r/CUNY

Professor accused me of cheating, but doesn't have definitive proof. Was told to leave the class and that I was going to receive a zero for the entire course. This was the third exam and the final is today. I checked recently and he updated my grades for the other assignments I handed in but I received a zero for the third exam. So it seems like I can still take the final but my grade for the third exam is zero. Regardless, I do not plan on taking the final even if I am able to.

I've spoken to an advisor. The best option I found was to do a late withdrawal (would like more info on how to), but I don't think I can do it without my professors approval. I haven't contacted him since but am planning to send him an email today asking if he would allow it. If he doesn't allow it but I don't show up then my grade is kinda fucked anyway. Are there any other options I have?

I don’t know maybe I got bad luck this semester. Last semester I had a GPA of 3.6 this semester have 2 Fs it’s crazy that there is a strong possibility my dreams from BMCC to NYU is over. I was getting scholarship offers and awards and all the sudden things just hit the rock pitch. Nonetheless I’m a freshman but damn I don’t know what to do. I heard NYU and other prestigious universities like Columbia still accepts students below the 3.5 gpa mark but damn what do I do? I want to go to gallatin so I can study business and tech and possibly make a lot of money. Most cuny students don’t make as much money as these top tier college graduates. My cousin just graduated from UC Berkeley and she’s making 110k entry level at just 22 years old just by studying in tech industries.

I’m losing my mind right now, every exam I’ve took this semester in College Alge & Tri has been with a calculator and so has every test since 6-7th grade has been with a calculator and now last minute I’m finding out … no calculator for the finals .. no reference sheets … I’ve worked hard all semester even got an 100 on the last exam, but I don’t know I just don’t think that’s fair,
IS THAT COMMON YAH?
It’s my first semester.
This math is easy to me .. but memorizing all the information & no calculator is like .. is that even humanly possible? 😂

hi I’m a first year student and i do not see myself passing my human anatomy class, i have passed all my other classes and withdrew from one with a W grade. What will be the consequences? will i be put on academic probation? or will my fasfa get taken away?? plz lmk so i can quit worrying and just know my fate

I did really bad in high school and I ended off for like a 2.7 GPA. I’m currently attending a private college and I’m looking to transfer. I have a 2.7 GPA again however I do have two letters of recommendation. Here’s the programs I want to get into:

comp sci - hunter, baurch, and john jay

game design - ccny

What are my chances.

Or does that cancel my application at bmcc?

i love learning so much. even if its classes not related to my major i enjoy a lot. the thing is im a terrible student. i usually submit assignments late and my attendance fluctuates, and I’ve even failed a few classes. im not lazy, its just hard to get myself started and be consistent. i have a 3.0 so im not doing TERRIBLY, but i know i can be better. i do have bipolar 2 but its really well managed so idek if thats a factor. does anyone else experience this?

Hello everybody i was wondering if anybody had one extra graduation ticket for the ceremony as my friends who are graduating already have family members going and I was told that graduating students were able to ask for extra tickets so if anybody has one could I get it please.

I’m confused, does career launch accept students with some sort of experience? I just had an interview with someone who partnered with career launch, and they’re looking for someone who already has clinical experience…😭 I don’t have that, which is why I even applied to career launch. It really sucks that even for this program you need some sort of experience

I’m a masters student at Hunter and need advice. I failed Research I and was forced to withdraw from Research II as a result, losing tuition money and delaying my graduation. I recently found out another student who also failed Research I was not forced to withdraw from Research II and is graduating this fall — the difference appears to be how Student Services handled our cases.

I’m hoping to escalate internally. I’m looking for:

1.	A tuition refund for the course I was forced to drop

2.	A path to finish and graduate in the fall. 

BUT I don’t want to make enemies. I need people to work with me.

Has anyone dealt with disparate treatment in academic decisions at CUNY or another school? What worked — formal complaints, legal pressure, going to the Dean?

