Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: Dear Sir/Madam:

My name is Fan Chao, and I'm one of the students studying at Queen's School of Music. And my student ID is 10147275.

The reason that I submit this appeal is that I wish to late-drop a course, which is MUSC203, Romantic & Twentieth Century Music from 2015 Winter Term.

I'm currently taking 6 courses, and the work load is heavy to me at this point. Unfortunately, there were some family issues happened to me, which brought me a lot of worries and concerns. During Christmas, my grandma passed away, which gave all my families a huge strike, so I flew back to China to deal with some matters. After I came back for winter term, perhaps I had been over exhausted, I got really sick and couldn't even come to school. That's why I missed some classes and assignments at the beginning of this term.

I'm studying in Canada alone, there are also some other issues happened to my family, sometimes I felt very upset and homesick. This has been affecting my school life for almost two months, and it has a direct influence on my academic performance, I couldn't 100 concentrate on my academic studies because of those concerns and worries, and I kept failing tests and assignments in my course, which made me a lot more worried. Consequently, 6 courses are now out of my control, so I'm truly appealing for a permission that I can late-drop a course.

Indeed, I used to do a lot of self-counselling to tell myself that I can go through this hard time, however, it seemed not very effective if I suffered all on my own. Therefore, I have talked to a counselor, Dr.Bauermann from HCDS Counselling Service for some help. She gave me some suggestions and helped me to do some psychological counselling to make me feel better.

The course I'm going to drop, MUSC 203, is one of the courses of musicology, which requires a lot of reading, writing and thinking, I don't think I am able to do this course well at this point, so I'm truly asking again to drop this course for now and I will take it for my second year and I think I will be okay to do well at that time.

Thank you so much for the time

Sincerely,
Fan
Mar.24th,2015