<p>Gee I’m sorry to hear about your story janie, hope that someone at that school realizes how they could consider employing her.</p>
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It was a joke! Good grief, some people are a bit too serious sometimes…</p>
<p>Letsee, I have two stories.</p>
<p>Occidental sent me a card trying to recruit me for athletics (football). They gave me a card to fill out with my position, how much I can bench press, how fast I can spring 40 yards etc. I’ve never been on the football team at my school.</p>
<p>St. Josephs sent me two letters that arrived in my mailbox on the same day. One of them offered me a scholarship for 40-80k over 4 years, while the other letter offered me a scholarship of 28-36k over 4 years.
Each of the letters also had that fake ink that makes it look like the signature was written by hand. The address on the envelopes were written “by hand” as well, but I compared the envelopes and they were written exactly the same. Morons. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Azusa sent me a letter addressed to Mr. Brennan Andrews. Unfortunately, I’m a girl…That ****ed me off, I mean, if you want me to come to your school, at least take a little time to figure out what sex I am!</p>
<p>so, university of Florida. I’m in state and we have an electronic transcript system. On the application they stated that they prefer to have transcripts sent on-line. I went to the guidance office at my HS and had them sent. No problem, right? Wrong. It took 6 tries sending them, as well as a few well placed call at the state board of education to get them to OPEN THE FREAKIN EMAIL. And this didn’t just happen to me, it happened to 2 other people at my school. Luckily, 2 of us got accepted, which serves at a little bit of consolation for all of the work required to finally complete the application. And i got an apology letter for the “inconvenience.” ahh, college applications.</p>
<p>I second Riverside Community College.</p>
<p>My friend applied for a student loan in February. She waited a couple weeks, and when she didn’t get any information, she went in to the FA office to talk to someone about it. She was told that she hadn’t circled which campus the funds were for (Riverside, Norco or Moreno Valley), so they couldn’t process it! So she circled it and waited again. NOTHING came for three weeks. So she went back and was told to be patient and come back in five (!) weeks. Mind you, this is a student loan for this semester and it’s now approaching mid-April. She went in again last week and was told that they had FORGOTTEN TO SEND THE FORM IN, and she’d have to wait another couple weeks for them to process it, and they were VERY sorry. Uh huh. So she’ll get her spring semester loan when, on finals?</p>
<p>They’ve also given me no END of conflicting information about the IGETC requirements and how I’m doing on fulfilling them, as well as being generally useless in the face of practical questions. </p>
<p>UCSC is a close second, there, with being INCREDIBLY difficult with official transcript ordering. Everything ELSE was online at the time, why did I have to fax my application and go through a third-party service to pay by credit card?</p>
<p>isn’t Riverside Community College the one featured in the movie “Waiting.”</p>
<p>Great, great movie. Favorite at the restaurant where I work. Dean went to Riverside for two years, then went to Hope U.</p>
<p>I agree with those who had trouble with University of Chicago. I sent in my application about 2 weeks before the deadline. They sent me an email saying everything was fine, they received all my documents and I’m good to go. I requested an interview and 2 weeks after I was supposed to hear from someone. I called and they told me since so many people were asking for interviews I needed to wait a little longer. A week later I got an email telling me I wasn’t getting an interview after all, grrr. Then in March I got an email telling me that my English teacher letter of recommendation and my transcript hadn’t been received. I had sent them mid-December. Needless to say I was quite ****ed off. I sent everything right away but since admissions decisions was only a month away I didn’t get in. It made me so mad that they sent me that email telling me I’m good, and then 2 months later send one saying sorry nope.</p>
<p>Well I haven’t had anything really stupid happen to me. Tulane did misspell my last name on the acceptance letter but that was forgiveable. About a few years ago though something really funny happened to one of my sisters.</p>
<p>She was accepted into both University of Alaska Southeast and Central Washington. She chose Central Washington and went there for all four years. For some strange reason, UAS put her on the Dean’s List for both Freshman and Sophomore year. They also kept sending her information about class registration and reminders that her guidance counselor had an appointment to see her. It took them two years but they finally stopped sending us information about how well my sister was doing. So my sister joked that she is one of the few people in history to make the Dean’s list at two schools in two different states!</p>
<p>USC – the online app was atrocious. </p>
<p>(1) In Part I, they tell you to choose 2 majors. Any two. In Part II, they say, choose any two majors, but you can’t apply to the engineering school unless you put it as choice 1. I put engineering as choice 2 in my first part – they never said I couldn’t.</p>
<p>(2) While I was working on my app, I discovered that pages kept going blank on me – pages I knew I had already filled out! Every time I logged out and logged in the next day, random pages would go missing.</p>
<p>(3) So finally, I decided to do the entire app again from the first page just to check that everything I put there was actually there, and this time I knew that I had everything filled out. I submitted the application and went back to review my app to make sure what I had typed there before was still there. My entire 3 pages worth of activities and awards had gone blank, and the contents of the text box that once contained my extracurriculars now said, and I quote, “1073741837.”</p>
<p>(4) Luckily my dad works in downtown LA and was able to hand-deliver a hard copy of my application to USC the next day. About a week later, I found out that I got into Princeton, so I wrote a letter to withdraw my USC app. A month after that, I received an acceptance package from USC offering me a full ride. Then I realized that I forgot to send in any transcripts – not even unofficial ones – and they accepted me anyway.</p>
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Even at USC, they still treat you like a number. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Our Princeton visit was the worst. The tour groups gathered in some dark basement area (Where there’s a desk which may have been called a welcome center, but I could be wrong about that). A poor girl and her father had obviously come in from somewhere far away on the train and had their luggage with them. No one, not the tour guide or person behind the desk in the basement, offered to store their suitcases somewhere for them, so during the whole tour we heard the “clickety clack” of the wheels on the sidewalk as they lugged them along. Then, the guide kept comparing Princeton’s attributes to Yale’s, and not always completely favorably. We loved how the guide talked at length about some cannon that was no longer there. Lastly, the woman who spoke at the information session was almost a corpse. You got the impression she was going to gather all of her strength to tell you about Princeton and then die immediately afterward. She was monotonous and completely unenthusiastic. I could go on, but I’m scared of the Princeton fans on CC.</p>
<p>Still, my son would go in a heartbeat if he got in. We think this must have been a fluke. The school can’t maintain such a stellar reputation on fumes. Though, had it not been Princeton, we would definitely have crossed it right off his list.</p>
<p>I loved GFG’s post. It may be straying from the original point of this thread, but I would say that the one blunder that many colleges consistently make is not policing their student ambassadors enough.
