Options if missed application and registration deadlines?

Retire3
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:43:09 +0000

Thanks everyone. Yes, he will call. He has done everything from the original application through meeting with advisors. I haven’t done any of it for him other than help him think through options.

Again–long story on why he is where he is now some which is his fault and some not. He has a degree in Aerospace Rngineering with a 3.1 gpa which is not great but still above the 3.0 cutoff that many Engineering companies set. He never managed to get himself an internship–should have tried harder and is paying a price for that now. He also has chronic health issues which are not his fault–hospitalized 4x his last semester, pumped full of steroids in order to get through graduation, and then went right into the hospital after graduation for major surgery. He’s been working part time while looking for a job. He did seem to have interest from one company but they pulled back and said they have to wait until Jan to hire. They said they’d contact himto see if he’s interested and available then, but he needs a “Plan B” in case that doesn’t materialize. Adding a Computer Science degree–or at least some computer science classes–gives him a way to get a bit of a do-over and those are skills he can use if he does get an AE job.

But again, yes, he’s doing it.

I think he’s going to try the non-matriculating option and see if he can get useful comp sci courses. He has the basics already, so prob not anything useful at a community college.