Kind of. You can take courses at multiple institutions when they’re partnered (or in Can if you can show equivalency). However, that usually is just credit transfer. For actually graduating, well, if you can handle the course load it’s probably better done on the d/l and succeeding, rather than trying openly and having some administrator making you fail because “it’s not allowed”. I don’t know that different schools do a lot of sharing their student registers.
All that said, I wouldnt recommend it as even a double major at one school can break a person. Doing it at two different places seems a recipe for a major stress breakdown. (which would be why it’s unlikely that an open request would be approved). Then again, if both places offered majors that you were trying to combine to achieve a specifix objective, maybe you could find a prof or department to sponsor you and go to bat to make it happen.
I mean one would think that two schools don’t really care if you’re taking classes at eachother as long as you’re doing good at both and paying the unholy amounts they ask
Main issue is whether or not one campus will accept the transfer credits from the other. When one is a private university, transfer credit acceptance is less likely. And without participating in a program specifically designed for it, very less likely.
I dunno if it’s just my uni but I go to a private uni and we accept transfer credits from the public ones around here. A lot of the pre-med students use this to take difficult pre-med classes at the easier public unis during summer breaks and have those credits transfer in.
You jest, but… Bogus academic conference invite scams are a big deal these days. I can imagine a scam that goes “Congratulations! You’re into Yale! Plese send your first terms fees to Bank Of Nigeria account no 04555 777722…”
Oh shit, I did not see that coming. Dotty is less concerned with getting into Yale than with… what exactly? Is she staying because of Joyce/Walky/someone else?
I don’t think she is reconsidering Yale at all, I think she is worried about how to tell her friends. Things like that are always harder then you think they will be.
I really hope so. I don’t see a good reason for her to reconsider. Her best friend would basically sooner die than lose contact with her, she basically already gave up Walky for this, and everyone around her right now seems adjusted enough from the trauma of last semester where I don’t see her feeling like she’s needed as emotional support. I really hope she’s already accepted and it’s a done deal.
Chaucer59
I hope so, too. I turned down an appointment to Annapolis—for what seemed like good reasons at the time—40 years ago, and I’ve been kicking myself for it ever since. On the other hand, a friend decided against an acceptance to Stanford some years back because she realized she’d never be able to cover the cost.
BarerMender
Turned down Annapolis? Come over here and I’ll kick you.
Pimellon
ohh, yeah, I suppose it’s possible she got accepted but didn’t get enough financial aid? I don’t remember what Dorothy’s financial situation is like…
Wynne
As counterintuitive as it sounds, it’s probably cheaper for Dorothy to go to Yale than to stay where she is. Yale’s insane endowment means they give excellent financial aid, with no loans. If your parents make $65K or under they’ll cover your entire tuition flat out. The only people who pay a lot for Ivies these days are the rich kids who don’t need aid.
(Source: My cousin’s Yale tuition was so cheap that it basically paid for the difference in her sister’s tuition at WashU, which is PRICEY)
Felian
WOAH what since when does ANYTHING in capitalism make rich people pay and poor/average people can go for free?!
clif
One does not simply walk away from Annapolis.
I assume there were repercussions. People who recommended you that were, um, mildly annoyed.
Black
What the hell is Annapolis? All I get on Google is the capital of Maryland.
CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
Naval Academy; path to being bigshot officer type
BarerMender
Naval equivalent to the Army’s West Point.
Roborat
I turned down an acceptance at RMC (Canadian military college, our version of West Point), but for me it was the correct decision.
asp55
I think it’s likely that she Isn’t ready to give up the emotional support from her friends. She’s coping with plenty of her own trauma from last semester that new peers at Yale won’t necessarily understand.
Felian
That’s also more what i’m thinking…
She might have started out trying to be unattached to people so she could transfer soon, but…. well that didn’t work for long and now she cares about them a lot. So… i wouldn’t wonder if she wouldn’t maybe consider the possibility of not going.
Been there, not with anything prestigious, but i’ve had an acceptance letter for a masters course in another city and decided to not go because i’d just fallen in love in my city…. (and a few other details).
I don’t regret it, but i remember the ambivalence. Sometimes, it’s so much easier to NOT be offered what you originally wanted, so you can be happy with the thing you have instead, without it being your choice against #1…
Yale only accepts new transfer students during their fall semester and doesn’t stop taking applications until March. This would mean that she’s been accepted to Yale all along. Although I’m thinking its more likely that Willis didn’t bother checking this and just assumed she could transfer for winter semester. Either way having that letter at this time would usually indicate that the semester she was accepted for has already started at this point and would need to re-apply if she still intends to go there.
