I have received one of those emails that makes you think "ohhhhh shit." This one had the title "you are not eligible to graduate". Inside it said that I am missing 70 credit points worth of subjects....the same subjects that I did while in Spain. So the deal is: the Spanish university *still* haven't sent over my transcripts, and haven't really been looking into it. I understand, it's a new academic year already, and I only finished at that university in May, did my exam in June, passed, so naturally 4 months is how long a university takes to do nothing and to promise to do something. Until I get those transcripts I won't be graduating. And that fucks my 2010 right up. I had planned on doing my masters. I had planned on still being a student and moving on with my life.
I am not worried in the slightest, though, because I have a valid excuse and it really is not my fault, and that I know of two (probably three) other students who still haven't received their transcripts either and expect to graduate soon. Unfortunately they haven't got the nasty email yet.
So I have fired off an email to the Australian exchange office, to the admin here that sent me the email in the first place, and it's Friday night and nothing is going to be done until Monday. Spain will be 8 hours behind, so nothing will be done until Tuesday at the earliest.
I expect to have an interesting couple of emails waiting for me on Monday.
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Update. My exchange coordinator has fled the country for work purposes. She'll be back in October.
Ah! Fled the country? Sucks. Um...is there anyone else you can talk to in the meantime? Sure it should be easy to call the admissions office at the University in Spain and request transcripts? Language barrier might make that hard...?
My uni here have asked Madrid to speed it up twice on my behalf and I have the email responses to know that it actually happened, and twice Madrid said "we'll send them in September."
On the bright side, I now know of two other friends who have received the same email! One from Madrid as well, another from Argentina (I think). Still, this comes as a surprise to my uni, even though this year it seems quite common.
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