UPDATE #2: Jacob just received a pre-match offer from Texas Tech Medical School!!!!!! LETSSSSSSSS FUGGGGGINNNN GOOOOOOOOOOOOI!!!!!! 10/15/2022
UPDATE: Jacob skipped the class, took the MCAT, and nailed it. 509 on his first attempt, 75th percentile nationwide, and the average score of med school applicants who are admitted. BOOM!!! 🥲
My son is set to graduate from Tech in spring ‘23. He’s a kinesiology pre-med major, currently maintaining a 3.96+ GPA.
He signed up for next week’s MCAT months ago. He’s been studying his ass off, and appears to be well-prepared to kill it on his first attempt.
Due to the vagaries of filling out an upper class schedule, he wound up in a Thursday lab for one of his kinesiology courses. Next Thursday is the day of the MCAT— 8 hours long.
When he saw there would be a conflict, he approached his professor. He didn’t ask to skip the class— he simply requested the professor’s permission to attend a different lab session next week.
The professor told him he’d have to choose— attend his regularly scheduled lab that day, or accept an unexcused absence and a 0 for that day. A 0 will guarantee that he can’t make an A in that lab for the semester.
This is bullshit. What recourse does Jacob have?
UPDATE: Jacob skipped the class, took the MCAT, and nailed it. 509 on his first attempt, 75th percentile nationwide, and the average score of med school applicants who are admitted. BOOM!!! 🥲
My son is set to graduate from Tech in spring ‘23. He’s a kinesiology pre-med major, currently maintaining a 3.96+ GPA.
He signed up for next week’s MCAT months ago. He’s been studying his ass off, and appears to be well-prepared to kill it on his first attempt.
Due to the vagaries of filling out an upper class schedule, he wound up in a Thursday lab for one of his kinesiology courses. Next Thursday is the day of the MCAT— 8 hours long.
When he saw there would be a conflict, he approached his professor. He didn’t ask to skip the class— he simply requested the professor’s permission to attend a different lab session next week.
The professor told him he’d have to choose— attend his regularly scheduled lab that day, or accept an unexcused absence and a 0 for that day. A 0 will guarantee that he can’t make an A in that lab for the semester.
This is bullshit. What recourse does Jacob have?
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