Everytime the message changes, something bad happens...
A further installation in the UT Admissions Saga, AKA The Epic Tale of the Valiant Struggle of the Poor Disillusioned Prospective Student Versus the Forces of Evil Admissions People:
UT has a status check that allows fearful students to obsessively click refresh and check it every day even though we all know that it won't actually show anything new until sometime around November.
Except I'm special.
See, everytime I check the status check, I get a new message saying I FAIL. A while ago it told me that Palo Alto didn't send my transcript, so I called and cleared that up.
Then it changed and said that it was an "incomplete transcript." I called again, apologized for bothering them, and asked what the dealio (411, scoop, insert your own cheesy phrase here) was. They replied that it was because transfer students have to send their transcript as it is, then after the semester is done, an updated version of the transcript after they're accepted. The man at admissions assured me that it just meant that they didn't have the updated one, but as far as the deadline goes, I was fine.
So today, the message changed for the first time in a few weeks! Now it was saying that I didn't have the 30 hours of transferable credit I needed.
Guys, I have 41 hours, with 6 more coming in at the end of this semester. I did a degree audit, individually entered every class I've taken to see if they would transfer, and read every guideline for transfer credits there was. Now ten of these hours were while I was in high school, and there's some funky things going on there, so I figured even if those don't transfer, I'll have enough with these hours I'm taking this semester.
So I called up, and the guy in admissions transferred me to the actual transfer equivalency office. I asked the woman there how many hours I had, mentally calming myself.
"Ten hours," she said.
"TEN!?" I said. "Do--do you have my Palo Alto transcript?"
"Let me pull your file," she said.
She came back and sounded vaguely apologetic for giving me a minor heart attack a minute ago.
"It looks like there was a computer bug, and your file was one of the ones affected. Your Palo Alto transcript hasn't been processed yet. Clearly you have more than ten hours," she said cheerfully.
"Clearly," I repeated.
"So I'll process this today! Check back after five and the message should have changed."
Yes, I wonder, but to what?
ETA: "We've received all the items needed to review your application for admission." Ms. Transfer Lady did not disappoint!
In other news, why do I continue to support Barnes & Noble? I went to a used bookstore and picked up two J.D. Salinger novels, an anthology of Henry James, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and a collection of interviews and excerpts from the Beat Generation for $17.00. I was going to buy Sometimes a Great Notion at B&N and they wanted $20.00 for it.
UT has a status check that allows fearful students to obsessively click refresh and check it every day even though we all know that it won't actually show anything new until sometime around November.
Except I'm special.
See, everytime I check the status check, I get a new message saying I FAIL. A while ago it told me that Palo Alto didn't send my transcript, so I called and cleared that up.
Then it changed and said that it was an "incomplete transcript." I called again, apologized for bothering them, and asked what the dealio (411, scoop, insert your own cheesy phrase here) was. They replied that it was because transfer students have to send their transcript as it is, then after the semester is done, an updated version of the transcript after they're accepted. The man at admissions assured me that it just meant that they didn't have the updated one, but as far as the deadline goes, I was fine.
So today, the message changed for the first time in a few weeks! Now it was saying that I didn't have the 30 hours of transferable credit I needed.
Guys, I have 41 hours, with 6 more coming in at the end of this semester. I did a degree audit, individually entered every class I've taken to see if they would transfer, and read every guideline for transfer credits there was. Now ten of these hours were while I was in high school, and there's some funky things going on there, so I figured even if those don't transfer, I'll have enough with these hours I'm taking this semester.
So I called up, and the guy in admissions transferred me to the actual transfer equivalency office. I asked the woman there how many hours I had, mentally calming myself.
"Ten hours," she said.
"TEN!?" I said. "Do--do you have my Palo Alto transcript?"
"Let me pull your file," she said.
She came back and sounded vaguely apologetic for giving me a minor heart attack a minute ago.
"It looks like there was a computer bug, and your file was one of the ones affected. Your Palo Alto transcript hasn't been processed yet. Clearly you have more than ten hours," she said cheerfully.
"Clearly," I repeated.
"So I'll process this today! Check back after five and the message should have changed."
Yes, I wonder, but to what?
ETA: "We've received all the items needed to review your application for admission." Ms. Transfer Lady did not disappoint!
In other news, why do I continue to support Barnes & Noble? I went to a used bookstore and picked up two J.D. Salinger novels, an anthology of Henry James, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and a collection of interviews and excerpts from the Beat Generation for $17.00. I was going to buy Sometimes a Great Notion at B&N and they wanted $20.00 for it.