Secondly, I, too, faced the dreaded "need one course to graduate" thingie, only I knew it all along. But I was broke and therefore desperate to graduate, so I resorted to the following:
1) Typed up a letter from my Dept. Head to the class scheduling folks, explaining that this student had completed work previously that was not credited on his transcript, that the credit would be confered this semester, and that the apparent illegal overload of classes was actually just a result of this ex post facto course crediting. All this was true, so he signed it, but I carefully put no numbers in the letter.
2) Signed up for 27 semester hours of courses, mostly grad-level CS but also grad-level psych, chemistry, and linear algebra (this last is a whole war story of its own, but I digress). The absolute limit was 18 hours, but I had this nice open-ended letter, so they let me do it. I then proceeded to kill myself for 4 months under this class load.
3) About a month before graduation, I confessed the above to my dept. head. I had read him correctly -- he was much more impressed than angry. Then I told him that technically I was not eligible to graduate, but in the catalog where I was closest my only lack was having taken statistics for dummies rather than statistics for smart scientist guys. I reminded him of his years of refusing to grant me any credit towards graduation for my co-op work (where I learned a vast amount I could never learn in his college, but I didn't tell him that). Finally, I pointed out that, if he made me stay another whole semester to take one lousy course, he would have to put up with me. That clinched it, and he signed off and let me graduate. Hence my 4-year CS degree in only 5 semesters of college (spread across 4 years anyway due to co-op work and illness).
So you could always threaten them with your continued menacing presence on campus...
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Secondly, I, too, faced the dreaded "need one course to graduate" thingie, only I knew it all along. But I was broke and therefore desperate to graduate, so I resorted to the following:
1) Typed up a letter from my Dept. Head to the class scheduling folks, explaining that this student had completed work previously that was not credited on his transcript, that the credit would be confered this semester, and that the apparent illegal overload of classes was actually just a result of this ex post facto course crediting. All this was true, so he signed it, but I carefully put no numbers in the letter.
2) Signed up for 27 semester hours of courses, mostly grad-level CS but also grad-level psych, chemistry, and linear algebra (this last is a whole war story of its own, but I digress). The absolute limit was 18 hours, but I had this nice open-ended letter, so they let me do it. I then proceeded to kill myself for 4 months under this class load.
3) About a month before graduation, I confessed the above to my dept. head. I had read him correctly -- he was much more impressed than angry. Then I told him that technically I was not eligible to graduate, but in the catalog where I was closest my only lack was having taken statistics for dummies rather than statistics for smart scientist guys. I reminded him of his years of refusing to grant me any credit towards graduation for my co-op work (where I learned a vast amount I could never learn in his college, but I didn't tell him that). Finally, I pointed out that, if he made me stay another whole semester to take one lousy course, he would have to put up with me. That clinched it, and he signed off and let me graduate. Hence my 4-year CS degree in only 5 semesters of college (spread across 4 years anyway due to co-op work and illness).
So you could always threaten them with your continued menacing presence on campus...