<p>I'm sorry to be one of those chance me people but I could really use some sort of realistic help and any ideas or tips anyone has.</p>
<p>So UMass is by far my first choice of transfer. I love the atmosphere there. Their application deadline for the spring is October 1. At that time I was worried whether or not I'd still be at Dean College where I have attended the spring semester of last year and am currently attending this semester now. The reason I did not know whether I'd be enrolled is because my mother and I kept talking about how I might have to withdraw due to their financial problems. My dad is a software engineer and has a great job at Fidelity right now but in the summer he tried to create his own entity with a few other business partners and it didn't work out so we had a major setback. Dean has been understanding and nice to my family by giving us time on our payments, but I did not get my transfer application to UMass nearly on time. On top of that I submitted my signature before my payment, therefore leaving my application "in progress" status. I had never submitted a common app before and in the e-mail I received I got confused because the letter said give the status of my application two days to change. It never did and I still thought nothing of it. I noticed that the signature form was blank again but I didn't want to resubmit it even a day later than it already had been submit So then late October comes and I still haven't received any application ID notification. I called admissions and explained her my concern. She told me to go to the signature form and I explained her how it was blank. Then she was like "resubmit it, now!" She explained to me how the signature form does not submit until after the payment is in. So I resubmit my signature, and immediately, my application changed to complete. I'm pretty sure she told someone about that but I had already planned on going to admissions in person and explaining my situation which I will be doing tomorrow or this upcoming Tuesday. In that meeting I will bring my teacher rec's and midyear report which shows a 3.6/3.7. My semester grades from last year were a 3.4. I also have some good E.C.'s. I am a peer tutor and I also explained how I ran my own little business converting people's home tapes from VHS and other formats to DVD and personalizing it for them. Also in hs I was captain of my wrestling team and defensive MVP for my football team. Clearly, I am upset because I feel I am qualified to transfer, but was unable to submit an app at the time when I was planning on it because of my financial circumstances. I was in survival mode not transfer mode. I greatly appreciate my grandparents who ultimately agreed to back us if my family started to buckle under the bills. I felt my essay was appropriate, too, being about what I have learned about myself since high school and why I didn't try when I was younger. Luckily I do not need to send my hs transcript because I am presenting 34 credits (27 or more you don't need to) but I will be really bummed if I am told my app can't be submitted for the spring. I plan on reiterating this all to admissions when I see them. Any thoughts or tips for how I should approach admissions when I meet with them would be much appreciated, thanks.</p>