GlassCleaner

Keeping my long saga short,

I am a freshman at a large state school majoring in business.

I thought college was going to be a blast yet it is the worst nightmare ever.

At the beginning of the school year, I had Hepatitis B, then somehow I fell into a deep depression and showed forms of bi-polar and schizophrenia + maniac syndrome. Then my grandfather died, striked me hard since we were particularly close.

So first semester I had a 2.666 after a long struggle and a lot of self-forcing, however as my condition worsened, I am on the edge of barely a 2 this semester.

Under my school's policy, you can withdraw you grades in a semester if you faced certain "medical, physiological, OR family" hardships, I want to do that, and my counselors and doctors have all recommended that.

Then I need my dean's approval.


The guy will NOT approve it since he think I am some kind of overachiever who want to abuse the system in someway to get a better GPA. His argument is that I got 2 B-s the first semester despite an overall 2.6 and those grades were "good" and basically, he doesn't want to let me withdraw grades. At the very best, he is only allowing me to withdraw the current semester grades but after at least 1 year.


So I am really sure what to do, I met every single requirement in the student handbook for withdrawals and there is no stipulation about what grades can and can't withdraw.

Any ideas? Help? I just want an equal start as everyone else, free of hepatitis and other messes.

apumic

File a grievance. Check your school's grievance policy. It's really all you can do -- especially if it's a dean you're having the problem with! Collect all the support from the relevant professors you can, get them to right letters and take it up with the grievances committee. Ultimately, though, if you're fighting an administrator and he refuses to back down, there's not a whole you can do. Best of luck!

Caillebotte

If possible, appeal to the provost or vice-president.