The waiting game
So I got a letter in the mail about a month ago from SIUC saying that they would accept me regardless of prior academic standing due to my status as a veteran. Which is only slightly off-putting but awesome nonetheless. But that wasn’t a letter of admission, I’d have to fill out a little form stating that I’d present my discharge paperwork to the school prior to registering for a second semester. So I dutifully filled out the form and managed to lose the return envelope I was to send it back in. No big deal, I’m resourceful dude and I have any number of methods by which to get this piece of paper to them.
I call the admissions office to ask if I can fax it to them. The first person to answer sounded a little overwhelmed and I think they shut off as soon as I said “veteran” because they immediately transferred me to the veterans advisory office. I spoke to someone there who gave me a number to which I could fax this letter and called it a day.
Two weeks pass and no letter of admission. I’m getting anxious. This letter of admission is the one piece of paper I need to start the process of getting out of the Army early enough to start school in January rather than have to wait until August of next year. I’m stuck in the field so Katie emails the admissions office a letter I dictate to her over the phone.
Over the course of a week of slow email conversation the admissions office gives me another fax number (apparently the one I had used before was just the veterans advisory fax and they’re not the ones who needed my letter, the admissions office does) and I fax off the letter again and admissions tells me that they have it and I’m in and I can expect a letter in the mail in the next couple weeks.
So I wait.