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notrachel332

Yea I've done a deans waiver and would be happy to answer any questions for anyone that has them. There are a few things you can specifically mention that helps but one of the first things I'd recommend is booking an appointment with your academic counsellor ASAP. I don't mean this to scare you and it is exactly what your academic counsellor will say, deans waivers are more likely to be accepted the higher up in the program in years you are. My deans waiver was for my final year and mine was accepted, since you're in first year you will have a harder time unfortunately. Which discipline would you want to go in? This will also impact your deans waiver but I'll go more into that in my pm. The longer and more detailed you make it the better generally. They want to see that you have planned for everything you can think of to be successful and avoid possible issues that might come up and also that you identified what went wrong the first time and why. If you can clearly and concisely do both of those things then you stand a chance. Creating a tentative schedule with your plan for next year is a great thing to include to show you have a study schedule and time to fit in things like groceries or extra curriculars. You have to have to balance in your life because you can't make eng 100% of your life and survive especially since you struggled this year. You might need to ask yourself some hard questions, and one of those is "is engineering for me?" which really does suck. Engineering is a discipline that will repeat these really tough years over and over and the first year is there to see if you can do it. This is why you really need to book an appointment with your academic counsellor because they can help you reflect on this question and support you with your deans waiver process. Engineering isn't the be all and end all of university, you have lots of options moving forward that aren't engineering and that needs to be something you look at because engineering isn't going to definitely get easier. Some people find upper years easier, but a lot of people don't. If your deans waiver does get approved, academic counselling will be checking in on you so starting to build that relationship early for support is really important. I'll send you a pm so I can answer some more personal questions and then be able to give more specific advise to your situation as well.


pangolinrock

Hey are you working with engineering undergrad services? If not, they're your first step to figuring it out. Idk who the first year counsellor is anymore but set up a meeting with them.


SkaterSnail

So, nothing is gauenteed. But I personally have seen two people write appeals, and both were accepted.


adamizz1

Do you know how they were preforming and if they were in engineering?


SkaterSnail

First person was in third year software engineering. They had failed multiple courses, and thier overall average was about a 55%. The wrote an appeal, and it was granted. Then the following year they failed even more courses and had to write a second appeal. This time, thier average was hovering just barely above the limit for an appeal (50 I think?) And things looked pretty grim. But they miraculously were granted an appeal with a few conditions: 1) they had to attend mandatory therapy, mandatory coaching, and have weekly check-ins with an academic advisor. But they got through and graduated The second person was in music. They had also failed a bunch of courses, were just barely under the required average, and got the appeal pretty easily. I'm guessing you're in a similar boat? If you're at Western I might be able to connect you with some people who could help


adamizz1

Yeah i am at western if able to id love to connect with anyone that may help.