r/SipsTea • u/Bigb5wm • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! College scammed them

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u/kkkilla 1d ago

I had such high test scores that I actually tested out of needing to take college level English classes. When I go to apply to graduate I was told that I didn’t have enough credits and I explained that’s because I didn’t need to take English. I was then informed you still need a certain amount of credits to graduate so while I didn’t need to take English I needed to take something. I was forced to take a bowling class over the weekends to make up the credits in time in order to graduate. You pay for each credit a class is worth so I felt like that was such a waste of money.

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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ 1d ago

The original reasoning was because they want to think they are giving you a more well rounded education or giving you other life experiences as to not leave you with such a narrow scope of education. It’s a nice idea if it weren’t for the crippling cost of school and inability to guarantee that your degree will land you a job that will pay off your student loans in addition to costs of living.

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u/gmsteel 1d ago

Ironically this is the opposite of my education from Scotland, a very focussed course with most of the classes being mandatory and not chosen by me (even the elective classes were from a prescribed list that related directly to the course), but it was free.

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 1d ago

This was engineering education in the US. We had a total of two electives. One social science elective and one open. Government, history, and English are required. Other than that the only options we had were for choosing our subspecialty.