[Cr]Akron
So here's how it started: I applied to Akron university early in July. I paid the application fee and sent my transcripts from Ball State. Around the end of July, I start getting worried because Akron hadn't sent me anything in the mail in response to my application. I did some surfing around Univ. of Akrons website and found someone in HR to email about the issue. They emailed me back and told me they hadn't received my transcripts. So I freak out a little because Ball [suck] State apparently didn't receive my transcript request form. Just a side note: Ball state doesn't give out transcripts. You have to go on their website and print out a form, send in the form, and they send transcripts to the party that needs them. So after I send in another request, finally Akron sends me an acceptance letter and the "Intent to Enroll" form.
Now the intent to enroll form is basically one more thing they have you fill out that further specifies what major you are going for and confirms that you WILL be attending Akron. I go online to fill out the form, and pay $75.00 and wait for the orientation packet to be sent to my house. Lucky for me I get the orientation packet in the mail about 3 days before I leave for California.
In that 3 days, I manage to get online to schedule my orientation. I schedule my preferred orientation date to be August 17th and my alternate orientation date to be August 20th. I even called the office of new student orientation and spoke with one of the coordinators and told her I wouldn't be able to attend anything earlier because I would be out of town. So I'm under the impression that everything will work out because I would return from California August 15th.
When I get back from California, there is a letter from Akron sitting in my room. I read it and find out they had scheduled my orientation for August 14th -a day before I came home from California. I call in the number to reschedule and the girl who picks up tells me that she is just going to send me my advisors name and number in the mail because there were no more transfer student orientation dates available. Now, if you are a transfer student, wouldn't you have to go through the same orientation process (besides placement tests) as any new student would? *sigh*
I finally get her name and number the mail Wednesday August 22 (yesterday). I call right away (around 2pm) and leave her a voicemail explaining my situation. I wait around until about 4 until I call again -she's still unavailable. Another call was made at 4:30 and still nothing.
This morning as I'm getting ready for work I call around 9:30am, another around 10 and another at 10:30 as I'm on my way to work. All my attempts fail. I get to work this morning and go on the Akron website and find other numbers to call. First I try the HR department. They transfer me to the New student orientation office, then they transfer me to the advising office, who in turn transfers me to the deans office. By this time I'm ready to scream because it seems like every time I get a hold of someone, they transfer my problem to someone else.
So I finally get to speak with Ruthie's secretary (the advisor who never answers her phone). She tells me shes at a lunch meeting and will call me back (I'm thinking yeah right). To my surprise she actually called me back around 1pm today. We were talking and she discovered that for some reason, the girl who sent me my advisors name and phone number, sent me the wrong information. I applied to the college of fine arts under graphic design, and the girl had me under applied arts and sciences.
So now I'm sitting here at work waiting for this fine arts advisor to call me back because shes at a lunch meeting as well (curious huh?) In Akrons defense, I was out of town up until 10 days before class starts. Thats one thing that screwed me because if I wasn't in California, I would have been able to attend the orientation on the 14th. But in my defense, Akron messed up my major, gave me the wrong information, and evaded my situation by transferring me all over hell and back and nothing was really solved.