Felt a bit unhappy with my UMPI application experience

[kaa314]

I applied online 2 months back and set up a meeting with an admissions counselor, but she was unexpectedly out of the office and I never got a callback from her or her colleagues.

Reading around, I got the impression the counselor wasn't too helpful, so I went ahead and submitted my documents on my own and followed up a couple of times. It's been over ten years since I finished high school, and I also transferred between universities at one point. I'm an international student and don't need financial aid, but the school still wanted transcripts from all the places I studied which is very difficult to obtain given I have studied in multiple countries and I have lost access to some of the login portals.

I found out from others that UMPI doesn't always require all your transcripts if you're not applying for financial aid. So, I let them know I don't need aid and asked if they could let me off the hook for sending every single transcript. I'd already sent them transcript copies from each school and the official one from the university where I graduated via Parchment.

But sorting this out took them about a month, with my emails getting shuffled around between different people. When I finally got an answer, they said I didn't need all my transcripts after all, but I could only start classes in March.

I'm a little frustrated because I was on top of my documentation well before the deadline, but now I'm stuck waiting to start until March because they only sort it out after the deadline.


Sigh...