There will be a point I stop helping, I’m guessing 5 years is my limit. I discussed it with him generally but didn’t give him a hard deadline. Partly because I want him focused on getting himself where he needs to be, not just doing whatever is quickest and cheapest. He is my kid who really doesn’t like school, so I’m not worried any him trying to be a permanent student.
@doschicos is correct about the general requirements. He has pretty much ALL of them done, but at least most of his classes will still count for something. He went from Agribusiness to Ag communications to agricultural education. So besides the normal gen eds he also had a decent number of Ag classes that all 3 majors require. Which is definitely helpful.
One thing that could hold him up is the transfer policy on a couple of his ag classes. For the AG communications major he just needed a certain # of credit hours in any ag class. For the education major he needs specific classes. So he needs the department to accept his classes from the other school. Otherwise he has a couple he will retake basically the same class. On one of them the hold up is the old school also had a lab as part of the class. So they currently are saying he has to retake the class without the lab because that makes it not exactly the same. His advisor was hopeful that he could get a waiver but not certain. If he can’t, definitely will need the extra half year.
Mostly I’m happy he isn’t running into prerequisite problems. He would have added an extra year if the advisor didn’t get him into the full class, because he needs it for the upper level classes and it is only offered in the spring.