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[The Pseudo grad student]

So I recently found out that in practically all my schools that I need to RESEND my transcript again because my degree was not "conferred". The only way I found this out was because every school listed my transcripts missing even though I knew each and everyone of them had received it via the post office. So apparently an "incomplete" transcript means nothing at all. Most of the schools said that my transcript is unacceptable until then and yet my degree won't be conferred until the end of February which means having to spend another 100+ dollars on getting and sending in transcripts to the 8 schools I applied to. I realize that really all this was initiated because I didn't graduate until December 2009 because of some idiot at the engineering department couldn't figure out my GE's. Because all these grad schools have deadlines marked for my transcripts, I have no other choice but to send them off "incomplete" and spend twice as much to do it all again is so frustrating. Not only that but because I needed to clarify my situation by calling ever school it's delayed processing my applications making me wait for decisions that much longer. It made me start to question if this entire process was all worth it. Does anyone else have this problem? Thoughts? Help? Do people applying during their senior have to go through this annoyance as well?