We’ve seen student tour guides who were hung over, guides who admitted that they never go into the university library, guides who told us (parents and prospective students alike) that “dope can definitely be found on this campus,” and guides who took us to their own dorm room, which was a pig sty.</p>
<p>The Princeton tour was the absolute worst! We went on it twice, hoping that the first time was a fluke. It was not.</p>
<p>All that name-dropping made me sick. Plus, I happen to know a lot about Princeton, and the tour guides spouted a lot of inaccuracies and promoted (also inaccurate) campus legends. The first guide was so pompous and self-absorbed that I couldn’t even look at him by the end of the tour. The second one, a woman, was better, but the group was so large and she made no effort to sufficiently raise her voice that people had to push their way to the front to hear her. She used the same kind of name-dropping and stories that the first had. The only building interior on the tour was the chapel - hardly the primary interest of most prospective students. (As an interesting side note: Frist, where the tours start, is the “hospital” for “House.”)</p>
<p>My d. didn’t get in, so it didn’t matter in the end, but I can imagine that the tours can push a good number of accepted students away from Princeton and to another, equally prestigious school. </p>
<p>Don’t let the tours fool you, though. Princeton is a fantastic place for undergraduates and graduates alike.</p>
<p>It is completely true that schools should police their student ambassadors. We visited SUNY Environmental Science a couple of weeks ago and the SA completely ruined the trip. She was relentlessly negative and my husband (a level-headed guy) is convinced that she was stoned. The girl couldn’t answer any questions and she sucked the life out of the entire tour group. My daughter had been very high on this school for a lot of reasons and it took a great deal of courage on her part to fill out the evaluation honestly when it arrived in the mail. I guess there’s no point in her applying there now, but I think she did the right thing.</p>
<p>I had the exact same experience with U of Wisconsin. I filed early in January. Waited and waited. The student portal kept showing incomplete. By Mar. 27th, I could not wait anymore, and I sent them a few emails. (Couldn’t get through the phone) On Mar. 31st, the portal finally says Application complete! But I received a rejection letter dated April 1st! So, did they review my app in one day? It’s so unfair. Do you know how much time I spent on an application, with essays and stuffs?</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t mind a guide being upfront and frank when asked, but he/she should definitely present it diplomatically.</p>
<p>The stuff you see on some facebook groups concerning alcohol/party habits is amazing… and if I suspected something was going on (and just wanted to be assured that though substance (ab)use occurred it never got out of hand) but the tour guide denied it, then I wouldn’t be reassured.</p>
<p>Personally I just can’t stand the way some of my state’s schools carry and market themselves. YOU SHOULD TOTALLY JOIN US FOR OUR SPA AND GYM FACILITIES OVERLOOKING THE BEAUTIFUL VISTAS OF MAINE’S FORESTS. One promotional letter questioned (to paraphrase) why I would ever need to apply anywhere else, since they boasted they had all the fields and majors I could ever want. Except they didn’t have linguistics. Instead of reassuring me how I could craft and weave my own linguistics-related major by perhaps combining several of their existing disciplines, they only reassured me I would be a bad fit. I didn’t like the way they promoted their Honors College either.</p>
<p>I might still need to consider them in case my financial aid package doesn’t follow through though, so I shan’t trash them too much here.</p>
<p>The dumbest thing ever was when Stanford decided to only send people rejection emails and not letters in order to be environmentally conscious (thought they often send out huge packets that always end up in the trash) and to not remind anyone of their rejection (conceited much?).</p>
<p>Bard: Known for being a school interested in arts, admissions criteria include “talent, ability.” When I called to ask about send my portfolio, I was told “We don’t care about that.” When I called to tell them I wasn’t after all going to apply for financial aid, I was told, before I even finished speaking, “We don’t care.” !!! Before a tour for accepted students we were given a talk that would have been appropriate for 5 year olds. </p>
<p>Anonymous VERY small school:</p>
<p>We dropped in for a visit. They knew we were coming. The admissions counsellor who had been in contact with me, didn’t recognize my name and thought I was a prospective student, rather than admitted. When I told her I was accepted already and gave my name again, say, Olivia Jones, admissions counsellor said, “Oh of course! JANE Jones!” pretending that she remembered me. And it got weirder from there, but enough said.</p>
<p>NYU: I sent them my transcripts. They claimed they didn’t have it, and requested my midterms. I sent my midterms. They claimed they didn’t have it. I sent my midterms again. They claimed they didn’t have it, again. I scanned my midterms and emailed them to the adcom I was speaking with. She requested I apply for the next term, free of charge and didn’t have to submit the essays. They lost my application and had to apply the next semester.
Repeat steps.
Two years later, I was still applying for the same application.
I was rejected.</p>