sims 4 university: term continues/ sims fail too easily
by EsmeraldaLimaOriginal Post
@Valadenthys, and @EsmeraldaLima , I think the short terms are for two reasosn: 1) to make it more like real-life where you have to stay on top of things to do well in college, and 2) with both the TS2 and TS3 versions of University , people complained that the terms were too long and dragged on. I think they attempted to fix that, but they shortened the terms too much! 
But I agree, the terms are very short and we would like the chance to socialize, explore, throw parties, and join the Organizations they made for us! (Or in other cases go to work or raise children, if that is your story!) The good thing is that as you play more , you will get the hang of it. I recommend at first taking only one or 2 classes and no organizations, or just take one class if you want to be in an organization as well. 
And I think the reason you can't play your normal families whilel one of your Sims is at university is because that would be like them cheating for their degree. So if you continue playing your student's parents while they were at uni, the student would n't have to do any work. It would be nice if they kind of "froze" at university while you played with their parents, but that isn't how TS4 works . It did work like that for TS2, though! TS2 was the best! 
I don't play with Mods, so if it doesn't change I have to learn adjust my gameplay around it and make it work.
I usually don't play rotationally anyway, and just use different Save Games for different households, so I will probably just have to create a new save for each Uni student in order to maintain the level of control I like in my game! 
You might give that a try as well, even if it isn't your preferred playing style, at least until there is a Mod that does what you want it to. I do find it odd that the households in Uni that you aren't playing at the moment don't freeze like in TS2, since most people play rotationally! 
I 100% agree with you. I wanted to create a dorm with some of my already existing sims, so when my first sim enrolled to Britechester I switched to another household and applied with that sim. After the three days of waiting for the acceptance letter, I moved the second sim to the dorm and realized that the first one (which I planned to be a A++ student) had like 2 days of the semester left an I could not manage him to pass all of his courses 
This issue makes it impossible for me to play the game at all, because as OP said I can't even play another household while having students enrolled!
I'm super angry and sad, so I will not touch TS4 until they fix this bug (and I really hope it's not a "feature"). My Pokémon will be happy to have my full attention for the next time.
@bohne006, I'm pretty sure this is intentional and not a bug! I could be wrong though. I know the developers have said they wanted us to work hard at Uni and focus on time management. I think then that this is part of that.
So, it would be best to just play one household in college at a time, or if you are in the dorms then just play one Sim at a time. You can set your game to not age your other households if you don't want anyone you aren't playing at the moment to age up until you return from college. 
@DMCain, those are all great tips! The only problem is that even if we start mid-week for the school term, depending on how many consecutive school terms your Sim takes, this might not be possible for all school terms, depending on the situation.
But if people are having a hard time getting the hang of how college works in the game, it would be best for them to only take one or 2 classes until they get the hang of it!
Thanks for all the tips! 