Thanks for all the ideas and sympathy.
Rob came home with a few ideas (I was more distraught about this than my own transfer problems back in the day...ironically, he ended up cheering me up):
In order of his preference:
Best: see if the crappy community college here (that IS accepted by other Utah schools) will take any and get an Associates from them.
Second: see if there is another correspondence program that would be better recognized (like Wayne said).
Third: (like Diana suggested) go on to get a Bachelor’s (after first making sure it’ll be accepted by the Master’s programs that he’s interested in) from U of P and then transfer. (It’s worst to him because of his discovery of how poor their rep seems to be…but ultimately it achieves his objective: a Bachelor’s degree.)
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Pres H said to get an education - not a degree ;)
Anyway, I just realzed that my comment never posted yesterday - so here it is:
Last week I saw the following on Roeanne's frig:
“Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Be happy. Don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”
by Guess Who? (Right Pres H!)
well, I've had to jump through a few hoops when I transfered to BYU. They are quite picky with where you get your degrees from. I don't think it's bad, to say the least. Since the level of quality varies so greatly from place to place, I think it's just one way to assure that those they accept are ready to take on the load coming their way.
As another comforting thought: BYU wasn't accepting me at first, because I didn't have the equivalent of a high school degree to them. So, I had to attend LDS Business College first, and then was allowed to transfer. Needless to say I kicked trash once at BYU. My point here is, even if Rob would have to start from scratch, if he actually knows his stuff, he could probably test out of a lot of classes, and take big loads of GE classes, and maybe redo the whole thing in 2 semesters or so. If he learned what he needs to know, he definitely didn't waste time, and even with a worst case scenario could really speed things up.
It worked for me, because I knew far more from my German education than the average high school graduate did, and so most of my GE classes were a breeze!
Things will be ok somehow I'm sure.
FRan
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