Declare graduation or not?

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I fulfilled all of the curriculum requirements for my BSBA Management last December. I didn't bother paying the fees or doing the paperwork to "declare" that I was done with my degree. I have since moved on to an informal post bacc by changing majors to BIO. The school knows that I have fulfilled the requirements of a degree since they made me ineligible for any grants this year. The whole reason I put it off was to see if I could still get any free money (which is unavailable after you receive a degree). Do I have to declare in order to get something on my transcript that says that I was post bacc as of a certain date? I just want to make sure that my Post Bacc section of the AACOMAS application reflects the 4.0 that I did not have during the rest of my undergrad.

Thanks

 

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I fulfilled all of the curriculum requirements for my BSBA Management last December. I didn't bother paying the fees or doing the paperwork to "declare" that I was done with my degree. I have since moved on to an informal post bacc by changing majors to BIO. The school knows that I have fulfilled the requirements of a degree since they made me ineligible for any grants this year. The whole reason I put it off was to see if I could still get any free money (which is unavailable after you receive a degree). Do I have to declare in order to get something on my transcript that says that I was post bacc as of a certain date? I just want to make sure that my Post Bacc section of the AACOMAS application reflects the 4.0 that I did not have during the rest of my undergrad.

Thanks

Well, technically although you have fulfilled requirements, until the school confer you the bachelor degree, you still technically did not graduate from college (and if you don't have your bachelor, it's hard to claim to be doing your postbac). Now whether you are eligible for grants is a different story.

*just like how PhD students who successfully defend their thesis have fulfilled all the requirements but they are not yet "PhDs" or "doctors" until the school confers the degree upon them.

Since you didn't fill out the necessary paperwork, you're still technically an undergrad. In most schools, the office of financial aid is seperate from the registrar office (and operates under different rules and usually different hierarchy)

 

[Helen Wheels]

Honestly, if I were you I would contact the school and complete whatever is needed to get your degree officially "awarded." Many med schools require that you have been awarded a Bachelor's degree prior to matriculation. You don't want a technicality like this to give you headaches down the road. It can also affect you if you need to get a job before med school for some reason.