<p>“Contrast that with a guy I know at Princeton who had issues of a personal psychological nature. In each case, the profs were willing to reschedule his exams, drop classes, give him Incomplete grades (so he could complete the work at a later date), and so forth.”</p>
<p>To return to my original post, I’m sure that this guy’s professors were notified of an unspecified health problem and were asked to give this student extra time to complete his work. There’s never a requirement to do so, however. (My daughter missed a test because she was taken by ambulance to the emergency room, and her prof still docked her make-up test by ten percent.) </p>
<p>Unlike high school, colleges rarely have a policy that cover all professors and classes. Some required classes have policies, and some individual profs do.</p>