To be fair, Yale doesn’t typically have AmaziGirl, supervillain hostage situations, or whatever dynamic it is Becky is trying to do,
so she might actually do better there.
Here’s a thought; She got that letter LAST semester and past up her opportunity because her friends all got kidnapped/had loved ones killed.
clif
Yeah. My first thought was that Dorothy was seeing this on the screen and had just now been accepted. But no. This is a physical letter. Which means that Dorothy had it at least during her conversation with Becky.
This is what is known as psychological tension.
Demoted Oblivious
Fair enough. But that would likely be sufficient reason for them to defer her enrolement.
Another theory (somewhat flaky): Dorothy got that after applying and including the kidnapling story in her application. Maybe she didn’t want to get in because of the kidnapping being the thing Yale sees as making her extraordinary. Imposter Syndrome can go a very long way to undermining faith in oneself.
And yeah, Willis loves playing with that Psychological Tension dial. Thankfully he hasn’t found the 11 yet. (reviews past years, mike’s death, ag’s status, Billie/Ruth…. hmm maybe if Willis would turn it *down* to 11 would be a good thing.)
Miles
I don’t think the letter is old. Dorothy is too organized to keep something in her mail pile that long.
Alternate theory: The letter actually says “Next Semme”. Yale is the front for the Semme organization and this is where Willis jumps the shark and reintroduces all the Walky (sorry, I meant wacky) sci-fi and hijinks.
Theory Three: Dorothy is confused a.f. because she didn’t apply. Turns out Becky submitted Dotty’s application in secret, which is why she’s fishing for an update 2 strips back.
Miles
Yet another theory: This has been yale all along and Dorothy is the only one who’s figured it out. She pretends to be busy studying but she’s actually collecting proof so she can blow this “pretending to be Indiana university” scam wide open.
It would be a loong commute for Joyce to return to Indiana every time she teleports to Dorothy at Yale. (New Haven, CT to Bloomington, IN is about 13 hours by car, not including stops.)
Huh. Didn’t see this coming. Is it because of someone? Or does she think she couldn’t keep up if she went? She was already having grade troubles at this school…does she think she’d fail out if she did go to yale? And succeeding at a school like this would be better for her longterm plans than failing out of yale?
Even if Dorothy was struggling here, top Ivies tend to be harder to get into than to make the grade at–they want every student to succeed, so they want their graduates to have decent GPAs to show employers, and there’s much less of the “weeding out” other schools do to keep their programs competitive. If Dorothy is so set on Yale, I’d imagine she knows this.
Honestly, I think the whole “Becky got her foot in the door in the world of politics before I did” did a number on her psyche. She had a concrete plan- start at this school, get superb grades, switch to Yale, graduate with honors, become an assistant to a politician, run fir office herself, run for president, become president- but she worked herself into exhaustion to be within striking distance of her first goal. Then Becky, seemingly out of nowhere, comes in and becomes Robin’s campaign manager without (to her) really trying, or even asking for it, and her view of the ladder to the presidency cracked. Add to the fact that her escape plan when Blaine kidnapped everyone, carefully thought out, backfired spectacularly, leading to Ross dying and Joyce almost getting abducted and used as a hostage (it was dumb luck that Sal arrived as Blaine was leaving) and I think Dorothy is really doubting herself and her leadership skills. If she couldn’t lead her friends to freedom, how would she able to lead THE ENTIRE COUNTRY?
That’s a good description of what’s going through her mind. I’d add in that she’s now realizing that politics really is a lame popularity contest, not a competence contest. The americans had a choice between a zero-experience celebrity and quite possibly the most competent candidate they ever had, and they went with the celebrity! What’s worse, when said zero experience celebrity’s incompetence trashed the country and even threatened the wealth and health of the 1%, (which is totally unprecedented), he almost got reelected!
DOA isn’t set in any specific time, but I think some of that has to factor in with Willis’s writing of Dorothy. I think she may be realizing that her original plan may be pointless given how off target it is.
Or maybe she doesn’t know how to tell her friends. I don’t know. In any case, switching schools is usually something you do between semesters, not during them.
Belegcam
I’ve thought this for some time. “Dorothy is a young Hillary Clinton” certainly hits quite a bit differently in 2020 than it did in 2010.
All we know is that she has an acceptance letter on her desk, covers it up, and keeps typing on her computer into the night. She had the letter out, so her typing might have to do with the acceptance. Or it might not. This thread will advance as our author finds it dramatically useful.
