and Science, Haley Everson. She helped me go through my past activity in Solus and explained the mistake I had made over a year ago and advised I submit an appeal.
Due to my inexperience with the Universities course add/drop system, the mistake went unnoticed my me for over a year. As a result I would like to appeal to waive the 21- day appeal deadline in order to submit an appeal this year, to hopefully correct it.