UNCG sucks my big toe

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so do y'all remember when i had to fill out an application to get reclassified as an in-state student for tuition purposes? i talked about it here, and i also talked about it here. so i finally turned it in to terry in the MFA office in april, and he gave it to someone in the provost's office to look over for me. and so i get it back in mid-june, and there's a whole list of other stuff that they would like me to add to my application. (note in the earlier post all the crap i had already put together.) well, i had forgotten to make a copy of my lease (duh, rox), and hadn't made a copy of my federal tax returns, just my state ones, and i hadn't done the W2's either. no biggie.

but they also want (here's the kicker) letters of support from all my community involvement, and letters of employment verification from all the jobs i've held since i moved here. i can understand them wanting to verify my community involvement, but the job stuff? like my W2's and wage earning statements to date aren't enough to prove i work there? AND they want employment verification from my campus jobs. keep in mind, this application goes through the Graduate School Office. they're the people that sent me my campus assistantship letters in the first place. if they opened their phucking files, they'd see that i was employed on-campus, but no, i have to bother nancy and langenfeld for letters that are completely unnecessary.

so okay, i go through all the bullshit. i get employment verification letters from nancy, langenfeld, the HLC, and blandwood. the blandwood one is really important, because it's also where i volunteered for a long time before becoming a paid employee. it's also the one i feel the worst about, because david is so phreaking busy, since there should really be about three people doing all the jobs he does by himself, and i had to ask him to write this stupid letter for me. so okay, whatever. i also get a letter from the president of the local SAI chapter, verifying that i've helped them out with a lot of stuff, and they want to make me an official advisor of theirs. i can't get ahold of my choir director from last fall, so i photocopy the programs of the concerts i sang in and highlight my name on the copies, so they can see that i did sing. i also make a copy of the letter i just got from my congressman, because i wrote to him about something and he wrote back to say thanks or be polite or whatever it is congressmen say when you write to them.

so i copy all this shit, plus the rest of my wage earning statements to date (since a few months have passed since the last time i turned in the application, and i've gotten paid a few more times), and i figure i've jumped through all the hoops they wanted me to, how can i possibly be more residential than this?

and i got turned down.

how can this be? you might ask. rox, you've done everything they asked for and more! you turned in a stack of paper two inches thick, and you've bothered a lot of nice people to get them to support you, and besides, after all your hard work, you just deserve it! how could they possibly reject your application?

well, they did, and at first i was all set to appeal the decision, but i thought i'd call over to the MFA office first and see what they think. technically, i don't really *need* the in-state status, because i've got an out-of-state tuition waiver: it doesn't cost any more for me to go here just because i'm out of state. if i got reclassified as in-state, it would be good because then the MFA office would be able to give my financial aid money to someone else, that's all. so i call and i talk to brandon in the MFA office, and he's really nice and talks to me about this shizz for like, 20 minutes. and basically, we both come to the conclusion that even if i appealed the decision, they're still going to reject my application. why?

because i was still a resident of my parents' household for half of last year. because i was a phucking undergrad, and that meant my parents could claim me on their taxes for 2001, which they had every right to do. the committee people look at last year's taxes to determine what this year's taxes are going to look like, as stupid as that is. they don't take into account my personal statement, where i talk about moving out on my own for the first time, or all the volunteer work i've done, or how i've written to my NC congressmen about things or the jobs i have or how i've done every single other thing right. they're just looking at my taxes. so basically, every little thing that i worried about doing properly for the past year was completely useless. all the work i did and copies i made were completely useless. and it's not just me; i had to bother other people--nice people, busy people--to ask them to write me letters of support. some of them i had to bother two and three and four times, to take time out of their schedules and do me this silly, useless favor. and i'm thinking about how when terry took it over to the provost's office to get it previewed, and they made a bunch of suggestions that would help my application. how could they not have noticed this? and they didn't say anything, and i did all that extra work, and they could've just told me that i wouldn't get approved. phuck you, provost's office. phuck you anally, up the butt. anally.

i am so pissed off about this, and there is absolutely nothing i can do. there's no satisfaction, just a big pile of shit. there's no one that i can write a nasty letter to, and no change would get made even if i did.