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Uncleared students are very much common among many colleges and universities. It is often common to see students drop their original major to pick up another one.
Freshmen Ameer Ali, is categorized as an undeclared sophomore and transfer student from Delaware County Community College. Ali sought out to find himself a new major, after discovering that he had a very hard time deciding what he was interested in. Ali transferred to Cabrini after hearing from a friend that Cabrini is a school of opportunities and has one of the best communication departments. Once Ali found out about many of the several courses Cabrini has to offer, his vision became much more clear.
Although Ali was able to transfer over, he was ineligible to be considered a sophomore. “I’m not sure why I was ineligible. I mean I was only one credit away from being a sophomore,’’ Ali said.
Not only has Ali had to struggle with being uncleared, but also many other students have to endure the stress of being uncleared when they decide to switch over. The main issue is trying to get all of there classes together, but as a result, for most students end up having to cram classes together which becomes overwhelming for many.
Sophomore Tayler Holmes also had to endure the process of switching her major after realizing it was very difficult to maintain the workload of classes and being a student-athlete. Holmes, who was then an exercise science major, decided to switch to psychology as it is something more suitable for her.
“Exercise science was harder then I thought it would be. Going into it as a major I wasn’t expecting it to be easy, but being an athlete made it even harder to keep up,” Tayler said.
Holmes at the time was still an undeclared sophomore. Because Holmes switched her major, she then had to make up the credits and was still considered a freshman. Today, Holmes is now cleared to be a sophomore. Luckily she was able to make up all her credits plus more and has been putting her time management into good use.
Another student Vanessa Charlot, who also decided to change her major from human resources, is now currently in the process of becoming a communication major. Charlot says she is happy that she decided to switch her major.
“I switched because I thought human resource was boring and it didn’t really relate to me as much.”
Charlot is currently taking many communication classes, such as video production and is enjoying the path that her major is taking her through.
Students like Kenia Rodriguez came to Cabrini as a secondary education major, through the course of the school year last year. Kenia took a different turn and decided to focus her attention to the criminology field.
“I decided to switch majors, because I came to Cabrini and found out that I just don’t want to be a teacher for the rest of my life,” Rodriguez said. “Plus being a cop was something I was looking forward to do since I was a kid.”
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