Gripe about emailing TESU's Academic Advising dept.

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I had a similar thing happen recently, although a different outcome.

I took and passed a TECEP, and they put it in my GenEd area. Then, they took one of my other courses out, and put it down in "Other Courses." The problem was, that course was needed in the GenEd area to have the correct number of credits up there. With that course in there, and the 2 required courses I still need, it would put me at 61cr. Taking it out would put me at 58cr. So I sent an email to advising and they responded immediately saying that I didn't need that course up there, that with my 2 required courses, it would put me at enough credits in GenEd.

I replied to that email saying that it was incorrect, and that it would only put me at 58cr. The same advisor responded quickly that she had fixed it - that the 2cr Ethics course with the waiver threw off the automatic function they used (I now needed 19cr in GenEd Electives instead of the 18).

While I understood the problem, and appreciated getting it fixed quickly, it was like they didn't even look at the problem the first time around. They didn't spend even 10 seconds adding up the credits, looking at the waiver, etc.

Not sure why I was able to respond to the email rather than create a new email - maybe because she didn't mark it as closed or something? Anyway, you're right in that they aren't careful with their reading of the emails. It can be frustrating.