Hello CUNY people,

I applied to Hunter College for their pre-nursing/nursing program and did not think I would get in, but I did. I would have been a 1st year pre-nursing student but I already enrolled at another nursing school so I won't be attending, but am so proud of myself for being accepted. For starters: I have a 3.3 uw gpa at the high school I'm at, and had very bad science class grades (Honors Chem, Bio ...) so I thought I would automatically get rejected but I defied all odd and was accepted. So reminder, never give up, a low gpa/stats will never harm your chances at schools as competitive as Hunter. Also, I really hope they send me an acceptance package as I would like to see my real acceptance letter plus the goodies it might come with.

I am transferring into hunter bc it's cheaper for me, anyways this whole time while I was at Laguardia I made sure to keep track of courses that would transfer over to a 4 year. Now they telling me they won't apply to my major and that I would have to start over again or take placement exams. I was also told this is an issue that CUNY is trying to fix but why is this an issue to begin with?

Hey so i take college now classes and i was attending my college that i take the class on saturdays and i recall last saturday when i scanned in, security called me and said to log in with the new email crap otherwise there might issues later in the future. Im confused what is the process my teacher sent an announcement saying to follow the format and idk what the 2 numbers after the last name along with what password do we put if its a new email im mad confused anyone can help a fellow student out.

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Honestly, the CUNY Career Launch Healthcare Hub process has been extremely disappointing and misleading.

From the beginning, they made it sound like there were going to be 500+ internships and tons of opportunities available for students. They had us ranking 10 internships each and made it seem like there would be plenty of options and interviews for everyone.

But when the actual internship applications opened, there were only around 164 internships available TOTAL. And those 164 included ALL boroughs — Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island — and even some locations farther out. So realistically, the options become WAY smaller depending on where you live and what you can actually commute to.

A lot of us are students who can’t travel 2+ hours just for a 19-hour internship. So once you remove internships that are too far, unrelated to your major, or already full, your choices narrow down FAST.

What made it worse is that students literally asked if more internships were going to be uploaded later because the number felt extremely low compared to the amount of students in the Healthcare Hub. We were told NO — the 164 was the final number.

Mind you, there are HUNDREDS of students in the program competing for these placements.

Then when interview scheduling opens, it honestly feels like the Hunger Games. You have to rush and pray interview slots don’t disappear immediately. Some internships filled up almost instantly. Some students were barely able to schedule anything at all.

And another thing that made absolutely no sense was the email saying students could only sign up for a MAXIMUM OF 2 interviews because of “limited interview slots.” TWO interviews. Meanwhile they had us rank internships from 1 through 10 beforehand. So what was even the point of making students rank 10 internships if we were later going to be told we could only apply to two interviews at first and then “wait to see if more become available”?

That right there already shows there weren’t enough interview opportunities for the amount of students in the program.

And another crazy part is that some organizations don’t even use the CareerEco scheduling system. They give students a separate list of organizations that may contact you on their own outside of the platform. So basically, if they never reach out to you, then you don’t even get an opportunity to interview with them. And if you don’t hear from them by a certain date, that usually means they already moved on with another candidate.

But what’s even MORE confusing is that some internships that students applied to on InPlace aren’t even showing up on CareerEco at all, and they’re not even included on the separate list of organizations that are supposedly reaching out independently either. So students are left confused wondering what’s even happening with certain internships they applied for because there’s literally zero information or updates about them.

I even saw students from other hubs complaining about the exact same thing.

And even if you DO manage to schedule an interview, that still doesn’t mean you’re getting the internship. You can literally see multiple interview time slots getting taken by other students at the same time, so obviously these organizations are interviewing multiple people for the same role. So students are basically fighting just for the CHANCE to compete for a spot that still isn’t guaranteed.

So students are basically left waiting and hoping organizations contact them while also fighting for the limited interview slots on CareerEco at the same time.

And then they tell students “everyone is guaranteed a placement,” but a lot of us are worried that means being thrown into random positions that don’t even relate to our major or career goals just to say we got “placed.”

The whole thing feels very unorganized and honestly misleading compared to how it was advertised in the beginning. If they only had a limited amount of REAL opportunities, they should have been transparent from the start instead of making it sound like there were endless healthcare internships available for everyone.

