Can you point me in the right direction?

[rachel83az]

And also, they just wrote me telling me of their requirements for enrollment. They need my high school diploma and university education from Argentina to be translated and sent by an evaluation service. I've been looking this up and it seems extremely expensive and just a bummer... I asked my mom to get ahold of my high school diploma in person (they don't have a website or anything, it's a very basic public school), maybe she can mail it to me. It's silly because FSU only asked for the plain transcripts, no fancy evaluations or anything. I just read on reddit that someone spent like $600 on WES and it doesn't seem fair, that's like six months worth of Sophia! I'll ask them if they have a waiver. And if they don't, are there any other options you can point me to in my situation? (I don't care much about the major at this point.) Or budget friendly translation/evaluation services that you recommend? Thanks!

I just wanted to address this because I didn't see it mentioned.

Depending on exactly who you're talking to, they're either very busy (and thus prone to confusion) or else they're very wrong.

They heard "international student" and missed or ignored that you already have an American Associate degree. This changes everything. Once you have an Associate degree, UMPI does not need your HS diploma, transcript, etc. And you only need to send in your Argentinian credits if you want UMPI to use them toward your degree. Otherwise, you can safely ignore them. Don't bother to ask for a waiver or anything. It's not needed. It's a different school system, in an entirely different country, and UMPI won't even know about your attendance if you don't send them an evaluation.

I wouldn't bother.

As you note, Sophia is way cheaper, and likely more relevant.

If someone does ask about why you didn't send in your "international" transcripts, you can always say that you were mistaken and that you don't have any credits to send them. Which would be true, though perhaps not in the same way that they'd understand.