"Hi. I'm trying to follow up on my application status. I've submitted everything and heard nothing from you guys."Evidently, they don't have too many older applicants. I find it ludicrous that they are holding things up because I didn't submit a letter from my undergrad institution. Also, I think it's pretty shitty that I've received no notification that my application wasn't complete.
"Is your application complete? Have you submitted everything?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out. It should be complete because I submitted everything via Interfolio last month."
"Hold please."
[Holiday music plays while I'm on hold for a few minutes.]
"Okay, I see that we received a letter from [private women's college] and looks like one other one..."
"That would be from the D.O. that I shadowed Dr. [name withheld]."
"Okay, just let me look and I can tell you who it's from."
"It's from the D.O.; it's the only other letter that I've submitted."
"It's from the D.O., you're right."
"So, you guys have had these for a month, can you tell me what's going on with the application?"
"It's incomplete."
"What? Why? You have all of my letters."
"We don't have a letter from the institution where you got your Bachelor degrees."
"I graduated almost fifteen years ago with liberal arts degrees. I submitted a letter from my post-bacc program that I recently completed. They are much more familiar with my sciences work."
"I'm sorry but we require a recommendation letter from the institution that granted your bachelor's degree."
"You want a letter from UGA by someone that I don't know -- and who certainly doesn't know me -- from a department that has nothing to do with science to write a recommendation letter for me? How will that help anything?"
"That's what we require, sir."
"That doesn't really make any sense. Every other school to which I've applied has happily accepted my letters from my post-bacc program."
"I'm sorry, sir, that's our requirement. Can I take your information and have someone get back to you on this?"
"You better believe it."
By the way, after giving them my information, I've not received a call. I can't wait to continually hound them on this.
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I realize that I am commenting on a really old blog entry, but this made me think "no wonder I never heard back from PCOM Georgia". I am also a non-traditional student as well (but only by a few years). I graduated in 2005 and took premed courses from 2005-2007 at another institution. Of course, my academic letters logically came from the school where I took the premed courses. It is all good now, though, as I am about to finish my first year at VCOM. PCOM will continue to lose a lot of good applicants that way.
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