Strange SNHU Admissions E-mail

[Tedium]

I just got an e-mail from SNHU and it's actually a degree evaluation. It has all the credits I had transferred over in 2011 and what I have left to complete the degree I'd applied for back then. It gave me a schedule of required courses to take and everything. 

It's just weird because I never re-applied. Seems like an odd way of saying, "Hey! We haven't heard from you in a while. Come check us out if you still want to finish your degree with us!"

They worded it as if I had applied and all I needed to do was pay for courses and get started. 

11 years after the fact just seems a little awkward. Were they hoping I'd forget that I hadn't applied and think, "Oh gosh! I should hurry up and pay for these courses so I can get started!" 

What a strange marketing technique. I wonder if they're actually nabbing students that way?

[rachel83az]

Maybe someone read the year wrong and thought it was 2021 instead of 2011 for some reason? Either way, that is strange!

[bjcheung77]

Or it may be they're trying to reach out to those who were interested and in their "database", by chance that person they reached out to may not have completed their educational goal, they may look into SNHU again. One thing I remember why SNHU and WGU have such a high number of students is because of follow up...

[Tedium]

Jesus, man, you aren't lying. I remember I got the call that I had been accepted into their creative writing BA at 7pm CST, which means they were still in the office working at 8pm EST. That's nuts. They work and fight for every student they have.

My main problem was that the enrollment team seemed way too similar to how it sounds like they are at UMPI. They were paid 3rd party people, I believe, so they knew nothing about what they were promising. Hell, even the registrar had to admit their stupid rule (in 2011) about only accepting 5 courses or 15 hours of CBE/ACE/Whatever wasn't listed anywhere in the handbook. I was reading about all the awesome things people were doing on this forum and thought I'd found a way to do the same thing with a BA in English and Creative Writing Fiction. Yeah, fat chance.

That messed me up so bad. I did the dumb thing and kept enrolling in terms while I was appealing their unlisted rule. I was so demoralized and the courses were so short that I failed two terms worth of courses. I couldn't let it go, but I couldn't see the point in continuing if I couldn't test out of stuff and had to take their BS LL courses. I stupidly thought they would stop listening to me if I withdrew and wasn't a student anymore. I thought that since the rule wasn't listed anywhere visible to students that I could fight it and win. Absolutely stupid, I know. Big, expensive lesson learned.

Point being, if admissions and enrollment wouldn't have assured me that I could test out of 90 credits then I would not have enrolled. I'm glad their policy on ACE and credit by exam changed eventually, but that didn't help me at all at the time. Moral of the story: they are all salesman, regardless of the school, so always make sure you find out for sure from the registrar if your plan will work. Not admissions, not enrollment counselors, not your adviser. The registrar.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm still super pissed about that situation and how it was handled. Makes me want to throat punch someone when they send me little love notes like they didn't try their hardest to drive me nuts.

Alright. I feel a little better now. Still really antsy about my COSC evaluation and Capstone and I'm taking it out on SNHU. Lol, sorry.