<p>mann...they lost my faculty reference form...I cant believe this...Now, I have to again go and request my faculty member to mail it to them as soon as possible........suckss..they even lost my college transcript, which I am sure that I mailed and I have received confirmation from usps too....</p>
<p>EVERYONE call tomorrow.
As mentioned before, I seriously doubt that we could ALL have "lost" so much stuff.</p>
<p>Ha, I believe it. This happens to me every year.</p>
<p>HAHAHA I just called and they were like, "it looks like we have all your materials, we are sorry about the email."</p>
<p>it's not 8:30 in cali yet! how did you get though</p>
<p>I called the number they provided on the email (her name was Anne Pedicord or something). I totally forgot about the time difference, so I don't know how I got through... (it was 11 am EST, so 8 am Cali?)
Maybe I caught her as she walked into her office ><</p>
<p>Haha, y17k, I just did the same thing. Only, it was probably about 8:30 am there. Oh well, they were really nice. </p>
<p>So far, in my experience, my rankings for nicest phone people (going from nicest to meanest) are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Stanford/Harvard</li>
<li>NYU (I literally got screamed at. And they made me read them the entire email they sent me because they didn't believe that they had sent it).</li>
</ol>
<p>Stanford were extra nice.
I have never called Harvard and probably wouldn't unless they can tell me my decision.
The others weren't screaming but I could tell that there was some tension... They are probably quite busy.</p>
<p>Three of my applications are now comlpete.</p>
<p>Janel: So Stanford fixed everything?</p>
<p>Yeah, they fixed everything. I'm all set. </p>
<p>The woman on the phone kept saying, "wait, now before I let you go...", "ok, but before I let you go let me check..." -- as if I was in some rush to get off the phone with her. Haha, please. Stanford, I would gladly stay on the phone until 5 pm with you if I could.</p>
<p>Really nice people, I know...</p>
<p>Yeah Stanford and Harvard people were really friendly.
And NYU was especially impatient when I was applying last year...</p>
<p>4 applications confirmed complete 1 to go.</p>
<p>3 confirmed, 1 to go... NYU, who told me don't call them again until late next week, haha.</p>
<p>I went to NYU for a year until I dropped out. Trying to transfer to Stanford now, 3 years later.</p>
<p>NYU sucks. The administration really can't care less about you, and if you expect any advise - forget it. When I called my academic advisor to have him fill out a form (the one that says I haven't been in trouble), he said "I don't know why they transferred you to me, they must've pulled my name out of a hat, because I'm not your advisor." Maybe that's how they do things over there. He also had no indicator that I had already "transferred" before (I just wanted to take a 2-credit class at a city college), even though I had asked him twice to make sure my file indicates that I'm not at freaking NYU any more.</p>
<p>So, if you don't like the NYU people now.... think again whether or not you really want to go to NYU.</p>
<p>The only thing about their administration I like is, they don't charge for transcripts and they send them out the same day. Well, considering the tuition rate and the dismal financial aid, it damn should be free - but still, ain't bad.</p>
<p>-m</p>
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<p>I went to NYU for a year until I dropped out. Trying to transfer to Stanford now, 3 years later.</p>
<p>NYU sucks. The administration really can't care less about you, and if you expect any advise - forget it. When I called my academic advisor to have him fill out a form (the one that says I haven't been in trouble), he said "I don't know why they transferred you to me, they must've pulled my name out of a hat, because I'm not your advisor." Maybe that's how they do things over there. He also had no indicator that I had already "transferred" before (I just wanted to take a 2-credit class at a city college), even though I had asked him twice to make sure my file indicates that I'm not at freaking NYU any more.</p>
<p>So, if you don't like the NYU people now.... think again whether or not you really want to go to NYU.</p>
<p>The only thing about their administration I like is, they don't charge for transcripts and they send them out the same day. Well, considering the tuition rate and the dismal financial aid, it damn should be free - but still, ain't bad.
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Well I don't know who you had but my academic advisor is really helpful and nice. It's just those damn phone people who seem always agitated.</p>
<p>Joseph Hemmes. He's such a freaking weirdo. He always closes his eyes whenever he says anything, and looks like he's concentrating very deeply on what he's saying - even when he's talking about the most banal things! "So what are your SAT scores... uh huh... well getting into Stanford is certainly difficult but it's not completely out of your league..." Ok, I didn't ask you for your non-advice, I just wanted you to check off the box that I never got in trouble. And can you please not make 5 creases on my form while you write one sentence that reiterates what the checkbox already says? Nobody can read your handwriting, and you're not giving them any new information anyway, so seriously, just stop.</p>
<p>NO NO DON'T PUT IT IN YOUR OWN ENVELOPE, I have one already where you don't have to fold the paper in order to put it in, so that they don't have thousands of papers that are all trying to curl up all over their office. And what's the point of sealing the envelope and giving it to me, anyway? If you want to make sure I'm not gonna do something to the form that I don't want you to see, you mail it yourself - after all, it's already stamped. If you give it to me, I'm gonna open it, photocopy it, and put it in another envelope to mail. There's a lot more where this envelope came from. Wasted my 2 damn stamps. Anyway.</p>
<p>He's clearly been there for years, so I don't know what's the deal. I assumed it's because he's up to NYU's standards. Maybe there's some political reason for keeping him on the job. I don't know what the other ones are like. Phone/front desk people are just students doing work-study, I wouldn't hold NYU too accountable for their mistakes - not like they're paying them or anything, the govt is. But this guy, damn...</p>
<p>-m</p>
<p>had missing docs too, my SATs and H. sch report. Faxed it though, the lady was very pleasant.
x:-D Keep the faith!</p>