Yes…that’s how stories work? They unfold as they are released. I don’t need to be explained how comics work. I *wrote* a comic for 4 years.
You have this tendency to explain things in the comments as if you’re the only one who’s aware of them. The whole point to the comment section is to react and speculate.
No, it’s just a condition of their scholarship that the three occupants of the dorm room will be hot racking, aka “This may be your bed from 00:00 to 08:00, but it’s mine from 16:00 to 00:00.”
I thought he had said something about the end of the first semester, but that was apparently mistaken? If so though, he might well change his mind, who knows.
Lala
First semester hasn’t ended, I don’t think. They had midterms and winter break… so this should be the second half of the first semester. Second “quarter” of the school year.
showler
They’ve been there from September to January. Unless they have a 20 month year, they are in the second semester of a two semester year.
236 thoughts on “Letter”
Ana Chronistic
DOTTY NO
I MEAN YES
I MEAN… shit, can you double major but one major is at a different school where you’re taking remote learning classes
Demoted Oblivious
Kind of. You can take courses at multiple institutions when they’re partnered (or in Can if you can show equivalency). However, that usually is just credit transfer. For actually graduating, well, if you can handle the course load it’s probably better done on the d/l and succeeding, rather than trying openly and having some administrator making you fail because “it’s not allowed”. I don’t know that different schools do a lot of sharing their student registers.
All that said, I wouldnt recommend it as even a double major at one school can break a person. Doing it at two different places seems a recipe for a major stress breakdown. (which would be why it’s unlikely that an open request would be approved). Then again, if both places offered majors that you were trying to combine to achieve a specifix objective, maybe you could find a prof or department to sponsor you and go to bat to make it happen.
ProjectXa3
I mean one would think that two schools don’t really care if you’re taking classes at eachother as long as you’re doing good at both and paying the unholy amounts they ask
Michael Steamweed
Main issue is whether or not one campus will accept the transfer credits from the other. When one is a private university, transfer credit acceptance is less likely. And without participating in a program specifically designed for it, very less likely.
dragon_nataku
I dunno if it’s just my uni but I go to a private uni and we accept transfer credits from the public ones around here. A lot of the pre-med students use this to take difficult pre-med classes at the easier public unis during summer breaks and have those credits transfer in.
Doctor_Who
Plot Twist: Dorothy throws it out because she keeps getting them and they’re all signed “Mecky BacIntyre, Dean of Admissions and Queen of Ponies”.
davidbreslin101
You jest, but… Bogus academic conference invite scams are a big deal these days. I can imagine a scam that goes “Congratulations! You’re into Yale! Plese send your first terms fees to Bank Of Nigeria account no 04555 777722…”
Grace
Isn’t the real one Yale University not Yale College?
Stepfan
Yale College is the undergraduate focused subdivision of Yale University. 🙂
Kyrik Michalowski
Oh shit, I did not see that coming. Dotty is less concerned with getting into Yale than with… what exactly? Is she staying because of Joyce/Walky/someone else?
Mydnyt
I don’t think she is reconsidering Yale at all, I think she is worried about how to tell her friends. Things like that are always harder then you think they will be.
regina phalange
I really hope so. I don’t see a good reason for her to reconsider. Her best friend would basically sooner die than lose contact with her, she basically already gave up Walky for this, and everyone around her right now seems adjusted enough from the trauma of last semester where I don’t see her feeling like she’s needed as emotional support. I really hope she’s already accepted and it’s a done deal.
Chaucer59
I hope so, too. I turned down an appointment to Annapolis—for what seemed like good reasons at the time—40 years ago, and I’ve been kicking myself for it ever since. On the other hand, a friend decided against an acceptance to Stanford some years back because she realized she’d never be able to cover the cost.
BarerMender
Turned down Annapolis? Come over here and I’ll kick you.
Pimellon
ohh, yeah, I suppose it’s possible she got accepted but didn’t get enough financial aid? I don’t remember what Dorothy’s financial situation is like…
Wynne
As counterintuitive as it sounds, it’s probably cheaper for Dorothy to go to Yale than to stay where she is. Yale’s insane endowment means they give excellent financial aid, with no loans. If your parents make $65K or under they’ll cover your entire tuition flat out. The only people who pay a lot for Ivies these days are the rich kids who don’t need aid.
(Source: My cousin’s Yale tuition was so cheap that it basically paid for the difference in her sister’s tuition at WashU, which is PRICEY)
Felian
WOAH what since when does ANYTHING in capitalism make rich people pay and poor/average people can go for free?!
clif
One does not simply walk away from Annapolis.
