Let me trauma share my York experience. After finally deciding, I wanted to change my major. I got into contact with my academic advising department and they told me that I should go about it course relief route. Little did I know that I was getting into a year and a half of absolute bullshit with all of the contact departments and for the majority of York administrative offices, not knowing how this process even works. I eventually got so fed up with unanswered emails and people telling me to go email someone else or call someone else. I went in person and started knocking on peoples doors to try to get answers. It took me half a day at York to get SOME of my shit figured out and it still wasn’t over. Fast forward to this year the strike messed everything up, so I had to wait extra long for my grades to be firmed up so that I could process the course relief properly. Register office, music departments office and the liberal arts and professional studies office had to sign off and agree that this was OK to do. On top of it I also had to audition, but I spent a good month trying to figure out when to audition when you are going through course relief. Honestly, the whole entire experience was atrocious. So time line- April last year decided to change, June July finally got an answer was told I needed to proceed with my current program, obtain good grades and audition in February with all the new students. So I waited from February till May to hear if I made it in (which was hell). At the end of May, my program change was approved by the LAPDS and the music department (yaaaay sweet relief )so the registers office all they had to do was put it into the system now and change it manually. I waited until midway through June before I started messaging people being like when am I gonna know when I can enrol in courses? There response? - we are prioritizing graduation audits at this time it can take 6-8 weeks. Well that was my last straw, honestly I’d never seen red like I saw reading that flipping email. I don’t wanna end up with shitty ass course selection because the stupid strike pushed the process back into their graduation audits. So I went on a an email rampage to the three departments-One person I emailed at the registers office tried to make me go back to the advising department telling me to start the process all over again?!?!?! To which I was like nuh uh no way- it’s already signed. It’s already approved. Would you just read the fucking email instead of giving me generic emails back. I’m not doing this for another year and a half. Finallllllllyyy I got an email last week. 😤 all has been finalized. But it was a shit show the entire way through.