On March 6, I went to the Admissions and Records office at Mission College, and turned in two separate things:
- An “Application for Degree” form, with math course substitutions from other institutions signed off by the chairman of the math department, and a completed worksheet (the application deadline was March 7)
- A transcript from De Anza College, a request for transcript evaluation, a letter explaining that a course I took last year was a retake of a course I received a poor grade in 25 years ago, and copies of the relevant course catalog pages with descriptions of those two courses
The staff member asked if these two things belonged together, and I explained that they were separate.
I asked when I could get the result of the transcript evaluation, and was told that it would be ready in a week. I asked when my transcript would show my degree, since I need that to register for more classes at the university, and she said she didn’t know.
I returned to the A&R office on March 13. They couldn’t find my transcript evaluation, and then told me that it takes two weeks.
I returned to the A&R office today (March 20). Once again, they couldn’t find my transcript evaluation. After a while, they found someone who was able to find my transcript evaluation paperwork, which had been misfiled, and so hadn’t even started to be processed.
Looking through the paperwork, she discovered that my Application for Degree paperwork had been attached to the transcript evaluation paperwork, rather than having been put in the right place for degree processing. She was concerned that it had missed the deadline, and had to go talk to an evaluator who agreed to process it even though it was “late”.
She said that I could pick up the completed transcript evaluation late this afternoon or tomorrow.