Course Rollover

[Hwt673]

Hi -

- What is the average number of courses people take in an 8 week session?

- What happens if I don’t complete a course within the 8 week session?

[rvm]

I applied to UMPI yesterday.  I'm eagerly awaiting the replies to your post.

[Hwt673]

I’m guessing you can control the pace of course completion hence the name YourPace. Although, I wanted to see what others had to say.

[rachel83az]

6-8 per session seems to be a reasonable average, though some students have been able to complete 10+ classes in a single session.

Classes that are started but not completed by the deadline will get an F. Students may re-take the failed class during the next session, but the failure will remain on your transcript. Assuming you are able to successfully complete the class during the second session, UMPI will only use the successful grade when calculating GPA. Other grad schools may include the failure when calculating GPA for admissions purposes. Avoid this situation not requesting additional classes during a session if you're unsure about being able to complete them by the deadline.

For continued attendance, UMPI only requires students to complete 2 classes per session. Only doing the bare minimum is not very wallet-friendly, but it's something to keep in mind if it looks like your studies will be interrupted by RL. It's better to complete the minimum successfully than it is to bite off too much and wind up with failed classes.

[ss20ts]

Hi -

- What is the average number of courses people take in an 8 week session?

- What happens if I don’t complete a course within the 8 week session?

According to UMPI, the average number of courses completed in a session is 3-4. There are many people on here who have completed more than 4 courses in a session.

If you are registered for a course and do not withdrawal prior to the withdrawal date and do not complete the coursework, you will receive an F for the course. Courses do not rollover. You will be able to retake the course, but the F will remain on your transcripts. Once you repeat the course and finish it, the new grade will be included in your GPA and not the F. You can't add courses past 10 days left in the session without special permission. I haven't seen anyone add a course after that last 10 days.

[bjcheung77]

Generally, I would recommend trying to do 4-5 per session, you will need at least 10 courses to complete 30 credits. As the name indicates, Your Pace, you do it at a suitable pace for yourself, someone may blast through the entire 10 courses in just 1 session as they have no commitments, plenty of time, we don't know your schedule so, we can only provide a guideline.

[Tswede]

Hi -

- What is the average number of courses people take in an 8 week session?

- What happens if I don’t complete a course within the 8 week session?

I completed 4 in the last session.  I hoped to do 6 but a cancer scare for me (benign) and then two weeks later my wife needing surgery slowed me down.  Sometimes life gets in the way.  I thought about withdrawing but instead just took the time I needed and got back to it when it was possible.

Once I completed the first two classes so I would at least meet expectations (which took me 4-5 weeks with the medical stuff), I felt confident I could add one and then another, but didn't want to risk failing one by not completing on time so I did not add any towards the end.  I didn't have any work to do in the last week but at least I got them done.  It turned out to be not the greatest session to start UMPI but I did get it done.  Maybe I will get the last 6 done in the next session.  Maybe not.  You never know what life will bring, but one foot in front of the other will get there finally.