Is it possible Engineering Admissions made a mistake?

Thelma2
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:37:30 +0000

OH MY GOSH! What a roller coaster of emotions you all must be experiencing. @-) Yay! That she was accepted. Yay that you called to find out. I honestly hope that this did not hinder her ability for awards for instate tuition waiver. Stay on them. Somethimes, that is just what you have to do.

Two years ago, my daughter was going out of state. In June, right after she graduated and two weeks before her orientation and freshman camp, I received an email about a refund from housing, from the university. I logged into the portal and their was no explanation. So, I decided to make a call. Long story short, the university had sent out an email to prospective students who had applied, but not accepted the admissions decision. One girl, with the same name as my daughter, even same midddle initial but different email address, replied to the email that she had accepted admissions elsewhere and for the university to not email her anymore. So, some person totally cancels my daughters admissions, without a UIN number or anything. My daughter had accepted in Octover, had been awarded scholarship monies for instate tuition, taken out of her orientation and freshman camp, and housing had already given her room assignment to someone else.

Thing is, all of this transpired in April and we didn’t get an email until JUNE! with any clue that this was happening. It took a lot of phone calls and going over heads to get everything back as it should be. Even the housing department at first said they would not displace the person they had put in her room without the girls consent, which didn’t go over well with anyone, since my daughter and the roommate were friends.

Universities are not there for customer service and it took us being dilligent in talking with Panhellenic (yea, that was cancelled to), the bursar, housing, camp, etc. to make sure it all was straitened out with each department. There was not one person to oversee it all except ourselves. Wishing you all the best and GOOD LUCK!