landrun
8/9/2011, 06:36 PM
I've never been in court in my life except as a juror. So I'm wondering if I'm just wasting my time trying to get what I've paid for here?
I'm 41, working on finishing my degree and every time I turn around I'm told that I have to retake another class for xxxx reason before I graduate.
Let me make this clear at the start. I've finished. I've taken every class AT LEAST ONCE and passed with good/great grades. But I've been denied credit for classes over and over. I've taken so many classed over again its offensive. My adviser mocked me saying I have enough hours to have TWO BA degrees. It infuriates me! Because it is true.
Anyway, I've finally went through my graduation meeting with the graduation adviser and was given a list of 3 classes I had to finish before graduating. She initialed the sheet and my personal adviser and I signed off on a formal sheet.
One of the classes I had to take was a physics class. But I was allowed to transfer it in from a junior college where I took the first physics class. So, that would make 2 Physics classes completing my required science sequence. The other classes that I needed I took at the university. So, all three classes were completed this summer in the last 8 weeks. One class I transferred in and 2 I took at the school I'm graduating from.
Well, I requested that another official copy of my transcript from the junior college be sent back to the school I'm graduating from so I can get credit for my final class. But sure enough!!!... the first physics class I took doesn't appear on the latest transcript! Neither does a US history class I took years ago! Both of these classes were transferred in and accepted in 2006 to my current University I'm graduating from. I have a copy of my transcript from my university where it shows that is the case. In fact, had the original physics class not been accepted, I would have had to take the second class I'm transferring in now, PLUS the original one, from my current university. But the graduation adviser told me because the first physics class was transferred in, I could transfer the second one in from the same university. It is obvious I took the class, passed it and transferred it in.
(How you can get two official transcript from the same school at two different times and have them list different classes is beyond me!)
This is the type of stuff that has been used to force me to retake the classes over and over. I can seem seizing upon this to say "hey! The US history class and the first physics class aren't on this transcript anymore. You have to retake them!" (Actually, I'll be retaking the US history class FOR THE THIRD TIME because I originally took it in Oklahoma. But it was rejected in Georgia and I had to retake again once I moved here because my US History class in Oklahoma didn't include any 'Georgia' history - that was the excuse!!)
At any rate, every time I turn around I have to take a class over... again! It's becoming the biggest scam I've ever had to deal with and I'm beginning to think that no matter what I do these people will NEVER LET ME OUT!! :mad:
I make great grades - that's what happens when you have to pay your own way. I've drove an hour and 45 minutes one way to the college for years. I've done my time. Paid for and took my classes. I've spent hours and weekends away from my family locked up in my little office at the house doing school work. All I want is to be given credit for the classes I've already taken! That's all. Sooner or later I feel like I should be given credit for the grades I've made!!
At this point I honestly feel that if they try to make me retake more classes then their word means nothing. At the end of this semester, they'll just find another reason to deny me a degree.... again... and force me to retake more classes I've taken in the past. This is immoral!! Blatantly wrong!
So, is there anything you can do?? I have no idea how it would work. But there would have to be some law to protect the student. - which in reality is a consumer. I'm paying for a service you provide. If I give you real money and fulfill my obligations, isn't there some legal way they have to fulfill theirs in giving me what I've paid for?? How can they just flippantly decided to deny me credit for classes I've taken etc... I'm so sick of it!
Sooner or later you have to give the consumer what they paid for. There has to be some sort of legal action I could take. Am I wrong here? If I were to go to court am I wasting my time or can you actually win a case like this?
I'm 41, working on finishing my degree and every time I turn around I'm told that I have to retake another class for xxxx reason before I graduate.
Let me make this clear at the start. I've finished. I've taken every class AT LEAST ONCE and passed with good/great grades. But I've been denied credit for classes over and over. I've taken so many classed over again its offensive. My adviser mocked me saying I have enough hours to have TWO BA degrees. It infuriates me! Because it is true.
Anyway, I've finally went through my graduation meeting with the graduation adviser and was given a list of 3 classes I had to finish before graduating. She initialed the sheet and my personal adviser and I signed off on a formal sheet.
One of the classes I had to take was a physics class. But I was allowed to transfer it in from a junior college where I took the first physics class. So, that would make 2 Physics classes completing my required science sequence. The other classes that I needed I took at the university. So, all three classes were completed this summer in the last 8 weeks. One class I transferred in and 2 I took at the school I'm graduating from.
Well, I requested that another official copy of my transcript from the junior college be sent back to the school I'm graduating from so I can get credit for my final class. But sure enough!!!... the first physics class I took doesn't appear on the latest transcript! Neither does a US history class I took years ago! Both of these classes were transferred in and accepted in 2006 to my current University I'm graduating from. I have a copy of my transcript from my university where it shows that is the case. In fact, had the original physics class not been accepted, I would have had to take the second class I'm transferring in now, PLUS the original one, from my current university. But the graduation adviser told me because the first physics class was transferred in, I could transfer the second one in from the same university. It is obvious I took the class, passed it and transferred it in.
(How you can get two official transcript from the same school at two different times and have them list different classes is beyond me!)
This is the type of stuff that has been used to force me to retake the classes over and over. I can seem seizing upon this to say "hey! The US history class and the first physics class aren't on this transcript anymore. You have to retake them!" (Actually, I'll be retaking the US history class FOR THE THIRD TIME because I originally took it in Oklahoma. But it was rejected in Georgia and I had to retake again once I moved here because my US History class in Oklahoma didn't include any 'Georgia' history - that was the excuse!!)
At any rate, every time I turn around I have to take a class over... again! It's becoming the biggest scam I've ever had to deal with and I'm beginning to think that no matter what I do these people will NEVER LET ME OUT!! :mad:
I make great grades - that's what happens when you have to pay your own way. I've drove an hour and 45 minutes one way to the college for years. I've done my time. Paid for and took my classes. I've spent hours and weekends away from my family locked up in my little office at the house doing school work. All I want is to be given credit for the classes I've already taken! That's all. Sooner or later I feel like I should be given credit for the grades I've made!!
At this point I honestly feel that if they try to make me retake more classes then their word means nothing. At the end of this semester, they'll just find another reason to deny me a degree.... again... and force me to retake more classes I've taken in the past. This is immoral!! Blatantly wrong!
So, is there anything you can do?? I have no idea how it would work. But there would have to be some law to protect the student. - which in reality is a consumer. I'm paying for a service you provide. If I give you real money and fulfill my obligations, isn't there some legal way they have to fulfill theirs in giving me what I've paid for?? How can they just flippantly decided to deny me credit for classes I've taken etc... I'm so sick of it!
Sooner or later you have to give the consumer what they paid for. There has to be some sort of legal action I could take. Am I wrong here? If I were to go to court am I wasting my time or can you actually win a case like this?