Good News: School is clearly interested. Bad News: Not getting in.

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Just have to vent...I've been in pretty close communication with my first choice program and I've noticed they're reviewing my file remarkably quickly. I was feeling confident for a while, but this one program, however, has two undergraduate course requirements that I did not complete, and I thought I would be clever and register for a graduate course that I thought would fulfill one of those reqs at a nearby university. Just got an email from the program head saying they've noticed that I'm missing those two classes and the one course that I'm taking (Advanced Human Growth & Development) does not fulfill the requirement of either Child Development or Adolescent Development. So basically, I fucked up, because:

A] I did not verify that this would satisfy either of those requirements (although in my defense, I also signed up for this class because at the very least, it would knock out one basic requirement at the other school I applied to),

B] I misinterpreted the requirements as those classes being required for entrance into the program, not for admission (thinking I could do the other class during a summer session), and

C] It is too late to drop the class and receive a refund of any of the $2k I spent.

I did not think I would be able to afford $4,000 taking undergrad courses after graduation for a school that I might not get into (I make $10,000 a year and have $50,000 in student loans out already), and yet here I am looking at spending possibly around $6,000 to do the same thing. There's definitely no way I am being admitted into this program (my dream school) now, and it is 1000% my fault.

Edited February 9, 2012 by Normal