This makes me so angry......

[ma7eb4i]

Apologies about the moaning and groaning, but.....whiskey-tango-foxtrot?!

Does anyone else that applied through Stanford Biosci think that the $125 application fee was really fracking steep? On top of that, they requested two official sets of transcripts thus adding another $20 to the cost (I won't even go into a rant about class bias in having such a high fee). To add insult to injury, it took them an ENTIRE WEEK after the application deadline to update on my login page that they had, indeed, received my official transcripts and GRE scores. All the while, I was freaking out, e-mailing, and calling them. They didn't answer a single e-mail or phone call, and their voicemail for the contact number was full.

Is it unreasonable for me to think that paying a $125 application fee should buy me the courtesy of some notification that there was a processing delay on their part? The website said that everything should have been entered within two business days of submission. I'm starting to get the feeling that Stanford is a school where I just won't ever hear anything from them again.....not even a gosh darn rejection e-mail. Just dreaded Limbo. Grrr....

[Krypton]

Umm, did you not notice this?

[ma7eb4i]

Yep. Everything was sent well in advance. No response to pestering after the deadline had passed to see if I needed to resend things. Looks like it finally got entered. Still probably a waste of $125.

[MarA]

Yea... I hear you. For me, it actually took me a little bit more than a week (a business week) for all the things to be updated. And yea, they never answered my email and never answered my call. I was super paranoid and used the application status checking system every day....well...at least everything is set now...

Edited December 22, 2009 by MarA