Genuinely don’t know what to do. Undergrad art major at BC. Broke my foot (metatarsal fracture) the first week of classes and went to the ER by Feb 2, wasn’t diagnosed or treated until going to a different dr on Feb 20th, over three weeks after it broke (and after the deadline to withdraw without it messing up my academic standing or financial aid, which I got back after working on my grades and appealing last semester).

Was prescribed pain killers on top of the 2000mg of ibuprofen I was taking daily. Still came to my classes walking on a broken foot w no cast or walking boot before getting diagnosed & also with the walking boot until the pain was unbearable. I have a 12hour day of classes + commute and my other class requires carrying 10lb bag with a drawing pad and art supplies so it was basically impossible lol.

If they had properly diagnosed and treated me at the ER when it was initially broken it wouldn’t have been so bad, but I wasn’t able to move my toes and it felt like I had nerve damage after a few weeks of walking on it.

I contacted the disability office- actually asked them how to get a medical withdrawal and was told they’d only ask the director about retroactive excused absences. Never got a follow up on if they did excuse my absences or any other accommodation. Just told me I can’t miss anymore classes. Literally acted like I was healed and offered no additional accommodations when I was still freshly injured and limping around with a walking boot. And obviously I wrote to my professors with medical documentation.

Spent $100s of my financial aid refund ubering to class while being unemployed because I couldn’t work during that time or handle the 1.5hr commute to campus with 3 transfers. Currently in physical therapy 2-3 times a week.

And there’s a massive non-accessible detour around that entire section of campus due to them starting construction mid-semester, so that tripled the amount of walking, pain, and time it took to get to my classes.

Anyway I got LITERALLY NOTTHHIINGFF. No excused absences from disability or remote learning or offers for an INC or any type of accommodation or support. Some professors didn’t respond to my email until weeks after, which is whatever, but still gave me attitude about the work I was or wasn’t able to submit during this semester.

One professor basically told every other student “you should keep taking art classes!” Except me lmaoo and was helpful to other students also printing their portfolio but was just rude asf to me so I had to remind her “yeah my foot was broken for 3 months??? And they gave me no accommodations. Like what are you expecting” So I’m not feeling confident about the grades I’ll receive. I think evals are closed now but definitely leaving a rating on her RMP lmao

Even my physical therapist was shocked that the school and professors just expected me to do anything let alone w no accomodations while I was at peak injury. She immediately printed and signed a paper with all my visits to show to whoever (let’s be honest there’s nobody at this school that can help) when I told her my situation last week.

Does anybody have advice for how to handle this.. should I reach out to the disability office again or a different department/office for something like this? I am going to do whatever I can and annoy whoever to appeal the grades if they come back bad because I truly feel like this was a breach of some kind of disability law/policy, given I couldn’t walk for 3 months and am being held to the exact same expectations as students that could. Lowkey had a meltdown and cried on the train and in PT today.

If I wasn’t injured I wouldn’t expect a drop of empathy for missing or doing poorly on assignments but I literally could not walk myself to the bathroom even while dosing myself with gabapentin for the entire month of March. Maybe I should’ve done more while being injured but my energy levels were halved, and I have no family or partner to help. I am just now able to walk and start working again without limping or pain, so I have the capacity now to actually advocate and try to get the support from the school and disability department I was supposed to receive early in the semester.

Any advice on what I should do would be appreciated.

title. i'm hoping to transfer out of hunter into a top 25 school. i didn't get my intended results after applying in high school, but i've secured internships that will really help my app stick out and solidify my narrative. the only thing i'm concerned about is rec letters.

has anyone had experience asking professors for rec letters to transfer out? if so, were they supportive? i hear that i shouldn't ask my macaulay professors because they can be pretty possessive about the program. i also know my sister struggled with vindictive professors at a private nyc college.

if there are any vindictive professors, who should i watch out for?

i just hope that my professors will understand that everyone has different priorities academically and that they will write a letter that truly represents me as a student. thank you for the read and wish me luck!!

I’m very nervous I got finals on Thursday anyone got any advice.

A fall only class that I NEED to graduate is taken. That’s it that’s the post.

I have Kei Kebreau for CS 235 in the summer, has anyone ever had him, I can’t find any reviews about him online.