We Sincerely Regret To Inform You

That Your Graduation Has Been Canceled. Ever heard of it? It happens more than you think. While I was a counselor I can’t tell you the number or times I came in to my office to find a frantic student waiting with an “emergency”. I really can’t tell you how often that emergency was, “I just got this notice, my graduation has been canceled. “ After a while I got used to it. This is how this often happens. Students, especially, it seems, transfer students, often assume that all requirements are eventually graduation requirements. In other words if they were admitted to the school or admitted to a program then all of those units automatically counted toward their graduation. They often don’t. I regularly accompanied a frantic student down to the graduate evaluation office. There we would go over exactly why some of the courses they had transferred to our school may have counted for admission but did not count for graduation. So, heed this: Do not expect that every course you’ve ever taken anywhere, even at your current school, will count toward your eventual graduation. It never quite seems to work that way. Solution? Sometime early in the term in which you intend to graduate take yourself to the graduation evaluation office. Spend some time with a worker, usually they are called evaluators, going over your transcripts including your schedule this term. Make sure you have a reasonable chance of graduating and eliminate nasty surprises later.