I have 2 YA plantsims who are heading to Uni and taking their sort-of siblings with them, and while I can select to bring the child and toddler on the "enroll in University" thing, it doesn't actually initiate travel, I guess because not everyone is enrolled or it just doesn't work with younger-than-teen. It's funny because it DOES complete the "enroll" opportunity, and the adults all rushed out to the curb to see the students off, but the "students" just sat down to watch TV. Their travel was considered "in progress" so they couldn't try travel there regularly after that. No big deal, I kind of figured it might not work so I saved right before.

So can somebody refresh me on how this works? Is this one of those things where I need to travel these sims to Uni world first, rent a house or whatever, and then enroll once they are settled in?

And if so, follow up questions: do I need to pause travel or anything, before or after enrolling? I'm afraid that the game will try to send them back before uni is over if it thinks they are still on "vacation", especially the kids who won't be enrolled in university. And if I enroll the YA sims in 2 terms, will they be automatically re-enrolled as usual and all the normal stuff?

Vacation the group to Uni for 7 or 14 sim days, for 1-week or 2-week terms respectively, and then have the actual intended students enroll at the Admin Building upon arrival. On the second Saturday afternoon, it would be time to end the trip and bring everyone home.

I can't offhand remember if 14-day travel is even an option right now as I almost always play 1-week terms. Hopefully someone else can advise on the best way to stop a premature return. Stopping the travel clock until it's time to go home sounds logical.

There are no 2-term enrollments, it's always one term that lasts 1 or 2 weeks unless you fiddle with the lengths of terms over standard.

Regular university enrollment has the choice of 1 or 2 terms (each a week long since I also use the standard 7 days), but are you saying that when enrolling from the Admin I'll have to do 1 term at a time?

That might actually be better anyways, to have them only be there a week/term at a time. And then I could age the toddler up between terms, which will make things easier for the second term. Champs Les Sims sucked with a toddler. They were always trying to pick up the baby then ride the Kenspa scooter (even though they HAD a preferred vehicle in their backpack) and then they'd get stuck and couldn't put the baby down and then I'd have to DE reset them and I ended up teleporting them everywhere instead. I can't imagine Uni world would run any smoother since toddlers aren't even meant to be there in the first place.

Toddlers can be less than convenient to have around in real life too, I'm sure I was at that age, but hey we struggle along bravely.

No, you had it right. When the term is 2-weeks, I still call that one term. Classes Mon-Thurs, exams Fri, weekend off and the academic progress meter goes away temporarily, classes again Mon-Fri, final exams Fri, grades come out on Sat. To me that is all still one term, double length, grades and credits granted only once at the end, no re-enrollments. I guess there could still be a graduation ceremony on the Saturday in between if inactives are graduating at the time.

I just find it less tedious to do 1-week terms. It always seems too short in the beginning, but by Thursday I'm usually kinda burned out on Uni World even though I love playing there for a nice change of pace.

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June 13th, 2021, 9:11 pm

It always seems too short in the beginning, but by Thursday I'm usually kinda burned out on Uni World even though I love playing there for a nice change of pace.

This pretty much sums it up for me, too. I'm having a blast and then I hit that first Thursday and I'm over it. I only do the 2-term (week) enrollments because I know if my sims go home after 1 week I probably won't make it back and then my story will be stalled. I do pretty standard aging so my sims don't have time to lollygag with gap years and finding themselves.