<p>Compared to undergrad-lvl courses?</p>
<p>Sometimes it seems while undergrad-lvl courses have "no late work" policies that are strictly enforced, grad-lvl courses seem to be more lenient on that. Is that generally true?</p>
<p>It depends on the professor and your reason for the assignments being late. I have a number of friends that are required to travel for beam time. When they’re at the beamsource they have it for 24 hours, so they need to stay awake running samples the whole time. Doesn’t leave a whole lot of time to do that homework that’s due while they’re away. They tend to get extensions even in classes with the no extension policy, but if there’s no good reason like that I doubt it’ll be lifted.</p>
<p>(The last grad course I TAed had a “no late homework” policy from the professor, and they were supposed to be due by 5 PM at my office door on Friday. We wouldn’t cover half the topics on the homework until Thursday afternoon, so I’d give an extension every week until Monday afternoon. Prof didn’t care since I’d still have everything graded by the time the next assignment was due.)</p>
<p>In the humanities, it’s generally quite easy to get a grade of “incomplete” for a class when you are a graduate student, and turn in your research paper the following semester.</p>
<p>(There is one university in the east with a graduate student bar called “The Inn Complete.”)</p>
<p>However, don’t expect late work to be returned with comments with any degree of speed. If at all.</p>
<p>it depends on the professor. some are quite lenient (and they’re usually the profs who aren’t quite interested in the seminar they’re running), some are lenient only after the student has spent about half of the semester proving him or herself academically, and others simply will not budge.</p>
<p>i have a seminar on wednesday night and, out of 14 weeks, must write papers for any 6 of those weeks. although the seminar’s wednesday night, the paper is due tuesday at 11 pm. at least three times already, i’ve started the paper, 11 pm has come and gone and i haven’t been able to submit it. i was pretty close to finishing once too.</p>
<p>i find that especially in classes where there are no “hard” deadlines (i.e. write one paper each month or six papers at any time this semester), they don’t accept late work. you should be able to plan ahead (in theory) and make the workload fit with the rest of your schedule.</p>
<p>Also mind the rules of grade submission and how the registrar processes grades. A LOT of times, you cannot change the transcript. Once the I is there, it’s there forever. I had an extension last semester and had to promise that I would turn in the paper at least 24 hours before the 72 hour period after the last day of exams was up in order to avoid getting a I (as I was applying for PhD programs at the time).</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone! :)</p>
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<p>Yeah, I had a couple of weeks of beamtime and my professors were all understanding and I just made up the work after I got back. There is pretty much no way to get work done while you’re traveling.</p>
<p>Most of my professors have a “no late homework” policy, with exceptions made only for doctor’s-note or travel. Some won’t even allow that - they automatically discard the lowest few assignments, and expect that to cover any absences.</p>
<p>its up to the prof.</p>
<p>READ YOUR SYLLABUS!!!</p>