Sims 4 University question

I am having the opposite problem. Is there a way to keep sims from completing a term while I am doing rotational play. I want to play my college sims but I would prefer to send a bunch of students at once and play them all together. Is there a way to turn off this feature so that my sims are not graduated and ready to return home by the time I'm ready to play them? I am open to cheats or mods if that's what I have to do.

"BoergeAarg61;c-17466509" wrote:

"aaronrulz;d-974725" wrote:
What happens if I send my sim to University but do not play him and prefer to stay with the family back home? Do they complete courses/terms without having to control them?

They actually complete their present semester. Set aging to "active household only" to avoid aging while you are not playing them.

Students don't have to live on campus, by the way.

A friend of mine rotates through more than one household in her legacy and all four students she put through college ended up on Academic Probation while she was with another household. So they actually don't progress on their own when it comes to college.

@Gnattygan It works best to rotate away after you have completed the term. When it asks if you want to re-enroll, say no. You can enroll again when you return to the household later.

Only send them to university if you plan to play them. They'll flunk if they go on their own. Sims are stupid. You need to actually make them do their homework and attend class everyday, because they won't do it on their own. Even if you log into a different family for just a couple days to check on them, the one in college will skip school while you're playing the other family. You really need to devote yourself to the characters going to college.

That being said, you can have them live with the household you want to play, and just send them to classes the same as you would send them to a job. I like having them live at home while going to school, so I can play other characters at the same time. If they go away to school, you can only play one character at a time; and I prefer playing multiple characters.

I have found that they will maintain their grades if you play their first term. For example, I played a sim through their first term, got a B- and signed them up again. I rotated away and returned after their 2nd week was up, they still had a B-, so i just signed them up again for their last term and rotated away.

A university term only lasts 7 sim days. I found this out the hard way as others have said, I sent my sim self’s kids out to university and they were on academic probation next time I visited them. It then took me 6 sim weeks to complete each of their 12 credits.

I just dropped a few Sims out of Uni. I hope they will be able to start from scratch in a few days. I dropped them out because the grades plummeted to B- and C's while I was not playing them. I also noticed recently some Sims started completing degrees on their own, like Julia Wright and Becca Clarke, who then ended up in separate households too. Maybe I just never noticed before. I actually like having more educated townies, however I did want to play Becca and Julia at some point, so I dropped them out along with the Pleasant twins. When I evicted Becca and Julia from their campus housing they ended up with over a hundred thousand simoleons in the bank lol. I guess they won't need student loans when I sign them back up..