I assume there were repercussions. People who recommended you that were, um, mildly annoyed.
Black
What the hell is Annapolis? All I get on Google is the capital of Maryland.
CorporateDronesDontHaveMissiles
Naval Academy; path to being bigshot officer type
BarerMender
Naval equivalent to the Army’s West Point.
Roborat
I turned down an acceptance at RMC (Canadian military college, our version of West Point), but for me it was the correct decision.
asp55
I think it’s likely that she Isn’t ready to give up the emotional support from her friends. She’s coping with plenty of her own trauma from last semester that new peers at Yale won’t necessarily understand.
Felian
That’s also more what i’m thinking…
She might have started out trying to be unattached to people so she could transfer soon, but…. well that didn’t work for long and now she cares about them a lot. So… i wouldn’t wonder if she wouldn’t maybe consider the possibility of not going.
Been there, not with anything prestigious, but i’ve had an acceptance letter for a masters course in another city and decided to not go because i’d just fallen in love in my city…. (and a few other details).
I don’t regret it, but i remember the ambivalence. Sometimes, it’s so much easier to NOT be offered what you originally wanted, so you can be happy with the thing you have instead, without it being your choice against #1…
Xaeon
Yale only accepts new transfer students during their fall semester and doesn’t stop taking applications until March. This would mean that she’s been accepted to Yale all along. Although I’m thinking its more likely that Willis didn’t bother checking this and just assumed she could transfer for winter semester. Either way having that letter at this time would usually indicate that the semester she was accepted for has already started at this point and would need to re-apply if she still intends to go there.
Nah
She may think she can’t actually pass at yale. She’s having trouble with grades at this school already.
Rainhat
To be fair, Yale doesn’t typically have AmaziGirl, supervillain hostage situations, or whatever dynamic it is Becky is trying to do,
so she might actually do better there.
Norah
It looks to me like it says “next se” which I’m thinking might mean “next semester”?
Dr. T
Here’s a thought; She got that letter LAST semester and past up her opportunity because her friends all got kidnapped/had loved ones killed.
clif
Yeah. My first thought was that Dorothy was seeing this on the screen and had just now been accepted. But no. This is a physical letter. Which means that Dorothy had it at least during her conversation with Becky.
This is what is known as psychological tension.
Demoted Oblivious
Fair enough. But that would likely be sufficient reason for them to defer her enrolement.
Another theory (somewhat flaky): Dorothy got that after applying and including the kidnapling story in her application. Maybe she didn’t want to get in because of the kidnapping being the thing Yale sees as making her extraordinary. Imposter Syndrome can go a very long way to undermining faith in oneself.
And yeah, Willis loves playing with that Psychological Tension dial. Thankfully he hasn’t found the 11 yet. (reviews past years, mike’s death, ag’s status, Billie/Ruth…. hmm maybe if Willis would turn it *down* to 11 would be a good thing.)
Miles
I don’t think the letter is old. Dorothy is too organized to keep something in her mail pile that long.
Demoted Oblivious
Alternate theory: The letter actually says “Next Semme”. Yale is the front for the Semme organization and this is where Willis jumps the shark and reintroduces all the Walky (sorry, I meant wacky) sci-fi and hijinks.
clif
Don’t tease me with what can never be. Sob!
Demoted Oblivious
Theory Three: Dorothy is confused a.f. because she didn’t apply. Turns out Becky submitted Dotty’s application in secret, which is why she’s fishing for an update 2 strips back.
Miles
Yet another theory: This has been yale all along and Dorothy is the only one who’s figured it out. She pretends to be busy studying but she’s actually collecting proof so she can blow this “pretending to be Indiana university” scam wide open.
Socks
Dorothy, gooooo, you can Skype with Joyce and see her on school breaks and stuffffff
Ferret
>using Skype in 2020
a/snow/mous/e
ok zoomer
Socks
I will go to my grave using Skype as a generic for video chat software and I refuse to compromise
Needfuldoer
It would be a loong commute for Joyce to return to Indiana every time she teleports to Dorothy at Yale. (New Haven, CT to Bloomington, IN is about 13 hours by car, not including stops.)
Icalasari
So wanna bet that Becky finds it and causes a whole scene?
jdorr
I’m guessing such a scene will either be about not telling them and/or her not actually accepting
Nah
Huh. Didn’t see this coming. Is it because of someone? Or does she think she couldn’t keep up if she went? She was already having grade troubles at this school…does she think she’d fail out if she did go to yale? And succeeding at a school like this would be better for her longterm plans than failing out of yale?
timemonkey
Probably just doesn’t want to break the news to her friends. Joyce will be crushed at the least.
