I am sooooooo stressed I need help!!

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I am so stressed, I am still taking my pre req's and I had a math090 class to take over the summer online. The instructor didnt send out any teachings or anything like that just a practice test and we were to go on campus and take the actual test at the testing center. He gave us five test and they all had to be turned in by a certain day. I studied as hard as i could and was trying to do the best at teaching myself this material. Everything was due by a friday and it was five test I took them all the week before, and this man didnt count my last three test because he said he didnt get them in his office until monday morning and he's not counting them so that gives me a "F" for this class. i went to the Dean and they told me i should have made sure they were there by friday and if I cant get him to count them it is nothing they can due. O.K so I did all that, needless to say he is not budging. I go and enroll for the next mat090 but on campus and the they tell me I have no FA. I went to their office and I had to fill out an academic progres report for and get that approved so I can get FA. And all this stems from that damn "F". So then they tell me it was denied so now I dont know what to do. I have passed all my classes up til now and I have been crying all morning and I'm trying to figure out how the hell am I going to pay for school. The lady at the FA office told me to try again next semester, but I want to finish school not drag it all out. This sucks cause my feelings are sooo crushed.:crying2:

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I'm so sorry to hear all of this. It does suck.

I thought they have to put you on counseling for like a semester or two before they could just flat out deny your aid? At least that is the way it is at my school. If your GPA drops below 2.0, they put you on counseling and you have 2 quarters to pull it up. Is there anything else going on that is affecting the aid?

Also, for next time (because you'll find a way to make it through) whenever I have to turn anything in on campus, like to an office, there is a machine where I have my paper stamped with the date and time. I would look into that to see if that is available that way it won't happen again.

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@happy2learn Thank you for your kind words, This school is very strict, I have an appt. on monday to speak with the director of FA to see if I can sway his decision. When we need to go in to to take test and things they swipe our ID cards so they have me on file there. My GPA was a 3.7 before the F so hopefully i will have better news on monday.

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That's beyond ridiculous. I don't understand why they don't pull the file to prove you were there. That makes no sense.

I don't understand how 1 F can drop your GPA low enough to withhold aid. I always thought that there had to be an academic probation program.

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Thats the same thing I was thinking. The women in the FA office keeps giving me the run around thats why I set up a meeting with the director. I am so ready to transfer somewhere else because it is to much with them with the littlest things.

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I've never had luck with the people in financial aid. Anytime I have an issue it seems like it's a student answering and 99% of the time they have no clue what they are talking about.

If you keep getting the run around, I would probably consider transferring.

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I just wanted to let you know that I did go and I was finally able to talk to the Director of FA and he over turned the decision and now my aid is reinstated.

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Shanta, Im so glad you are able to get money to retake the class. I am confused about your exams though. If you turned them in the week before, why werent they in his office by friday? That does not seem fair at all.

I had a bad experience with taking timed, one chance only on-line quizes and never want to take an online class. My quizes would not submit and I had to go and beg the teacher 3 times to reset my quiz. This was in a regular class, not online!

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It was very nerve recking to say the least. But I am not going to tale any more online classes because I cant put myself through that stress again. The director seen my point and thats why he reinstated it, I did file a complaint against the teacher and found out that I was not the only one.:)

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That sounded pretty stressful! Sheesh! Glad that it is working out for you though, hope you have a better semester. :)

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Shaunta20 - I'm so sorry you had to go through this - professors come in both varieties (good and bad). My dad died 3 1/2 weeks into my last semester of pre-reqs...I was taking an online course and the online professor did not believe me, even when I presented him with a copy of the obituary. I had missed an exam and he was unwilling to let me retake it because he wanted a weeks notice that I was going to miss the test. I'm so sorry I could not tell him ahead of time that my 50 year old father was going to die unexpectedly - how inconsiderate of me.

At any rate, it was after drop-add & I was so upset & could not really think straight on what to do. A friend told me to talk to the dean of student affairs & see if they would let me withdraw from the course (I had already tried getting that office to intervene with the professor - it didn't work), they did end up letting me withdraw, but I lost the cash for the course and I still had to retake it which pushed me back yet another semester for starting NS.

All I can say is hang in there and it will all work out one way or another. I'm starting my last semester of NS next week and it's worth all the BS I had to deal with to get here!

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