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Worked all semester for an a only to fail the final due to conflicting information.
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I fully plan to contact either the professor or some administrator (not sure who else I should try and contact) about this in the morning. I haven't completely given up yet.
I am extremely frustrated that something like this was allowed to occur, however. Especially considering that I DID seek clarification BEFORE the deadline and was provided with conflicting deadlines.
When you contact the professor, CC their boss -- perhaps a Department Chair? If you already reached out, forward that contact and all other related correspondences and documentation to their boss.
This is exactly the kind of BS faculty are not allowed to get away with. Dude slipped up and the correct course of action is to not screw you over.
If that fails, look up the boss's boss (such as the College Dean) and loop them in, outlining your efforts to resolve this and the boss's inability to support your honest effort for fair academic assessment. You're not demanding an A in the class -- just for dude to grade your Final.
Eventually, you will reach someone with enough sense and not enough patience to tell everyone below them, "Just grade OP's final FFS!"
Source: I work in administration at a university.
I would not go straight to the chair. No one likes something like this being escalated without having a chance to fix it first.
100%. That’s very much “demanding to speak to a manager” without giving someone a chance to rectify an error.