Prepoceros

UH is frustrating me right now. It’s mostly not their fault, just an unfortunate bureaucratic pile-up, but it’s wreaking havoc on my class schedule.

I got my acceptance letter (yay) in the mail about a week ago. Registration for returning students started in November, so many of the classes I wanted to take were already full, but there were still enough open seats out there for me to flesh out a decent schedule. When I tried to enroll, however, the online enrollment thingy cheerfully informed me that there was a stop on my enrollment: I didn’t have test scores on record that would exempt me from the Texas Success Initiative.

This is apparently some sort of requirement you have to meet before you can enroll at a public school in Texas. There are a million ways to get an exemption, like having an (old) SAT score over 1070 (easy enough, except that the score must be less than five years old; I took the SAT in 1999), or having a TAAS/TAKS score above some mediocre number (those tests are taken by public school students; I went to private school). There IS an exemption for transfer students from private or out-of-state colleges who have completed college-level work. I have completed college-level work. Two years’ worth. They obviously know this*, since they admitted me as a junior. There should not be a stop on my enrollment.

I tried to call and correct the problem, but the office was closed. All the university offices are closed, in fact, until *January 2nd*. I’ve left them a message, and I plan to call back at 8 AM on the 2nd, but in the meantime classes are closing left and right. There is exactly one Classics course still open (Epic Masculinity—yuck), and it has three seats left. Who wants to bet there’ll be *no* classes left at all in my major when I finally get to enroll a week from now**?

Fortunately the Latin classes, which I absolutely need to take, are only about half full. Besides that, though, my schedule will probably be a mix of whatever scraps I can cobble together. Grrrrr.

In short, classes are filling up quickly, and I’m being prevented from enrolling for *two weeks* because of a stop that shouldn’t be there in the first place. I’m trying not to be pessimistic, but this isn’t a great start to my relationship with UH. I’m hoping this isn’t an indicator of worse messes to come. Grumble grumble.

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* What I’m guessing happened is that no one has done an official “transcript review”yet, as my seventy-some-odd transfer hours aren’t showing up either. Grumble.

** If then. I have very little faith in the system.

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