Academic Plan
I am nearing the end of my undergraduate degree and due to extenuating circumstances involving the COVID-19 pandemic, my own mental health, and attempting to compete as a varsity swimmer for the first 2.5 years of my degree, My GPA was quite low across my first 5 semesters. After 5 semesters I made the decision to quit swimming as I would like to attend graduate school and my GPA was far too low to do this. Following this decision I recently completed my 7th semester with a GPA of 3.9, an increase from 2.9 where it was a year prior. I have 24 credit hours remaining in my degree, and want to be able to prepare myself and give myself the best possible chances of getting into a graduate physics program, and I would like to be able to complete them by the end of the Fall 2024 semester and give myself time to work and gain more experience in a research position before going to graduate school. This is difficult with a restriction of 3 courses per semester, and as such I am requesting that I be given permission to attend Queens as a full time student for the remainder of my undergraduate degree. I wrote this appeal after I was informed by a friend of mine who is also a 4th year physics student at Queens, that a plasma physics course was being ran this semester for the first time which I am interested in taking (PHYS 493/ENPH 493). Because I have such a small number of remaining credit hours in my degree, I do not have any flexibility on when I can take these courses that I am interested in, and as such I am submitting this appeal.