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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened to me at an elite school that I won’t name. It was a credit transfer mix up but I also had shaky grades so it looked like I had failed out. [b]It was embarrassing because the only other people in my grade who didn’t finish were a famous actress and someone who took time off for cancer treatment.[/b]

But I stayed for the summer and did my credits. It sucked. I know people talked about me behind my back but I also knew I didn’t have a choice. I felt embarrassed for 5 years or so (when I had to put a fall graduation date in for month and year of graduation in job applications) but I don’t think about it much now.

My parents kept the shaming going much longer than I felt the shame, if that informs OP’s approach. It was not their money being spent, which made it that much worse.[/quote]

The bolded is merely how you perceived it to be.  It wasn’t actually the case.  Your post is self-centered, irrelevant and definitely not helpful. [/quote]

I worked in the office responsible for issuing diplomas as a work-study job. I assure you it was true and I’m not sure why you would try to negate someone’s actual experience at a relatively small university where not graduating on time pre-Covid was exceptionally rare. My hope is that my extreme case reassures OP that the most self-conscious and obvious non-graduate can survive.[/quote]

So you memorized or compared the diploma list to the incoming freshman list for that year?  Yeah.[/quote]

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