I applied for the masters program at Dowling in Early Childhood Education....got a letter of acceptance, a financial aid package, and a phone call saying, 'Come down a register, you're all set.' So I go to register yesterday and I'm sitting with a graduate advisor, she opens my file and says, 'Oh, well, according to our standards, you don't technically have a real B.A.' WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN? I have a BA from Suny Stony Brook, HELLO!?!?!??! And then she proceeds to tell me that I need 21 MORE undergrad credits to enroll in their program and to 'go back to Suffolk or something.' I was like, EXCUSE ME? First of all, I can't GO BACK to Suffolk, because, um, I NEVER WENT THERE. And second of all, SCREW THAT! So I told her to stick it where the sun don't shine and marched my way on down to Stony Brook to enroll in their masters. ARRRGH! So mad! Why in HELL would you send me an acceptance letter, AND tell me to come register if YOU KNOW I CAN'T???
cluelessbride
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I work in graduate admissions - Rachel, there is something VERY wrong here. You should go to his person's boss and find out what happened. They SHOULD NEVER have accepted you if there was any question about your degree. THey can make a conditional acceptance (upon the completion of your undergrad degree) but that doesn't sound like what happened here.
I would also contact the legal deparment of the university and tell them you want a copy of your file.
prncssrachel
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Well, the way I felt was that I really did not want to go there at all anyway, but I thought it would be too late to get into Stony Brook. So I saw it as a blessing in disguise when it happened. Luckily, the people in the professional development office at Stony Brook were SO nice. Clueless, I will have to contact someone at Dowling. It seems ridiculous that they gave me a hard time. It's one thing to be deficient in certain areas, like, let's say I needed another math course, but it's another thing to tell me to go somewhere else and come back. I see no reason why I couldn't have taken those courses AT Dowling. But like I said, it was a blessing in disguise. Who wants to spend all that money anyway?
