Education Requirements - IL

SURVEYLTD, post: 380857, member: 319 wrote: Rules are the rules

Yep. Green is green. A car is a car.

And...rules are rules, but rules are sometimes inane, and counterproductive.

Let's flesh this out...rules best applied with context and judgement. I have no idea what you meant, but people that say, "rules are rules" usually dislike context or judgement. This is normal within a bureaucracy, but tends to be galling to a surveyor, who's profession is built on context and judgement. I am pretty sure all boards work that way, judging from the posts about signed applications, and such...but it is still inconvenient.

Holy Cow, post: 380909, member: 50 wrote: ...d living in Mama's basement until age 42. They don't want to encourage the mouthy ones who proclaim equality...

Did we meet somewhere?

🙂

And, now that I have my license, I think all new applicants should have Masters...no, Doctorates...and internships, long ones!

SURVEYLTD, post: 380940, member: 319 wrote: Gradute of U of Notre Dame 74.

Rules? We don't need no stinking rules.

aliquot, post: 380880, member: 2486 wrote: Except for boundaries, surveying is applied physics, so I understand the requirement, but I can't see how you couldn't have the equivalent of the 8 hours with a BS in forestry. Did you take any soil science classes?

I sent them 9 hours of courses that required chemistry as a prerequisite - Soils, Wood Tech, and Hydrology as well as Fire Ecology (no prerequisite but it mentioned chemistry specifically in the course description)

... Denied

"All additional forestry classes will be credited as additional sciences"

StLSurveyor, post: 380901, member: 7070 wrote: I applied and had the exact same result. I also have nearly the exact same education. After 3 letters back and forth, I have to take 7 hours additional math and 3 hrs Chemistry.

Ryan?

I have a Bachelor of Science from Stephen F. Austin State University with 4 hours taught from the Chemistry department, no physics. I took statistics and forest mensuration (applied statistics to forest inventory methods) along with the other math requirements. I took 8 hours of biology and ecology from the Biology department. I took soils, hydrology, ecology, and wood technology in from the College of Forestry among the 140-some odd hours of my undergraduate degree.

When I applied to Missouri, they requested that I take the MO Legal Aspects course offered at a local junior college I took the course and was approved to sit to the FS exam.

While I was earning my 4 years of experience after passing the FS, I pursued a Masters degree in Geography from SIUE. I took graduate statistics and I even took an advanced surveying methods course offered through their engineering department and taught by Jim Peterson,

I applied to Texas in January. They require a 4 year degree but if you are licensed in another state, they don't specify the specific hour or course requirements. However, I have enough hours to meet their requirements if I wasn't previously licensed. I took and passed their RPLS exam in April.

I enrolled in physics this summer at the same local community college but it is a brutal time suck of a class.

dmyhill, post: 380988, member: 1137 wrote: And, now that I have my license, I think all new applicants should have Masters...no, Doctorates...and internships, long ones!

Nothing wrong with obtaining Doctorate degree, I do not want the "attitude" that apparently comes with one.

Si