Rotational Play and University

I’m interested in finding out how this works as well. I don’t share a game but have several families I rotate around with. I usually change my family at 6am on a Sunday morning to try and avoid sims being late for work/school. I’ve seen a few comments on another thread but they didn’t really make much sense to me.
I understand that if your sim is at uni when you rotate away they will continue to ‘go to class’ and you will only get the bare minimum reward from that enrolled term. So from what I was previously reading you need to complete your rotation with the sim whose enrolled at university for the whole term and then swap to a different household before you re enrol to stop this from happening.

The term continues even if it’s not the active household. In my experience, they automatically re-enrolled and got a B and B-. It seems to have given them a random number of classes.
** ETA: Sorry, I was confused about this. That is how it works for other playable sims, but not the sims you’ve played yourself. For the sims you’ve played yourself, I’ve experienced 2 different things when rotating back to them. In one, I was immediately given a chance to re-enroll, and it appeared he got an average grade because his GPA went from an A+ to an A. In the other household (another dorm), I returned to find them On Probation, but I get an option to enroll again and the Merit Scholarships are still there, so that’s weird. **

So if you want your sims to graduate with honors, make sure you play them through their entire term each time. You will lose scholarships if you do not immediately re-enroll when the term ends, though I believe you can re-apply later, and you’ll be given 4 hours to pack up your things if you are living in Uni housing.

I'm interested, too. But from my understanding so far (without having the pack yet), I'm planning to play a full term (5-7 days) without rotating, and with aging turned off for everybody. Then the student must enroll again for the next term, but I think there is no problem to wait with the next enrolling. Game will not push a non-enrolled student forward, so next time playing the student I'll enroll + play through 1 term.

This way I believe rotating between houses is no problem. It will even be cute if the student visits parents between terms. I need to find out what happens to their dorm room if they take a break to visit their hometown, though.

Added: uhuuu, just read the post by @babajayne - if breaks are too complicated, I will rather play my students through the full thing with aging off, but limit how often I will send students. Would be so much easier if we could switch households between terms...

@Simmerville - It seems to me that a break in between terms is totally reasonable and a nice excuse to send them home, you can easily move them back to the same dorm and reclaim your preferred bed. You’ll lose any scholarships you have, but I don’t see why you can’t get them back, and it’s not prohibitively expensive to begin with. The roommate NPCs are going to change either way. I believe this is what I am going to do. Right now I’ve just been practicing with the premades. Just keep 1 household enrolled at a time if you want full control over their GPA and the classes they are signing up for.

University sounds awesome (I’m a console player so have to wait until it’s released) but the rotational play bit is a bit of a bummer now I’m used to that style of play. But you can’t have everything!

"babajayne;c-17314541" wrote:
The term continues even if it’s not the active household.

Soooo annoying. :(

I hoped the term would freeze in played households, when I'm not actively playing them. What a bummer. :s

I didn't know you could pause pregnancies with MCCC. That is good news. I bet eventually we will be able to pause Uni too.

I bet it is too early to be available yet.

I am a rotational player. Is that why I can't enroll any of my other sims in university after enrolling the first? My other sims turned in their applications almost a week ago and still have not heard back. So annoying! Do they have to go one at a time? How am I supposed to populate the world if they can only go one at a time?

This seems like a ridiculous oversight. The devs have to know how many rotational players there are. I just learned this lesson the hard way myself. Glad I decided to test things with the premades before sending my own sims to college.

I read the above thread but just so I'm clear on it, if I play rotationally and have a sim conclude a semester, I can rotate. I'll just have to reapply for scholarships and choose new housing? The sim won't auto-enroll in a new term with poor grades, right?

I definitely don't want to send them one at a time but I can deal with easing some of them into university, so that eventually, I'll have a bunch of my own sims on campus together with some new roommates and townies.

Yes, they definitely need to remember that some sims play rotationally. It's also annoying that pets are basically always sick when I return to a household. I've started having the owners stockpile wellness treats so that they can give a treat when I play them again.