Reply #5: it's all "she said/she said"

[northernlights]

And the conversations took place last year. Of course I will complain. I will start by talking to the Bio dept. coordinator. She's sort of an "outside observer" of the program, and knows the ins and outs of the university. The chances of any sort of refund are slim to none. I intend to take out the satellite advisor who screwed me over royally last year.

Hindsight is 20/20. I think they basically set me up to force me into the 4 year degree instead of the 2 year. I made the mistake of mentioning that I wanted to do the 2 year and then after working in field, *possibly* do the 2nd 2 years part time. I didn't know it back then, but I learned just a few weeks ago that with the 2 year degree, you can work 2 years and sit for the 4 year exam.

Problem is that at my age, I can't afford the 4 year program. I had no way of projecting back then what the real costs would be, not to mention that the economy would blow apart. As it is I need to be working as soon as possible and I'll be paying school debt until I'm 75 unless I sell my farm and can pay it off that way.

It's gonna be a shock to them, I guess, when I sell my farm, pay off the effing $10K, move to a trailer and write a very angry letter to the new president of the school, naming names. The MLT advisor is off the hook -- she's dying of cancer. But I intend to get the Rockland advisor. That woman is NOT an advisor. She's a sales liar, and nothing less.

If I'd been correctly advised by her, I would have taken basic chemistry and algebra 2 fall and spring. I might not even have needed algebra 2 -- I was an honours math student through algebra 2 in high school. But since it had been so long, she suggested I take an online exam to see where I fell before signing up for statistics. She neglected to mention that the score would go onto my official records and supercede my former grades. I didn't discover that until last spring, after they wouldn't let me apply for MLT, when it was too late. I also discovered, while taking the placement exam, that the "algebra 2" portion wasn't even algebra 2! It said it was trig, which I never took! I didn't even recognize the symbols!!!!

One fellow student swears the MLT program manager told her she could bypass basic chemistry and go straight into clinical. The MLT program manager has *never* told *anybody* that. I can't help but wonder if said message was "passed along" by the Rockland advisor. That poor woman (my former chem lab partner) dropped out after 4 weeks, when she realized she wasn't likely to make it through. The thing is, no refunds after 2 weeks. I've suspected she was set up ever since. If she'd taken basic chemistry last spring, she could have been in MLT this year too. So she's out the tuition plus set back a full year too.

Another wierd thing...last spring on an exam day, the anatomy professor (who is also director of training at the hospital where I expected to do my practical) approached me and asked if I was the one who had asked about clinicals. I hadn't, and had no idea what she was talking about. She looked puzzled and said she was sure my name had come up.

The next day, I mentioned it to the Rockland advisor, who claimed that the MLT advisor had put my name into consideration at a meeting. It didn't make sense, though, since I was still pre-MLT. So I went back to the anatomy professor and explained that I was just a beginner. According to her it was a big deal, since they were going to pay my tuition. Then I never heard anything again, and was afraid to ask about it. Now I wonder if the Rockland advisor is the one who put my name in, and caused me problems there too...