<p>I wish I could eliminate UT from my radar sometimes (its really stressing me out), but the McCombs Business School and excellent in-state tuition make it almost a requirement for me, its seems to be my only happy medium between cost and benefit, I could attend Stern at NYU, but the costs there are extremely high. I could also attend somewhere like TCU, which is reasonable after my scholarship there, but I dont feel like I would fit in there. (and its TOO close to home for me).</p>
<p>So I spoke with the admissions officer, and even though my appeal letter described in great detail what had happened, and the letter from my counselor (which she did type on short notice) explained how responsible I was and explained how the schools bureaucracy had mishandled my transcripts, without clearly pointing fingers at anyone. It seemed more than adequate enough in my opinion.</p>
<p>However the appeals committee believes it would "help my situation," (ie I pretty much wont get in unless I do what they say) if I go back to my counselor and get her to claim total responsibility for the transcript incidents and explain exactly what the school did wrong.</p>
<p>I explained what exactly happened:</p>
<p>In December I submitted a folder to the secretary (my counselor was out) with self-addressed envelopes for all counselor reccomendations and the reccomendation forms inside them, since UT didn't have a reccomendation requirement I simply left a note inside the folder asking for her to send a transcript to UT as well.</p>
<p>Did the note fall out while being shuffled around? Did the secretary simply throw out the manilla folder and put the envelopes in my counselor's box? Did my counselor simply overlook the note? Did I even leave a note for my counselor? None of it can be proven, the only evidence we have is that my counselor filled out the transcript request form for all the schools that had self-addressed envelopes, but nowhere does her request have UT written on it, thus leaving ALL possibilities open (short of mailing problems).</p>
<p>Surely with such an unsolvable situation, I figured a letter from my counselor who already placed blame on the school's system would be enough, and asking her to point fingers where none could be pointed would be most unfair.</p>
<p>But UT is quite adament, the officer said, "Part of the admission process is making sure that students can follow direction," so verifying that I followed every direction is vital to my appeal (I thought my first letter already proved that I was following all directions! Gah!)</p>
<p>So now I basically have to approach my poor overworked counselor tommorow like some dirty prosecutor and ask her to sign a confession laying out as clearly as possible why I should not be held accountable for the mistakes that were made, considering all the unknowns in this situation I think it is extremely harsh to do that and Im basically pressuring my counselor to make assumptions and hypotheticals and make her print them as fact to appease the appeals committee.</p>
<p>I feel really bad about this, but I have no other choice, if this goes through though Im going to get my counselor a gift basket or something.</p>