More Hating on AUC

I don't think a Registrar's office should even be ALLOWED to refuse to offer transcripts. And this is great (forgot to mention it), if you want a transcript within one day, it costs US$15, but if you are willing to wait five days, then it's only like $8 or something. Can you believe that? $8 for a single transcript? At Columbia there were free (and unlimited).

So here's where the Registrar's office is just so full of crap (and VERY typically AUC -- this is SO SO SO TYPICAL): If you order a transcript now, AND pay for the one-day express service, then you will get it on January 2 (keep in mind the office is NOT closed...it just isn't offering transcripts). If pay the "wait 5 days" rate, then you get it on 8 January.

CAN YOU BELIEVE that they are insisting upon an express v. regular service price AND time difference, when BOTH are taking way longer than the normal 5 day period? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to let everyone pay the 5 day rate and then APOLOGIZE for not getting it to them until the 2nd (let alone the 8th)??

I hate AUC.

Here is the email I just got from Columbia after I begged them to read my application without waiting for AUC:

Dear Chunk,

Thank you for your continued interest in Columbia Law School. [they always say that]

Unfortunately, we cannot review your file until it is complete. As therequirement for foreign transcripts is one that we insist upon for all ofour prospective students, we would not consider it fair to make anexception in this case. You are also very well ahead of the February 15thdeadline, so completing your application in January should not influenceyour candidacy to any significant degree.

We look forward to receiving your Dean's Certification.

Best regards,

Columbia Law School

So -- as we say in Egypt (even though I still don't really understand what it means): "ma3lesh" ("3" stands for a letter in Arabic that, standing alone, looks like a backward 3, is written in Roman script with an apostrophe in the shape of a superscript 'c,' and sounds like...well...I can't describe it, but if you know the German work "Ein," (like "Einstein") and then sort of constrict your throat and grunt (think pushing a baby out or being extremely constipated) on the "E" part, and you will have it -- I have a GREAT `ayn (or "3ayn"), which is what makes me superior to most Americans ;p -- you can click here to hear a recording of the sound, but I have to say it's kinda weak...we need a strong Gulfi `ayn, not some wimpy one that sounds more like German than Arabic). That was one big parenthetical! Anyway, ma3lesh basically means like "whatever"/"what can one do?"/"regrettably, no" and represents a passive acceptance of material circumstance that I find extremely frustrating (because it's like, once you "let go" and utter the words "ma3lesh" then you -- you meaning the waiter you are talking to, or the bureaucratic behind his desk -- are basically saying "I ain't gone do nuthin'").

VC