Monday, November 15, 2004

Skool kant spel

Any idea how many mistakes can show up on one transcript? At least 4...
  1. Misspelled: "Indentification Number" (notice the extra 'n' at the beginning.) I wouldn't be surprised if it's misspelled on everyone's in the state.
  2. Misspelled: "Brigham Young University" I can't remember how they spelled it off the top of my head, but I know it wasn't right. Come to think of it, that online health class I took through there (best class ever) didn't require me to enroll as a BYU student, so why is this even on my transcript?
  3. Wrong: Total Credits vs. GPA Credits As stated in the box a half-inch to the right of this, all letter grades count toward the student's GPA. I have 49 semester credits, or 24.5 credits... shouldn't that mean I have the same number of credits counting toward my GPA?
  4. Weird: (WEB) vs. #CC These two notations appear before my online courses, with Health being represented with "(WEB)" and PE and History shown with a #CC. Since I took them through the same place, one might assume they would have the same symbol.
I'm sure there are more errors I haven't found yet. I would reccomend ordering an extra transcript to look over before sending them out to colleges, just in case yours is worse than mine. Still, next time you lose points for misspelling and inconsistancies on a paper, you can point out that even the State of Washington doesn't have to spell things right.

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