Anonymous
Post 09/12/2018 03:59     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So my D graduated from a very good top 25 school in May (or so we thought). She was doing a internship abroad right after graduation for 2 months got a job moved out and has been working. The other day she asked if I framed her diploma, I casually said no I don; have it, I thought you did. So she called the school to find out where it was sent.

On top of this her email for the school was no longer working. After leaving several messages 2 days in a. row, finally gets a call back that she got a D in one of her classes and it was not able to go towards her required credits!!!! She of course flips out, never knowing she got the D, and shocked that she technically did not graduate though she walked and we attended the ceremony. We are both shellshocked and then to boot the advisor told her because of that class she has to take it there not elsewhere to get her diploma! You can imagine how livd we are.

The school clearly dropped the ball here, this is the very first any of us have heard about it, if I didn't know better I would swear we are being punched. So she wrote a long email to this person who is seeing if she can get permission for her to take the class locally as she now has a full time job. We just cannot get over this.

We are not telling my H as he is recovering from a major surgery and I cannot let him get upset. The advisor in so many words admitted to my D they dropped the ball and were at fault. What would you do? I could really use some sage advice here.


How is a "D" in a class treated like an "F"? When I went to school a "D" still got you pass the class, just lowered your GPA. If they think she failed the class give her the "F". But if she got a "D", she deserves her diploma.


Answered about 10 times above. You will get credit for a course in your major with a D.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 12:55     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Anonymous wrote:How is a "D" in a class treated like an "F"? When I went to school a "D" still got you pass the class, just lowered your GPA. If they think she failed the class give her the "F". But if she got a "D", she deserves her diploma.


There are many colleges and universities where a D is passing for credit, but will not count towards credits required within your major. If you get a D in a class counted as an elective, it counts towards graduation, but you could not count it towards your major.

So, when I went to school in Electrical Engineering, I was required to have something like 24 credits in the EE department, 24 credits of engineering, 24 credits of math, 24 credits of sciences and 128 total credits. So, if I had a course that was included in that leftover general 32 credits, a D would count. If it was in any of the other areas, it would not count.

I graduated 30 years ago, so this can't be a foreign concept to people.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 12:08     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've even seen people hang their graduation pictures on the wall - can you believe it?


Aw, I have a college graduation picture framed on a shelf in my living room.

It it me and my parents.

I look so young (25 years ago!) and my parents look so proud.

My mom passed away 13 years ago, and my dad dumped the family for a new family. I keep that picture out, not because of graduation but because of happier times with my parents.

Never mock people for the pictures they choose to display.

They might mean more than the obvious.


I wouldn't mock anyone for displaying their graduation photo. I think it's great that you display yours. It was an accomplishment at the time and it brings back memories of happier times with your parents now. Of course you should display it.

My comment was directed at the individual who was saying how stupid it is for people to hang their college diplomas on the wall. I don't think it's stupid to display an accomplishment like that at all. And why would you buy graduation pictures if you didn't intend to look at them? Of course it's fine to display them.

The people who think that the hanging a diploma on the wall is stupid are the same people who display their participation sports trophies.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 11:50     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Because the d was in her major. There are usually additional requirements/standards for courses in the major - the presumed specialty.

Although it is also possible the daughter is stretching the truth about a few things
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 11:43     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Anonymous wrote:So my D graduated from a very good top 25 school in May (or so we thought). She was doing a internship abroad right after graduation for 2 months got a job moved out and has been working. The other day she asked if I framed her diploma, I casually said no I don; have it, I thought you did. So she called the school to find out where it was sent.

On top of this her email for the school was no longer working. After leaving several messages 2 days in a. row, finally gets a call back that she got a D in one of her classes and it was not able to go towards her required credits!!!! She of course flips out, never knowing she got the D, and shocked that she technically did not graduate though she walked and we attended the ceremony. We are both shellshocked and then to boot the advisor told her because of that class she has to take it there not elsewhere to get her diploma! You can imagine how livd we are.

The school clearly dropped the ball here, this is the very first any of us have heard about it, if I didn't know better I would swear we are being punched. So she wrote a long email to this person who is seeing if she can get permission for her to take the class locally as she now has a full time job. We just cannot get over this.

We are not telling my H as he is recovering from a major surgery and I cannot let him get upset. The advisor in so many words admitted to my D they dropped the ball and were at fault. What would you do? I could really use some sage advice here.


How is a "D" in a class treated like an "F"? When I went to school a "D" still got you pass the class, just lowered your GPA. If they think she failed the class give her the "F". But if she got a "D", she deserves her diploma.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 11:25     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've even seen people hang their graduation pictures on the wall - can you believe it?


You mean middle school graduation?


Actually, I've seen parents hang pictures of their kids, including their middle school kids, on the wall.

But I am specifically talking about graduation pictures where a graduate is awarded a diploma. I have actually seen college graduates hang their college graduation pictures on the wall. Everyone knows that the diploma is supposed to go up in the closet and the graduation pictures go in a desk drawer....never to be seen again until their household belongings are auctioned off 60 years later at their estate sale....and a grandchild says "Wow! I didn't know that Granny went to Harvard did you Mommy?"


True! And I think that the pictures of the Graduates receiving the diploma at Graduation are displayed are due to the endless marketing of the incredibly overpriced photos that the photography company takes at the ceremony of every graduate. This is what happened at DS’s FCPS Graduation. I’m thinking if someone purchased that photo they are displaying it because it cost so much that they say we should do something with this other than stick it on a drawer.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 10:50     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Anonymous wrote:I've even seen people hang their graduation pictures on the wall - can you believe it?


Aw, I have a college graduation picture framed on a shelf in my living room.

It it me and my parents.

I look so young (25 years ago!) and my parents look so proud.

My mom passed away 13 years ago, and my dad dumped the family for a new family. I keep that picture out, not because of graduation but because of happier times with my parents.

Never mock people for the pictures they choose to display.

They might mean more than the obvious.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 10:32     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Dave Bing, a former NBA player who went to Syracuse was running for mayor of Detroit and lying about his degree. He was caught. But the college just made him write some essay to “earn” his missing credits.

He ended up winning the election! This was 10 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/us/12detroit.html
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 08:20     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Wow, I can't imagine these people lying about their college degrees for years and years. That sounds so stressful.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2018 08:18     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Is she attractive?
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2018 19:05     Subject: About to blow my top with my D's university.....
Nope, nice try. She would have gotten counseling and graduate clearance notices from the advising office, department and college. Zero chance she didn’t receive some warnings.