<p>My adviser out of nowhere drops me from a class and says I need a C or better in one of my pre-reqs and it said so on the syllabus of that class, but I checked the syllabus and it doesn't say it. It has already been a week and then this happened, and there's room in my class and I already have a lab group. I'm doomed as I'll only be taking like 6 credits. </p>
<p>Please help! I've already emailed my adviser and other people in the department</p>
<p>Can you provide evidence to your adviser that you meet the prerequisites/there are no prerequisites or ask them to provide proof that you do not meet the prerequisites?</p>
<p>Check the syllabi for the prereqs, the course you were dropped from, and read all you can on the department and school websites; they can hide requirements pretty well sometimes. Hopefully you’ll hear back from those you emailed soon!</p>
<p>I checked the syllabus for both classes word by word. The math department says on the course outline that I need a C or better to move on however, not the department I’m in (it’s same school website). It was my only D and I busted my ass just to get it due to a no partial credit rule being initiated for the first time. </p>
<p>The class I want to take is technically full but I registered before it was full, and there are still 8 or more empty seats in lecture, and I am in a lab group already. I don’t want to start an argument with them but I feel like my adviser is playing games with me. It seems fishy that I get dropped 7 full days after classes begin. They seem want me to take the class over, although my adviser is the only one e-mailing me. However, the professor also has never heard of this requirement. I would do practically anything to just get back so I am on track with my credits, please help on this.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s anything that can be done. If there’s still a seat open for you to reregister in I’d do that and hope the advisor doesn’t notice. Other than that, if the advisor is set on having you not in the class there’s not much you can do about it. It’d be good if you mention the university as a warning for other students that advisors can sabotage students there but that won’t really help you any. Sorry.</p>
<p>Can you crash classes at your university with instructor approval??? I would suggest you keep attending the class and let your lab mates know what the situation is. Keep up with the syllabus assignments and do well, and go “over the advisor” to the registrar’s office and make an appointment to see someone there; take the catalog with you.</p>
<p>Re: being “fishy.” That’s probably just how your school handles missing prerequisites. It would be better if it blocked you from the get-go, but that’s how they work sometimes.</p>
<p>Which classes are these anyways, the prerequisite and the one you’re trying to get into? Myself, I wouldn’t even think of trying to do a follow-up class to one I’d worked extremely hard on, only to get a D – I’d be setting myself up for failure. Are they relatively unrelated to one another? Can you not take a different course in its place?</p>