Stanford does use the quarter system (10 week classes instead of 15), and it's notoriously asskicking for grad students who were on a semester system as undergrads.
Yep, I was pretty confused when I saw the quarters thingy on their website. Out here we have semesters. But then again my brother has "trimesters" at his college, making him sound perpetually pregnant so I refuse to be amazed now.
Ooh, thanks for the terminology. :D I will remember that. We just say it the Harry Potter way out here "first year" and "second year" and so on with a more complicated system for med students that goes like, "First year, second (I), Second (II), Third (I) and Third (II)". That, plus internship makes undergrad for med school 5.5 years long. So while all my friends from my class were in third year, I was still in my eighteen-month-long "second" year. And it'd be all "but WHY are you still in your second year?"
Stanford definitely uses quarters according to its website. Which I see, seems to be a bad, bad thing. Yeah, the Stanford website says they give admission deferrals in special cases so this should be a special case, right?
It's very unlikely he would get home assignments to make up work he missed. He would probably need to return to campus and retake the work he missed in a classroom setting.Ahhh, poor guy's gonna be stressed af
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If you're having Sam go back after all the years off with Dean, let me assure you it is possible! I completed my undergrad in 2004, and just started law school this past August. There are a number of older students in my class, as well as several who took a year or two off to teach or just figure themselves out. Sam will need to finish his undergrad, and then re-apply to Stanford's law school. He'd likely need to re-take his LSAT, too. Any major can go on to law school, but if Sam knew all along he wanted to be a criminal prosecutor, he probably would have gone the criminal justice route. My bachelor's degree was in English, fwiw. Many of my classmates were history or poli-sci majors, as well
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This fic is AU (no monsters, no dead mommy, but unfortunately a very dead Jess), so Sam's actually still 22/23 when he returns to Stanford. Although on the actual show I'd love to watch him complete his education despite how much he's been dumbed down recently
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Sam would probably just need to take the classes he missed, then, and get his Bachelor's so he could move on, once he's done mourning poor Jess. Criminal justice would probably be comfortable for him, depending on what backstory you're giving for their childhood, of course. Sam would probably love something like history, English, or philosophy, too. Some of his teachers may have given him incomplete marks instead of dropping him or failing him, if they were sympathetic to his bereavement, in which case it might just be a matter of taking his finals.
Thanks for the good wishes! Good luck with your schooling, as well!
Sam's not just mourning; he also gets physically injured from the fire in my canon (and badly injured) so I guess he will be excused. Mary's in the FBI in this one, John's a mechanic so I do see him taking criminal justice too since his mum's a law enforcement officer. But then his core character from the show tells me history or English. I just draw from chits about this I guess. :p
1. Will missing two quarters mean he'll have to make up for those two quarters after he finishes school?
He has not "finished" school, so there's not "making up those quarters after he finishes." At best the professors will let him complete his outstanding work from the term (they can give him an Incomplete and he'll have one year to finish the work, and then change his grade to the appropriate letter grade, or, if he doesn't finish the work, they'll change it to a No Credit/Not Complete, and he'll have to retake the class), and at worst he'll have to take a "Withdraw" and get a grade of "W" on his transcript, and have to retake the classes).
3. SLS says that they take in students based on LSATs and college applications (well, that's what it looks like) so will this leave affect his application to SLS?Let's add some fake years to this situation: He gets the worst-case, and has to take a Withdraw from his classes in Q1 (Fall 2015). He'll retake those classes in Q3 (Spring 2016). He
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4. What kind of assignments would he have for home? Are they essays (Sorry, uni works differently where I am from)? Are these essays grades As and Bs like in school?I don't entirely follow, but I'll take a guess. "Homework" for a senior for a typical class might range from writing short papers on reading to giving presentations in class, or writing fewer, longer papers on research you've done all semester. Stanford prides themselves on having small, discussion rich classes for undergraduates. With 10 week terms, they probably have 2 exams per class (midterm and final) and it's the discretion of the professor to assign essays or other work
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Anyway, the issue of deferred entry is moot, unless he'd submitted applications really early (October 2015).
Actually, on the show, on Halloween night he talks about having an interview at SLS in a couple of days. Now Stanford clearly states they have no interviews so that's a mistake obviously (the show writers are less obsessed than I am, apparently). So I'm confused. Does this mean he'd already submitted his application? When do college interviews generally happen?
Again, I'm sorry. We have no interviews in my country. They have a nation-wide exam in which you get a rank and you're allotted a college according to your rank. The better your rank, the more are your chances of getting what you want. We have more people than colleges here. Waaaaaaaay more people. Like, there's only a 44% chance I'll get a residency next year (it's 80% in America, apparently).
That said, it's not "bad" -- law schools (and nearly all graduate programs) often look favorably upon people who have some real life experience
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Stanford definitely uses quarters according to its website. Which I see, seems to be a bad, bad thing. Yeah, the Stanford website says they give admission deferrals in special cases so this should be a special case, right?
It's very unlikely he would get home assignments to make up work he missed. He would probably need to return to campus and retake the work he missed in a classroom setting.Ahhh, poor guy's gonna be stressed af ( ... )
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Thanks for the good wishes! Good luck with your schooling, as well!
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Thanks for the wishes :)
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1. Will missing two quarters mean he'll have to make up for those two quarters after he finishes school?
He has not "finished" school, so there's not "making up those quarters after he finishes." At best the professors will let him complete his outstanding work from the term (they can give him an Incomplete and he'll have one year to finish the work, and then change his grade to the appropriate letter grade, or, if he doesn't finish the work, they'll change it to a No Credit/Not Complete, and he'll have to retake the class), and at worst he'll have to take a "Withdraw" and get a grade of "W" on his transcript, and have to retake the classes).
3. SLS says that they take in students based on LSATs and college applications (well, that's what it looks like) so will this leave affect his application to SLS?Let's add some fake years to this situation: He gets the worst-case, and has to take a Withdraw from his classes in Q1 (Fall 2015). He'll retake those classes in Q3 (Spring 2016). He ( ... )
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4. What kind of assignments would he have for home? Are they essays (Sorry, uni works differently where I am from)? Are these essays grades As and Bs like in school?I don't entirely follow, but I'll take a guess. "Homework" for a senior for a typical class might range from writing short papers on reading to giving presentations in class, or writing fewer, longer papers on research you've done all semester. Stanford prides themselves on having small, discussion rich classes for undergraduates. With 10 week terms, they probably have 2 exams per class (midterm and final) and it's the discretion of the professor to assign essays or other work ( ... )
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Anyway, the issue of deferred entry is moot, unless he'd submitted applications really early (October 2015).
Actually, on the show, on Halloween night he talks about having an interview at SLS in a couple of days. Now Stanford clearly states they have no interviews so that's a mistake obviously (the show writers are less obsessed than I am, apparently). So I'm confused. Does this mean he'd already submitted his application? When do college interviews generally happen?
Again, I'm sorry. We have no interviews in my country. They have a nation-wide exam in which you get a rank and you're allotted a college according to your rank. The better your rank, the more are your chances of getting what you want. We have more people than colleges here. Waaaaaaaay more people. Like, there's only a 44% chance I'll get a residency next year (it's 80% in America, apparently).
That said, it's not "bad" -- law schools (and nearly all graduate programs) often look favorably upon people who have some real life experience ( ... )
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