Worried that my school is an idiot!!!

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I applied for school last February. I have 5 pre-reqs to take before I can get into the nursing program.... (I have a BS so a lot of credits have transferred)... anyway.. I applied... got accepted... then got accepted again??? Then I get a call from the school saying before they can accept me they need my transcripts from my other school... Ummmm. you already accepted me... and I sent those "official transcripts" with my application... well that's all fine and well... so then I am told I have to wait and register with all of the other freshmen... which was fine but I wanted to get into Anatomy and I knew that it would be full if I had to wait until the freshmen were able to register... so I talked with a counselor and she said I should be able to register according to how many credits I have (if I appealed my situation) but I would have to wait until the students who have already been attending register... So I went online the very first day you could register ( just to try hehe I'm resourceful like that) and it worked... these people have no friggin idea what is going on...

Then today... I get a call saying I need to come in for a meeting about registration and advising. I was like huh??? And she said.. I needed to come in and sit down with an advisor and go over what classes I will be taking this fall and how to go about registering... I told her that I was already registered... and she was like ...huh???:trout:

My husband thinks I should just tell them I already have my ADN and ask them to go ahead and give me my diploma.... they would never know the difference!!!!

I can't even begin to tell you how many repeat letters I get in the mail requesting I do something I've already done... I just got another one last week saying that the open house is coming up the end of July and I can come in and get my ID and look around blah blah blah... Um yeah.. I did that last month...

I realize they have a lot of students and I'm sure it is hard to keep track of everything everyone is doing.. but sheesh! Give me a break... How much money and time have they wasted on this crap??? Am I going to an idiot school or what?? Anyone else have these problems???

I'm sorry this is so long... I went off on a tangent.... thanks for listening if you got this far!

Take care

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There must be a rule that people who work in the admissions and registrar's office have to be idiots!

I tried registering for my statistics prereq and they were trying to tell me I couldn't because I didn't have "algebra" on my transcript. I had Calculus I, II, and III but since it didn't specifically say "algebra" they weren't going to let me! Idiots. I had to speak to her supervisor to get it fixed.

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MY ADN program requires a Child or Human development course. I have a BA in Elem Education which included a 2 hr Child Development. I noticed immediately that the degree description shows it as a 3 hr course. Apparently the school doesn't think I know anything about child development because they wouldn't accept it...but only after telling me it would be fine!

So the advisor (not a nurse and, who, obviously knows nothing about the program) says, "Oh yeah, that will be fine". I didn't trust her (I have a lot more stories to go with this one) and proceeded to email the Curriculum Director from the Nursing Department (so that I would have it in writing...always get it in writing). Curr. Dir says I'm right, that I would need to retake the course. So I emailed the Curr. Director's email to the advisor for posterity. The advisor emails me back saying she never said that (though I have that in writing too). The Curr. Dir. says she doesn't care if the advisor put it in writing or not, and that I wouldn't graduate with out it.

So I almost didn't take the class with 3 hrs, which would have made my acceptence into the program null and void. CYA - because nobody else cares.

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Specializes in ICCU - cardiac.

These are examples are so i thought that 'written confirmation' is so important. My counselor did the same thing with my 'official' transcripts. One day I fired off an email about the waitlist and found to my horror that I wasn't on the waitlist at all due to no transcripts. To their credit, the matter was taken care of that day and i was put on the waitlist as to day that I finished all my requirements and got accepted this fall. But had I not inquired about it, I wouldn't even know that i wasn't on the waitlist. I have learned to keep a record of all commumication in case another unexpected nightmare comes my way.

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I try to deal with advisors as little as possible. I used them the first year and ended up withdrawling from 3 classes that I didn't need and ended up with credits for another 2 that are absolutely useless to me! Our nursing dept tells us not to go to any advisors other than the nursing school advisors if you want the correct information!

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The nursing program I recently graduated from was within the same college I graduated from back in the 80's, with a different degree. Back then, I had received financial aid from someplace or other while attending. I knew that I could not apply any longer, they made that clear when I finished school way back then.

Imagine my surprise to receive a letter from the Financial Aid office at the start of my first semester (in nursing, of course), telling me that I did not qualify, would receive nothing, because of the prior degree. The SURPRISE was.....I hadn't applied.

I took the time to go to the Financial Aid office, tell them about the letter, and that I should be taken off of whatever list I was on, as it was obviously a colossal waste of resources and time (printing, stuffing, postage).

I got another letter the next semester.

And another letter every single semester I attended, LOL....always telling me that I didn't qualify for something I hadn't even applied for.

The best part was getting a letter AFTER GRADUATION telling me the same for the following semester.

Umm....I graduated, folks. Think I'll get another one in the Fall, just in case???

LOL!

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My husband thinks I should just tell them I already have my ADN and ask them to go ahead and give me my diploma.... they would never know the difference!!!!
:roll Thanks for the laugh!!

No, it's not just your school. It seems like there is always a hoop to jump through or a hurdle to jump over. Just last week I had another big fiasco trying to register for fall semester - the nursing department didn't fax over some documents to admissions. It will all be worth it in the end. Hang in there.

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Imagine my surprise to receive a letter from the Financial Aid office at the start of my first semester (in nursing, of course), telling me that I did not qualify, would receive nothing, because of the prior degree. The SURPRISE was.....I hadn't applied.

HA! The EXACT same thing happened to me. Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing??

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

sounds like my school too. they must all be the same. I am about to graduate in 15 days from the ADN program....do you know I still have never gotten a letter telling me I was accepted and when I was starting. Not only that...my SIL graduated from my school 2 years ago with her assoc. degree and is only one semester away from her bachelors at the university...every semester she gets the "red card" from the financial aid office telling her that her financial aid process has stopped and she needs to contact them...well duh it has stopped....she does not even attend that school anymore...i swear you have to be totally blind to the world to work in the financial aid or admissions office at any college. Don't even get me started on the admin. for our nursing program....thats whole other ball game....glad I am almost done...:lol_hitti

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:lol WOW I'm glad my school is a "nursing ONLY" branch of another university, so all our advisors are only for the nursing dept. However this will be my first year, so I hope I don't end up with any suprizes.

~Christin

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Specializes in NA - 100 years ago.

Part of the graduation requirements for any school is that you learn to navigate through their BS. (And I don't mean a BS degree.) It prepares you for "real" life. ;)

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Specializes in Education, Administration, Magnet.

I was reading where everybody was from, because all of those stories sound just like my school.:lol2:

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