I need some suggestions. Here's the story. I'm attending a small state school that has an accelerated program for people who already have a bachelors degree. The program used to be year round, no breaks and they broke it up into like quarters with so there were only a few classes per quarter. There was ATI testing for many of the classes, but they had a three strikes and you were out policy. If you didn't pass it the first two times there were chances for remediation working one on one with an instructor. This school was very warm and supportive and just felt like a good fit. I applied to this school and two others and got accept to it and one other. I decided to go to the state school and everything was fine until I actually started attending. First, they changed the quarters to semesters with about 20+ credits each semester including summer for one year. Then they said that they changed the ATI testing to pass it the first time or you fail your entire semester (and get kicked out of school). Alot of us are extremely distressed about this. We have a huge credit load and none of this was made known to us before entering this program. I myself would have chosen the other program that I got accepted into. We think its because of low pass rates that they are doing this. And in the student handbook that we received it does say we need to pass the ATI's,but does not say how many times we can take it (same wording as last years class who could take it three times). We are meeting with our dean to try to get them to change this. Any suggestions as to the arguments we can use? BTW no other school here does this. They all use ATI but have a three strikes and you're out policy. HELP!!! Please any suggestions would be great. Do you any of you know any schools where they did this and it backfired? (like a graduating class of 5 or something like that).
