Back to school mess ups
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Rants
School is important, I know, I get told that all the time. And yes I do understand that it is important. However, ever since I returned home from my mission I have had nothing but bad luck getting into school.
1st try, provo colledge. I was accepted, but they didn’t have courses I wanted to take, and infact tried to talk me into taking classes I had no desire to take. later I learned they were short in those classes. man those guys were pushy.
2nd try, BYU. first off, BYU’s website is a joke. I recently went back and found the only way to actually get around their site is by going through their crappy HTML and javascript encrusted site. than the acceptance letter. oh wow, they got it too me too late for me to sign up for any of their classes. the people who tried to “help” were stuck up snobs. frankly, I’m glad I didn’t go there.
3rd, SLCC. they ran into a small problem that BYU ran into as well. for some reason the state of Utah had me down as a non U.S. citizen and there for my semester of 3 classes was going to cost me about $4000 dollars. hmm, doesn’t seem fair.
4th try. Again SLCC, and again, non-U.S. citizen. however, after my birth certificate and valid drivers license wasn’t enough, a letter from my mission presidet seemed to do the trick. still I had to drop a class because they couldn’t offer it to a non-U.S. citizen.
well now I”m on my 5th try. again SLCC. the people at SLCC are super friendly (a lot more than I can say about the people at BYU) however, this time I ran into some issues as well. I had signed up for a math and english class along with a web page design class.
my english teacher resigned and the class was dropped due to lack of teacher. my math class was given to a non-U.S. citizen version of me which I later recieved an e-mail for apologizing that they had messed up and they were sorry but the class is now full.
for being institutions of education, there are not a lot of smart people running schools these days. I guess the nice thing is my fees will be next to nothing this year, but now I have another semester to take on later. goo!
2 Comments to Back to school mess ups
I noticed you didn’t try the true largest school in Utah County…UVU.
I find it hilarious that a letter from your Mission President will confirm that you are a US Citizen, but not government issued IDs or Birth Cerificates.
Do you live in an LDS based community?
hahaha. I had some similar problems when I was at SUU, but nothing like this… hehe.
August 21, 2008