DEGREE PLAN

Coming up — the next 28 days

Every dated thing in one place: academic-calendar deadlines and your own dated items, merged and sorted. This strip exists because a POLS 1100 waitlist offer expired unnoticed on 25 Aug — email only, 25 hours, nothing watching it.

Do next

Each item cycles ○ next → ◐ waiting on someone → ● done. Waiting is a real state — "waiting for the letter" is not "not started." A greyed item is blocked until the item it names is done. Reorder with the arrows or by dragging. When you mark something done, name what proves it (the sent email, the capture, the call) so the list and reality cannot drift apart. Saved in this browser; ☁ Save keeps it in the cloud.

Registered — Fall 2026

Ming's rule on record: assess within 24 hours of classes starting (Sept 2) and drop to two of the three 1st-session upper-division courses if the load is wrong. Free drop (100% refund, no W): Sept 14 for 1st-session courses, Nov 2 for 2nd-session. Banner cap: 18 credits.

What the MCTC posting changes

Minneapolis College's 14 credits were received 08/18 and are expected to post around 8/25. When Degree Works' "Overall Credits" moves 51 → 65, read the new rows: each course either carries a General Education designation (clears its row) or lands as a 1000E elective, like the UMN work did.

Flip the matching toggle on the Scenarios tab. The 52 remaining does not move either way — only which named courses are still owed.

Deadlines

Where the numbers come from

Reference sheet with every row tagged FACT / ASSUMED / CONTRADICTED / REGISTERED: tools/suu-assumed-baseline-2026-08-21.md. Seat counts are as of the capture date; re-check in Banner before registering.

Assumptions (toggle to see the effect)

Presets:

Result

Named courses still owed

Cost

Planner — Fall 2026 → Fall 2027

Only Speedway sections are shown — Banner refuses SUU Online sections for Speedway students ("Campus Restriction", tested 8/21). Every course has ⓘ (description) and ⇄ (swap for another course that fills the same requirement). Arrows show prerequisites. Fall 2027 is not published; its slots are inferred from Fall 2025 + Fall 2026 and labeled.

Checks

    Course availability (Speedway sections, seats as of capture)

    Cells: session · open seats/capacity (waitlist). "inferred" = expected in Fall 2027 from the Fall 2025/2026 pattern. "—" = no Speedway section that term.

    Degree and campus options, against the current scenario toggles

    Decision on record (8/21): stay on Speedway BGS, General Track until Joey answers the math / override / campus-change questions. BA and BS live on the SUU Online campus ($3,780 flat per semester) and need a campus change; the BA's 16 language credits are live only via a BYU FLATS test-out (Cantonese or Mandarin — Taishanese is not a FLATS language) and purchase of the credits.

    Language facts (BA only)

    • Degree Works BA What-If: "16 Credits in ONE foreign language — CHIN 1010:4850, FREN, GERM, GREK, SPAN". UMN's language waiver does not carry: the BA audit shows 0 of 16 applied.
    • SUU's buy-back route: pass a FLATS exam (BYU, $50 online + $25 SUU proctoring), then purchase the 16 lower-division credits at $6/credit ≈ $196 total. Those 16 credits count toward the 120, which is why the BA + FLATS row above shows fewer credits remaining.
    • Taking the four semesters instead (CHIN 1010 → 2020) is 16 real credits of coursework; whether CHIN has SUU Online sections was not captured — it is not among the 47 courses pulled from Banner. Beginner level is fine: the requirement is credits in one language, not upper-division.
    • Total stays 120 either way. Under the BA the 16 language credits occupy free-elective space (18 free in the Assumed scenario), so they add 0 credits if they fit, and every credit over the free space is extra.

    Questions for Joey Stagg — Thu Aug 27, 9:45 a.m. PT

    Checkboxes and answers are saved in this browser only. Copy answers into tools/advisor-appointment-questions-2026-08-20.md after the meeting.