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Ok so at UC Davis you are required to pass everything with at least a 2.0 GPA and you need to average 13 units per quarter so after 3 quarters you must complete a minimum of 39 units...pretty standard I would imagine for any school.
Basically in a nutshell, I did 12 units last fall because I actually fell for the advisor's advice that I should only take 12 units my first quarter (in retrospect it might have been a good thing since I changed majors and that 4th class probably wouldn't have counted) and then in my second quarter I took only 13 units because I was doing paramedic school at the same time and all 13 units were upper division and notoriously brutal classes. So after 2 quarters that puts me at 25 units.
I was putting so much hours into medic school that I decided ifI could withdraw from Davis for the spring quarter and not be placed on academic probation then I would do so since it did marginally affect my grades in the winter quarter and to meet satisfactory academic progress I would have had to do like 16 units and it would not have been worth it. I spoke both to the registrar and the college of letters and science that my econ degree is through and specifically clarified with them that I would not be placed on academic probation if I withdrew as I did not complete a full year at Davis so it would not be an issue since they calculate the minimum progress at the end of the spring quarter.
Well, I got an E-mail from the bastards yesterday saying that they're placing me on academic probation so apparently I was either lied to or both people I talked to happened to be incompetent. Obviously, I'm going to fight this, but what kind of fall out am I going to have from this in the future as far as med school apps go? I made Dean's list my first quarter, and I have an overall GPA of 3.8, so it's not like it's an indicator that I'm doing poorly scholastically but rather just an indicator that the school potentially screwed me over if they won't reverse it or take it off my record. I understand that even if it doesn't show up on my transcript, I'll have to report it on AMCAS, so even if it dissapears off my record once I complete 14 or more units next quarter (I have 16 units scheduled) then I have to report it anyway so I'm wondering how bad it'll hurt me.
Oh yeah, take home lesson from this: don't do paramedic school and university at the same time. 😛
Basically in a nutshell, I did 12 units last fall because I actually fell for the advisor's advice that I should only take 12 units my first quarter (in retrospect it might have been a good thing since I changed majors and that 4th class probably wouldn't have counted) and then in my second quarter I took only 13 units because I was doing paramedic school at the same time and all 13 units were upper division and notoriously brutal classes. So after 2 quarters that puts me at 25 units.
I was putting so much hours into medic school that I decided ifI could withdraw from Davis for the spring quarter and not be placed on academic probation then I would do so since it did marginally affect my grades in the winter quarter and to meet satisfactory academic progress I would have had to do like 16 units and it would not have been worth it. I spoke both to the registrar and the college of letters and science that my econ degree is through and specifically clarified with them that I would not be placed on academic probation if I withdrew as I did not complete a full year at Davis so it would not be an issue since they calculate the minimum progress at the end of the spring quarter.
Well, I got an E-mail from the bastards yesterday saying that they're placing me on academic probation so apparently I was either lied to or both people I talked to happened to be incompetent. Obviously, I'm going to fight this, but what kind of fall out am I going to have from this in the future as far as med school apps go? I made Dean's list my first quarter, and I have an overall GPA of 3.8, so it's not like it's an indicator that I'm doing poorly scholastically but rather just an indicator that the school potentially screwed me over if they won't reverse it or take it off my record. I understand that even if it doesn't show up on my transcript, I'll have to report it on AMCAS, so even if it dissapears off my record once I complete 14 or more units next quarter (I have 16 units scheduled) then I have to report it anyway so I'm wondering how bad it'll hurt me.
Oh yeah, take home lesson from this: don't do paramedic school and university at the same time. 😛