Miles
Joyce won’t be crushed by anything. That triangle on her face is magical.
regina phalange
Even if Dorothy was struggling here, top Ivies tend to be harder to get into than to make the grade at–they want every student to succeed, so they want their graduates to have decent GPAs to show employers, and there’s much less of the “weeding out” other schools do to keep their programs competitive. If Dorothy is so set on Yale, I’d imagine she knows this.
Corey C
Honestly, I think the whole “Becky got her foot in the door in the world of politics before I did” did a number on her psyche. She had a concrete plan- start at this school, get superb grades, switch to Yale, graduate with honors, become an assistant to a politician, run fir office herself, run for president, become president- but she worked herself into exhaustion to be within striking distance of her first goal. Then Becky, seemingly out of nowhere, comes in and becomes Robin’s campaign manager without (to her) really trying, or even asking for it, and her view of the ladder to the presidency cracked. Add to the fact that her escape plan when Blaine kidnapped everyone, carefully thought out, backfired spectacularly, leading to Ross dying and Joyce almost getting abducted and used as a hostage (it was dumb luck that Sal arrived as Blaine was leaving) and I think Dorothy is really doubting herself and her leadership skills. If she couldn’t lead her friends to freedom, how would she able to lead THE ENTIRE COUNTRY?
jmsr7
That’s a good description of what’s going through her mind. I’d add in that she’s now realizing that politics really is a lame popularity contest, not a competence contest. The americans had a choice between a zero-experience celebrity and quite possibly the most competent candidate they ever had, and they went with the celebrity! What’s worse, when said zero experience celebrity’s incompetence trashed the country and even threatened the wealth and health of the 1%, (which is totally unprecedented), he almost got reelected!
DOA isn’t set in any specific time, but I think some of that has to factor in with Willis’s writing of Dorothy. I think she may be realizing that her original plan may be pointless given how off target it is.
Or maybe she doesn’t know how to tell her friends. I don’t know. In any case, switching schools is usually something you do between semesters, not during them.
Belegcam
I’ve thought this for some time. “Dorothy is a young Hillary Clinton” certainly hits quite a bit differently in 2020 than it did in 2010.
Antonio Tyler
Holy crap holy crap holy crap
Dorothy. What are you doing?
Rotunda
All we know is that she has an acceptance letter on her desk, covers it up, and keeps typing on her computer into the night. She had the letter out, so her typing might have to do with the acceptance. Or it might not. This thread will advance as our author finds it dramatically useful.
clif
Dang you Willis.
Antonio Tyler
Yes…that’s how stories work? They unfold as they are released. I don’t need to be explained how comics work. I *wrote* a comic for 4 years.
You have this tendency to explain things in the comments as if you’re the only one who’s aware of them. The whole point to the comment section is to react and speculate.
spookyfox
DOTTIE!
clif
Has an expression that is impossible to read. No joy. No distress. Just hidden in darkness, lit by a computer screen.
ValdVin
Sooooo, that’s why Willis hid her face behind that furniture the last couple of strips.
I wondered where he was going with that. Good stuff.
cmasta1992
Okay but what if we shipped Malaya and Rachel to Yale instead
Doctor_Who
End that sentence three words earlier and you could drive people mad with it.
Cmasta1992
That would rank pretty high on Most Garbage Ship ever possible for this series.
Proxiehunter
And when they get there their dorm room only has one bed?
Oh, wait. Wrong kind of shipping.
Khyrin
No, it’s just a condition of their scholarship that the three occupants of the dorm room will be hot racking, aka “This may be your bed from 00:00 to 08:00, but it’s mine from 16:00 to 00:00.”
Nono
I’d actually be okay with Dorothy moving to Yale? I mean she’s a great character but this opens up some room in the cast.
Needfuldoer
A new character with vague physical similarities but a polar opposite personality will be written in for Season 3.
erinacea
Isn’t that already Amber?
showler
Dang, that’s going to be a big change in the comic. In 2030.
BarerMender
Didn’t Willissay something about ending the strip at the end of freshman year?
Mishyana
I thought he had said something about the end of the first semester, but that was apparently mistaken? If so though, he might well change his mind, who knows.
Lala
First semester hasn’t ended, I don’t think. They had midterms and winter break… so this should be the second half of the first semester. Second “quarter” of the school year.
showler
They’ve been there from September to January. Unless they have a 20 month year, they are in the second semester of a two semester year.