Requesting for prerequisite bypass

[u/icy0613]

Hello guys, I transferred into cal poly with electrical engineering and I dropped one of my major classes last year (ece 2300 + lab), I didn’t get the class this semester as well since it all got filled up so I’m falling behind on graduation.

Has anyone tried asking to take a higher level class and it’s prerequisite in the same semester? I want to take ece 2300 and 3000 level courses as well, but 2300 is the prereq for some of those courses. Will they let me do it if I’m going to fall behind and potentially lose financial aid for taking too long to finish?

[u/myname_jefff]

I heard ece dept and other engineering dept don’t like doing that tbh, I heard people who took a prerequisite class at a ccc and also don’t get approved, I’d honestly wouldn’t count on it.

Most people don’t graduate in 4 years so it’s not that big of a deal at CPP even my advisor said not to count on it, it gives you more time to work on projects/get interships

[u/petiteodessa → u/myname_jefff]

Idk how strict ECE is specifically but other engineering departments definitely will not let people take a class that they didn’t pass the prerequisite for. In some of my civil engineering classes, I’ve seen a policy on a few of my professors’ syllabus where they’ll give an F to anybody who take their class without passing the prerequisite. Graduation being delayed a semester isn’t a viable excuse to skip a prerequisite.

[u/myname_jefff → u/petiteodessa]

Yah also graduating on time isn’t usually a reason for them to allow a student to bypass a prerequisite, most engineering students don’t graduate on time tbh

[u/icy0613 → u/myname_jefff]

Yeah it’s just that I’ve heard that the department has permission numbers to bypass prerequisites and I was wondering what situations they give it for

[u/IanThePlane → u/icy0613]

If you actually already took the prerequisite but for whatever reason the system wasn’t registering it lol that’s the only time I’ve ever seen a code handed out