u/Legitimate-Toe-5365

Has anyone else gotten an email from an alumni enrollment coach that says all these benefits with links?

I found it odd because I'm near graduation but have one semester left, summer.

It also said they're waiving graduate app fees.

The email looked correct. No security warning from Gmail. Looked up the person's name and it matches ASU staff directory. Email matched. No weird typos I noticed anywhere.

After responding asking for more information and stating I was in the middle of my grad app, now, just after this, I can't log into my graduate application I had started (well before I got this email, and it worked the other day right after I got the email, not working today).

To be clear, I did not click any links from the email. I emailed the alumni association and they said they do not do fee waivers and have no clue and to ask admissions, I emailed them but I dont think I got a reply yet.

Is this illegitimate, or is the technical issue just a coincidence??

*Edit: Where are the assumptions I'm failing math from? I was using 117 as an example. I'm not failing math.

I think we can agree the system is just antithetical to learning. I have no idea how it is for in person students. I hear it's similar though. Even if you're good at math, it's pretty bad. For every student that said its okay or easy, there's a dozen more talking about how it sucked or they failed. I think it's obvious there's some issues.

Apparently the math dept has gotten complaints about it for years and won't budge to work on anything. This is based on some forums I've read recently. Anyone know more about that?

From my own experience, I once took a non math class that had a course wide discussion board. I'm talking hundreds of students in the same class were all able to post to the same forum. There were some major issues in the class, students spoke out, supposedly they worked on it. I heard it was still not great after, but maybe better than before.

Not all classes have something like this. And most students don't seem very active on discussion boards.

I just think really the reportedly high failure rate for math 117 speaks for itself. It's not accessible. It doesn't "teach". It leaves students to fend for themselves. If you sneeze you basically drop a grade level. It's got to be the worst grading setup in any college class I've ever taken.

I get math classes are some weird "weed out" method for colleges but isn't there a line to be drawn? How do classes maintain accreditation with a high failure rate?

And come on, *no* C session options for online students?

Any ideas on how we could get something going? What has worked in the past?

What's your worst experience in a math class at ASU, what happened, was it resolved, if so, how?