Devastated

bollweevil · Mar 6, 2008

Maybe she doesn't want to put it in writing. Can you call?
I would be on that phone calling tomorrow to clarify. My heart couldn't take it.

She needs it in writing. A phone call can be too easily denied. She needs a formal letter on their letterhead stationery, not email.

bollweevil · Mar 6, 2008

Just wanted to say hang in there and I hope it works out for you. I have a similar problems with the advising at my school. First, when I originally met with the DON a couple of years ago she granted me all sorts of exceptions (didn't have to take alot of the general ed stuff because I already had a bachelors degree and would be applying for their accelerated program). She says they will look at that GPA and the sciences I have to take to determine entrance (I had a 3.9). Well, I take my time, do fairly well on the sciences and contact her again to review everything before I apply. Now I'm told there is an actual Nursing advisor I must meet with. I go see the Advisor and suddenly all the exceptions are null and void. I had to take all these extra idiotic classes (sociology, anthropology, history...yada yada yadda). I already have a Bachelor's Degree for crying out loud. I had to put up quite a fuss and finally they found ways around some of the classes but I still have to take a couple. Well, I'm now wrapping those up and met with the advisor again. She looked at all my courses and said I was fine with GPA and that the one course I have left to take I can take this summer (its a Gen Ed elective)just to put that notation on my application. Now I talk to her again (this is just a few weeks later) and my GPA is now too low! It's the same one she saw a few weeks ago. So now I am scrambling to get into a distance learning class for that last Gen ed class because I can take something easy and get a good grade to boost my GPA. Oh, and did I mention my advisor also lost my file at least once, never reponds to email (because then she actually has to put down what she says in writing). Sorry for ranting, I'm just really stressed and needed to vent a little bit.
Dee

She is doing exactly what you figured out - trying to not have to actually commit anything to writing so she can deny you admission if a more attractive candidate comes along. Where do they get these people??? I'd raise hell to her boss if she tried to fool with me like that. I'm too old to put up with that mess. She doesn't have the right to drive you batty.:angryfire

MAmom81 · Mar 6, 2008

I've been crying all night.
I just started this Spring, after many years of being out of school, at a local CC to apply for their nursing program for this Fall. I had attended several years before and had over 50 hours completed, but did not get my Associate degree in General Studies. I was planning on transferring to a 4-year at the time, but life got in the way.
When I met with the nursing advisor last August about attending this school, she pulled my college transcript, said, "This looks great, your grades are very good," and encouraged me to apply for Fall of 2007. She didn't say anything about high school, at all. I have a 3.4 GPA, I did extremely well on my TEAS.
Well, today I got a letter in the mail regarding my score that they use with my GPA, pre-reqs, etc for admission to the nursing program.
I about collapsed when I saw what they were using for my GPA. They used my HIGH SCHOOL GPA, which was extremely low because I had a horrible home life when I was in school and had an undiagnosed learning disability.
When I called the nursing program, they said that if I had finished my AA degree in General Studies this past Fall, they would have used my overall college GPA instead of my high school GPA. WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL ME THAT?
Guess how far I was away from finishing my AA degree? One history class, that was it! I could have taken that this past Fall if she had told me to!
I have this on appeal right now. On the flip side, a close friend of mine had a 3.75 in high school and has a 2.3 college GPA, after three years of coursework, and didn't do well on the TEAS, but she has a higher score for entrance than I do because they used her high school GPA.
I could fully accept if I didn't get in with the way my grades are now, but this faculty members is getting paid a salary to advise and she told me wrong! It was totally fixable!

You poor thing that's not right at all & sounds all too familiar, my friend went througth something similar to your situation she asked a counselor about the pre-reques for the RN Program & was told what classes to take took them & then was told she needed to take different classs so she aked another counselor to double check & they said shewas fine but after all that and she was almost read to apply she found she still needed different classes, these advisors & counselors need to get together & stick to one decision a lot of students do not have the time or money to go back & fourth. The advisor should have made you aware so you could have taken care of the history class you tell the community college you applied & explain your situation & maye someone can help you out, you deserve that. I wish you luck & keep me posted ok.I hope everything works out for you ok.