<p>From reading other threads I guess this is pretty common. They don't have my transcript or recommendations. I've been pretty diligent about calling bc I knew it was missing from the tracking online...same old answer about how it takes a while to process stuff...and now an e-mail saying they're missing both. I don't know if my professor still has the rec, he sent it in himself sealed so I don't have a copy. I feel bad asking him to send it again. And I didn't save the receipt of the official transcript to be sent. This is not good = /</p>
<p>yeah--don't listen man, if its like 2-3 days after u know something should have got there--it isn't there, don't listen to the b.s. that it takes time to process</p>
<p>everytime i have sent a fix, within a few hours, they either got it or didn't...the times it wasn't shown as processed within 3-4 hours that day, they never got it</p>
<p>i would fax anything missing at this pt, transcript is the only thing u can't...they require a hard copy of that</p>
<p>It's okay, schools do this all the time. The only thing you can do is talk to Columbia, let them know you sent everything in. I'm sure it's not an uncommon thing. They'll let you know what you can do. Just buy your professor dinner or something, he understands it's not your fault (:</p>
<p>yheah it's just an unnecessary source of stress. i realize they have a lot of mail but they shouldn't throw anything away. plus it's just more time/money out of my depleted funds to send the forms again. gahhh</p>
<p>see if you can fax what you need. the first time i sent my status report to BU via mail they did not get it. i faxed it yesterday morning and the fax didnt go through. i faxed it again yesterday afternoon and it finally went through. it is an unnecessary amount of stress on my part. the dean also wrote a letter that he included in the fax that said that it didn't go through because of him, not me. these things happen to the best of us. isn't there a saying like, "the storm makes flowers" or something like that?</p>
<p>lesson: get recs, from tenured professors who have secretories that handle all recomendations. I never even had to go through him. I applied to 8 schools, everyone but 2 got lost somehow in the mail. Everytime, I had to call her, and she had them faxed, she had my rec on a computer hard-drive. However, my other rec person, a t.a., issues..........</p>
<p>Columbia lost my rec too. And the prof's not even in North America right now. Great...</p>