Met By Type Code

The Met By Type code defines the type of override or course substitution (referred to as an alteration in the Advising system) and allows institutional requirements to be modified on an individual student-by-student basis.

There are essentially two types of alterations in Advising: waivers and substitutions. Substitutions might be used to indicate that a requirement has been met through a course substitution, or a waiver might indicate that a person's life experience or test results have satisfied a requirement.

With the above information in mind, configuring these codes on the Maintain Requirement Met By Types window is an easy process. You may configure a number of specific Met By Type codes as required by your institution but they will all be variants of a substitution or waiver. When you configure Met By Types, you will determine whether a Met By Type code is a waiver or substitution by the way you set the Reference Required flag.

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SUB is a code that might be used to indicate that a requirement has been met through a course substitution, and WAIVE is a code that might indicate that a person's life experience or test results have satisfied a requirement. KEYBRD might be a specific variant of a waiver that you want to track specifically to indicate students who met a requirement by taking and successfully passing a keyboarding test. Although the KEYBRD code was created for more specific tracking and since there is no academic weight applied, it is still a waiver.

Met By Type codes play other roles in applying alterations and so in working with your trainer, you will configure multiple