Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:43     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The counselor shouldn’t have placed blame with your daughter. It’s very irritating and low class when employees do this. She should have said, “Oh no! I will get them the transcript right away. No worries! So sorry that happened.”


Public school employees are not in the service economy


The eff they aren't! They are civil servants paid for by me.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:39     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DD was admitted to UNC Chapel Hill. Yesterday, they called and said her admission is on hold because they never received her final HS transcript.

After much poking around and an hour on the phone with Parchment and three Chapel Hill AOs, we learned that the transcript was sent to UNC Wilmington, not UNC Chapel Hill.

We emailed her HS's college counselor who explained (we think) that this was my DD's fault. They allege that she 'mis selected' the school on a drop down somewhere. I find this very hard to believe as everything else Chapel Hill needed was given to them with no problem. Follow up emails to get clarity on what exactly happened have not been answered.

This is a large, well known, HS in the DC area. All seems to be rectified now after we emailed the counselor's boss who quickly sent the transcript. I have no problem admitting it was my DD's error if that is the case, but I'd like to know.

Does a HS have no part in verifying that they are sending the correct transcript to the correct school?

* School details have been changed to protect her identity.


Verifying with who? I am sure they don't double check with each student nor should they.


Schools shouldn't make sure they did their job correctly?

Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:39     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LOL at the posters saying NBD.

They didn't notice that the mid year transcript and final transcript were different colleges? What HS is this?


Maybe she accepted a waitlist later. Maybe she got a scholarship later. She’s an adult and it was her fault.


You don't know if it's her fault. You only know the school aid it was her fault, not theirs. And only they have access to the ways to verify that claim. You do know that people lie, right?
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:29     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.


It's a huge deal and caused a ton of stress for my DD as she also got the email that her admission was on hold. It's the middle of July. Admissions are closed. Had they simply retracted her offer she would up a creek without a paddle. She had already done her housing and established contact with her roommate. This isn't a whoopsie daisy.


If she can’t handle an email asking her to correct her mistake, maybe you should be gently guiding her down a different path.

Stuff like this happens everyday in the real world.


This is the thing— instead of worrying about who is to blame you should use it as a teaching moment that sometimes people (including her) will make mistakes and what matters is how you deal with them (and maybe what systems you have to address the fact that mistakes will happen)
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:26     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s really no need to assign blame in this situation. Mistakes happen and this one is really not a big deal.


It's a huge deal and caused a ton of stress for my DD as she also got the email that her admission was on hold. It's the middle of July. Admissions are closed. Had they simply retracted her offer she would up a creek without a paddle. She had already done her housing and established contact with her roommate. This isn't a whoopsie daisy.


If she can’t handle an email asking her to correct her mistake, maybe you should be gently guiding her down a different path.

Stuff like this happens everyday in the real world.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:25     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Solve the problem - move on.
Why dwell on this? It's petty and ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:21     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:The counselor shouldn’t have placed blame with your daughter. It’s very irritating and low class when employees do this. She should have said, “Oh no! I will get them the transcript right away. No worries! So sorry that happened.”

It’s low class? Sorry, but if I were the counselor I would have checked to make sure I had not made a mistake. I am not taking the blame for the student’s error!
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:16     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:The counselor shouldn’t have placed blame with your daughter. It’s very irritating and low class when employees do this. She should have said, “Oh no! I will get them the transcript right away. No worries! So sorry that happened.”


Public school employees are not in the service economy
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:16     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The verification is the drop down menu. If your daughter accidentally chose the wrong school, it isn’t her high school’s fault.

The problem was fixed. Move on.


Again, the counselor has no responsibility to endure they are sending it to the correct school? My DD has no access to anything to verify and if an error this large is this easy to make you'd think the school would be looking precisely for this because it must happen all the time.

I'm incredulous that my DD was the only senior of several hundred in her class to make such a simple mistake.

We have moved on but I want to know what happened.

You won't know what happened from DCUM. Sounds like your life is problem free at the moment.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:11     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
The counselor shouldn’t have placed blame with your daughter. It’s very irritating and low class when employees do this. She should have said, “Oh no! I will get them the transcript right away. No worries! So sorry that happened.”
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:08     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The verification is the drop down menu. If your daughter accidentally chose the wrong school, it isn’t her high school’s fault.

The problem was fixed. Move on.


Again, the counselor has no responsibility to endure they are sending it to the correct school? My DD has no access to anything to verify and if an error this large is this easy to make you'd think the school would be looking precisely for this because it must happen all the time.

I'm incredulous that my DD was the only senior of several hundred in her class to make such a simple mistake.

We have moved on but I want to know what happened.


Clearly you haven't
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:06     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
how about celebrating a great opportunity instead of trying to beat someone down(most likely your kid). We all make mistakes-except you apparently.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:06     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:LOL at the posters saying NBD.

They didn't notice that the mid year transcript and final transcript were different colleges? What HS is this?


OP, it's quite possible your DD selected the wrong item on the drop down menu, but it would be nice if the system gave her some sort of confirmation of school selected and send date. I hate it when there is an important item to do and the software or web interface gives you no idea whether your request went through or whether it was acted upon.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:05     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The verification is the drop down menu. If your daughter accidentally chose the wrong school, it isn’t her high school’s fault.

The problem was fixed. Move on.


Again, the counselor has no responsibility to endure they are sending it to the correct school? My DD has no access to anything to verify and if an error this large is this easy to make you'd think the school would be looking precisely for this because it must happen all the time.

I'm incredulous that my DD was the only senior of several hundred in her class to make such a simple mistake.

We have moved on but I want to know what happened.


Seems like everyone else managed to do it correctly. Why should an adult have to check the work of hundreds of other mostly adults that all seem perfectly competent?

Also, did you move on or are you on here not moving on until proven right?
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2024 09:04     Subject: Whose Responsibility?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The verification is the drop down menu. If your daughter accidentally chose the wrong school, it isn’t her high school’s fault.

The problem was fixed. Move on.


Again, the counselor has no responsibility to endure they are sending it to the correct school? My DD has no access to anything to verify and if an error this large is this easy to make you'd think the school would be looking precisely for this because it must happen all the time.

I'm incredulous that my DD was the only senior of several hundred in her class to make such a simple mistake.

We have moved on but I want to know what happened.


Looks like most kids understood the assignment and did it correctly.

Your daughter: she made a “simple mistake”

The counselor: massive, horrific mistake (though no mistake was made by him)