Post Office GPA: 3.9

[willowisp]

Holy cow! I talked to the person from the registrar's office on Monday, afternoon her time. I got the readmission form in the mail today. They got the last snail-mail from Oswego to me pretty quickly as well. Now let's see if I've just jinxed myself.

The application was super easy and partially filled in. All I needed to give them was my name, address, last yer attended, year applying for, and major applying for. If I'd been kicked out it would have been a little more painful, but I left on academic warning.

One other thing I had to answer, however, was if I'd attended school between Oswego and now, and if so, provide a transcript. Unfortunately I did; one semester at a local institute of technology. If I crashed and burned my last two semesters in Oswego, then the best way to describe my semester at SUNY IT would involve a college-sized meteor and a napalm factory.

It was seriously tempting to just omit the bit about SUNY IT, but I hate lying. That, and then I'd spend the rest of my life worried they'd somehow find out. At any rate it's too late now; I faxed in a request for my SUNY IT transcript to be sent to Oswego and in my cover letter I included that I'd sent the request.

Tomorrow I send out the application via priority mail, signature requested, and I've already printed out the label. I'm just going to hope they ask for more information before rejecting me and/or that they have some sort of appeal process if they don't.

Andy says that looking at my transcript, it's obvious that all hell broke loose at that time in my life. I went from a solid B average (including two semesters on the dean's list) to academic warning, and that from that angle, the SUNY IT bit won't hurt me too much. I hope he's correct and Oswego just re-accepts me.

Comments

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

You did the right thing. If they had found out about your semester at SUNY IT, it would've been grounds for explusion.

Or. Okay, I don't know Oswego's rules--but if I had tried to apply to TCC without admitting to my Semester Of Fail and they had caught wind of it? I'd be kicked out on my ass. I'd imagine that's a common thing...academic honesty, etc.

[ljedi.livejournal.com]

I think that universities know that life sometimes interrupts things and people drop out for all sorts of reasons, and they'll be willing to work with you. Full disclosure is always the best policy.

Good luck! Rooting for you!

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree that I think it's highly unlikely you'll be rejected for your semester of academic fail. Though your napalm metaphor is beautiful. This has been the advice of my mother that I have held with me since I was a kid, and it's almost always right: You are an intelligent person. If you made a mistake, then lots of people made that mistake. And if lots of people made that mistake, odds are there's a way to handle it.

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

My less than stellar performance from when I first went to college didn't impact my ability to get into Albertus Magnus at all (though I did have a 4.0 from the current community college I'd just graduated from when I applied). All it did, really, was put a couple of C courses on my transcript which poked holes in my GPA even though they weren't used to fulfill graduation requirements, which was annoying.

Ironically, the community college I went to told me that if I wasn't transferring the credits, they didn't care about previous colleges/universities attended. And since those credits were over a decade old, and less than brilliant, I wasn't interested in transferring them when I went to the CC. Unfortunately, Albertus required me to supply them with the transcripts and required me to transfer them. Which irritated me. Especially when they didn't actually use any of them for any of my requirements.