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<p>My diplomas are proudly hung in my laundry room at home…all of them. I look at them every time I put in a load of wash. No employer has ever asked to see them. I have my license and certification posted in my workplace…but my diploma…nope…it’s in the laundry room. </p>
<p>I also don’t remember the last time someone asked me WHERE I got all of my degrees.</p>
<p>From that point on, it was sarcasm, sorry if I didn’t mention where the sarcasm starts(duh)…btw, how is this nonsense, if this is nonsense then 99% public institutions are putting nonsense on their paper. Even if they don’t see your diploma, so what, if 99% colleges are doing it then there’s no reason for Penn State not to do it, even it means nothing.</p>
<p>Alright that’s it, don’t understand how I can stop posting if you keep flaming. Not really psychologically possible.</p>
<p>You said you didnt mention diploma. You did. Sarcasm or not - thats irrelevant. Case closed.
If you dont want responses, stop posting.
You asked in the thread title if anyone else thinks this is absurd. It appears from the posts here that the answer is a resounding NO</p>
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<p>Really???
Did you see the post right after mine? It was an opinion question, so respect my opinion.</p>
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<p>even one person can be this “anyone else” and NO means nobody else, which is obviously not the case</p>
<p>Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Yours is in the very significant minority on this thread. As I said- the answer is a resounding NO. Doesn’t require a 100% concordance. Why are you harping on this non-issue (rhetorical question- doesnt need a response).</p>
<p>How did you do on the retake of your ACT in December? If you brought the score up significantly from the 22 you said you got earlier, you can perhaps look as schools besides the SAT/ACT optional schools, and maybe PSU will fall off your radar and this will be a non-issue.</p>
<p>** ahh looks like you deleted your last post…</p>
<p>^How does that relate with this thread?I thought you said STOP? Plus where I go is non of your business. Stop ■■■■■■■■. Do I have to tell the administration to delete this thread for you to stop posting?</p>
<p>If you did well enough to be able to report your ACT score, the door opens for you, and it may be less necessary to harp on the diploma from PSU</p>
<p>The diploma from Purdue University-Calumet only reads Purdue University. Do you feel better now, OP?</p>
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<p>The people who decide what the diploma reads, are the people on the Pennsylvania state university board of regents (or whatever that committee is called). As far as they are concerned all of the branches are the same for this purpose. There is nothing that you can do about that other than lobby them to change their policy. Which is just not remotely likely to happen. </p>
<p>It looks to me like your real beef is that students who didn’t work as hard as you have in high school, and who consequently can’t start out their college education at the same category as you can, could by the end of their college years appear (on paper at least) to be “as good” as you do. The simple truth is that by then they may well be “as good” as you! Some of them may actually be “better” than you. This is just a fact of life. Not everyone has their act together in high school, or even at the beginning of their college education. However, by the end, some of those students who were “slackers” have developed the study habits and personal drive necessary to succeed.</p>
<p>Instead of being worried about what the Penn State system puts on its diplomas or transcripts, you need to be thinking about how your study habits and personal drive will get you where you want to be in life. Your only real competition is your own self.</p>
<p>Well said, happymomof1.</p>
<p>As you said, students may start at satellite campuses for a variety of reasons. Besides, why complain about (in the OP) the lower SAT scores of the admits at the regional campuses, when the OP (who states he is an international, and has been in North America for about 5 years or so and therefore doesnt have to report his ACT score to PSU or Purdue) states that he has an ACT score that is equivalent to an SAT of 1560/2400, which is more in line with the regional campus scores he mentions in his OP, and would be well below that expected for PSU. So, it seems, that he too might also be benefitting from opportunities offered by PSU, which in his case is the ability to not send the ACT, and for others is the receipt of a generic PSU diploma. Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, as they say…</p>
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<p>I don’t know where my B.S. diploma is. I haven’t seen it in years. I think it was stored at my parents’ house. No telling where it went after they died. My Ph.D. diploma is upstairs in a drawer - still in the mailer that University of California used to send it to me. My daughter’s B.A. diploma is framed and hanging here in our house, not 1500 miles away where she currently lives. No employer has ever seen or asked to see any of them.</p>
<p>Last year there was a whole thread in the Parents Cafe on the subject of where the diplomas had ended up. Many of us aren’t too clear about their locations, myself included. I do know however just exactly where my transcripts are, because the last time I needed copies, I ordered five sealed official copies from each of the seven (yes 7) different places where I’ve taken credit coursework over the years. They are in the top drawer of the filing cabinet.</p>
<p>Oh, and when I looked at them, the name of my degree program for my M.S. had been changed because the department’s name has changed since I graduated. Now I don’t know what to say my degree is in. Do I use the old name, the new name, or the name the department had when I first enrolled there? It’s not on the diploma or on the title page of my thesis - I checked both of them before misplacing them yet again.</p>
<p>OP - You’re not thinking like an 800SAT guy. If nobody can tell the difference, and if the satellite campuses are cheaper, then why not go there for the first two years, stash the cash, then go to the main campus? That’s 800LifeSAT thinking!</p>
<p>Seriously, amIright?</p>
<p>I wonder if he’d have to report his ACT scores to the satellite campuses but not to the main campus? If so, his ACT scores might get him rejected from some of the the satellite schools</p>
<p>*** He also said elsewhere his SAT scores stunk but claimed it was b/c he didnt study. And then claimed he couldnt retake b/c he was schduled for the SAT II? Huh??</p>
<p>I never attended my college graduation or picked up my diploma. After 30 years, I doubt the school even has it anymore. My law school diploma is in the attic and my certificate of admission to the bar was only picked up because the first firm I worked for had been misled by some guy who became a star attorney without even having graduated HS - so the firm added a requirement of having to physically see your certificate. I lugged it in for my second interview and never brought it back in. Some lawyers put up their diplomas, etc. though it’s less frequent than doctors. Nobody at my current firm (20 lawyers) has a diploma up.</p>
<p>OP- Didn’t you just retake the ACT? How did you do?</p>
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<p>I have the same problem, except for me it is the entire university that changed its name. I have no idea what to put on my resume - the original name or the current name.</p>
<p>OP, did you know that when you graduate from Harvard Extension – much easier to get into than Harvard – your diploma still says Harvard University?
Now THAT’s unfair.
I’m being facetious here, though it’s true about Harvard. (Undergraduate degrees are granted by Harvard College and U.)</p>