Ignore if you don't want to hear a lot of pointless complaining on my part but I am so mad right now I could spit...
I just lost one of my interviews because one of my schools emailed 2 days ago to ask where my Physics II course was. I had taken Physics I at a CC and then, because I had to go back to work teaching, I took a graduate level physics course at a well known university online to get the rest of my 8 hours. I also had a Biophysics course from my undergraduate caseload for good measure.
Anyway, my other schools emailed me about the issue BEFORE the start of spring semester because it wasn't the normal PHY I/PHY II series, and all of them accepted the grad level course + biophysics combination for my second semester of Physics II. Since I had not heard from this school, and I had sent them a copy of what courses I was taking for the Spring semester, I assumed that I was fine.
According to this school, I'll go ahead and call them IL because I am not feeling tactful, I was supposed to have discerned that I needed another Physics course because they had not counted it in my science GPA. There were no emails, no flags on my status page etc. They also insinuated that the grad level physics course was an education course (because the majority of the students were in a master's in physics education program) which in terms of difficulty is like saying your Calculus class was the equivalent to elementary school math, and I was justifiably insulted. I even sent links to assignments so they could see it was physics, but I was told by the counselor that she didn't even bother checking those because she already knew it was an education class, even though I took it, not her.
I am most upset because if they had just said something 2 weeks ago, I could have signed up for the course for this semester, or at least not bought the plane ticket! Sorry for all the vitriol but it seems a cruel trick to play on me at this point in the game.
I did get to tell the woman though that their petty insistence on a very narrow interpretation of a physics course load was going to be to their detriment, not mine. Hmph!
And if any adcoms are reading this, I would like to state for the record that my dealings with MN, Wis and VA-MD have been nothing but professional and courteous, and for this I thank you. 🙂
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