University Suspension?

Question

I have recently gotten suspended from my uni for low grades first year ..i have been told to appeal it through a letter does anyone have any good ideas on how i should communicate the fact that the field i originally chosen wasnt right hence the low marks..plz help!

i took a chem course over the summer which i received two Ds on this is why i got suspended..my marks from first year were still reasonable..i took the course thinking i could one day go to med school but now i think otherwise

Answer 1

“I am writing this letter to appeal my suspension.

I didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted out of my major and that explains my poor performance, I am sorry about that and would like a second chance; maybe with a reduced course load.”


Then you are going to have to get creative and explain how you will change what you did to improve your performance. You didn’t include enough information for me to do any more than I already have.

Here are a few hints about college:
1. Expect to study at least 2 hours for every credit hour of courses you take.
2. High School doesn’t prepare anyone for college, unless you take on a lot of advanced courses. It is a big shock going from a system that requires people to graduate, to a system where the graduates have to meet real world standards and the school actually takes pride in its failure rate; making a degree from there more valuable.
3. They never told you in high school what you where studying and why you needed it. For example you can’t enter a technical, construction or engineering program without taking calculus, some computer science, and physics. The first and the second involve a lot of math. A liberal arts program is going to concentrate more on English and History.
4. Engineers will also have to take Chemistry.
5. Many Universities use specific courses to flunk out students. These “killer” courses at my university were Calculus, and Chemistry. I went to a mostly engineering school so those two course were core to everyone’s curriculum and designed to be tough on purpose to make them a way to weed out sub-performing students. How many of those courses did you sign up for? Ask some upper classmen about what the hardest courses are.
6. You are going to have to come up with a future program. Are you going to change majors, then to what and why? You are going to have to explain what you are looking for from college and your degree program. For example I wanted to be an architect, and didn’t realize that a degree from the university I went too would be useless in that field, I would have to have at least a master’s degree. What my real goal was to pick a major where I could do technical drawings. If I had gone for a technical engineering degree then I wouldn’t have been an architect, but I could have drawn things for engineers.
7. I was locked into my major and my degree plan because they wouldn’t let me change majors until I improved my performance. I had to prove that I could do well in this college before another college, at the same university, would accept me. I couldn’t even change my degree plan in the same college. You might meet similar resistance.
8. High school is designed to get people to pass, not prepare them for life. College and Universities are designed to get people ready for the real world of business, engineering… There is a large gap between high school and college and few high school students come into college knowing that.
9. You might want to retreat to a Junior College and take some courses there. You can do better at a Junior College (they aren’t trying to flunk you out; just to teach you), a lot of Universities accept Junior College courses, but they come in as a “C” so they don’t change your grade point average at the University. However, you can get past the core courses and the killer courses in a Junior College to reach the higher courses in your major. Also if you retreat to a Junior College and perform much better then you will have shown the University that you can do well in a college environment.
10. Look at how long you will need to take to graduate and add a semester or even a year to the plan. My degree plan and most others wanted people to take an 18 credit hour course load with at least two labs per semester. For me that was unrealistic, I took more time to study so I did much better (the difference between Cs and Ds to Bs and As) with a 15 hour course load. That was like taking only one less class per year and it would have still been an acceptable rate to the University. Few people are smart enough to graduate in just 4 years in a US four year school; at least few US citizens our education system is woefully inadequate compared to the rest of the world.

Answer 2

You should know that if you plagiarize in college at the very least you will fail the class and can possibly be kicked out.