I've had my transcripts at UAB for five months. Five months since I had it all sent to them.
I register for classes next week. Some of the classes I need to register for require pre-requisites, which I have from my previous college work.
They emailed me today to tell me that they can't articulate the credits on my transcripts because they can't locate a catalog for the classes I took ten years ago at University of New Orleans.
They've had it for five months - and they just now tell me!
I'm so frustrated. I guess I have to call UNO and get the course information - I was told by UAB to "bring it with me" but I know that's going to mess up my registration, because if they don't have it in their computers that I've already taken the pre-reqs I'm not going to be able to register for the classes I need.
I really, really, really want to scream.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Don't you just love academia?
I'm sorry you have to go through this. I guess, consider this an opportunity to laugh at their ineptitude.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
That stinks. Hope it all works out for you. If you have too much trouble go see your Dean. They have all kinds of power and say so and if you personally tell the story the Dean might be more willing to help out.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
heck. I hope it works out. I have heard way too many stories like this.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Eh, I don't know about your school, but at mine they rarely check the pre-reqs, or if they do, the department does it, and will authorize for any plausible reason you could take the class (outside of things like language classes which are highly linear and could be held back by an unprepared student).
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Crisis appears to be averted. A very helpful lady at UNO is going to fax the course descriptions directly to UAB for me.
fugu, I've already been through this once at the junior college I'm attending now, and their computer wouldn't allow me to register without pre-reqs. Even the academic advisor couldn't override it, and that was because I tested out of a class at UNO but the information wasn't on my transcript so it didn't show up.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Gotta love academia. A friend of mine just finished (so she thought) her classes at the university here, moved three hours away out of state, and now they're telling her that she doesn't have enough credits to graduate, when they'd never said anything before. And the number of credits they claim she needs keeps mysteriously increasing; first it was just 2, then 5, and now they're saying 9. And IU is notoriously bad about allowing transfer credits from other universities, and their distance-learning program has a maximum of 6 credits that can count towards your degree. I really hope she can get this straightened out soon or she'll really be screwed.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Stray that is my nightmare, because the master's program I want to get into only admits people every other fall, so it's either finish by 2007 or wait until 2009, and I'll be cutting it close. If something like that happened to me I'd be hysterical.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
That's a darn stupid system. There's no good reason someone with appropriate ability to discriminate, such as the professor or a department member appointed to the task, shouldn't be able to override any requirements for a course. I'm astounded that people would buy a system which didn't allow it.
Stray: I was lucky and got truckloads of transfer and test credit, because the school I came from is one IU drools to emulate (its ascended to being one of the top ten schools in the nation in the past few decades).
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