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The Summer before my Junior year I studied abroad in New Zealand through a program here at ASU. It was amazing. I asked my advisor 3 times if the classes I took there would satisfy my global credit for the International Business Certificate. She assured me they would.

Fast forward to my last semester Senior year. When I was selecting my classes I took the Elivs class and an extra Statistics class just for fun (yes I am a nerd). I just needed enough credits to maintain my full-time student status so that I could use the remainder of my scholarship and so that I could remain on my mom’s health insurance. I asked my advisor again if I was all set to graduate at the end of the semester. She assured me I was.

Then, halfway through my last semester she told me that one of my classes in New Zealand would not count for a global credit, it would only count for a humanities credit. I may have taken it on the other side of the globe, but no dice. And thus I needed one class to complete my International Business Certificate.

So now I had to delay graduation for a semester because of one class that I now had to pay $1000 for because my 4 year scholarship was up. Everything for my Marketing degree was complete, but I just needed this one class for the International Business Certificate. To top it off, it’s a 100 level class that I could have probably done in my sleep that last semester instead of learning about Graceland and representative samples.

To top it off, this Summer I emailed this said advisor to quadruple check (or more, at this point I’ve lost count) that everything would be on track for my graduation this December. She replied that my records indicate that I never applied for an International Businesss Certificate. I almost died. I was living out of the state and had to find my paperwork and fax it to her to show her that in fact I had applied and was accepted.

As of right now I am graduating in December. Needless to say I understand quite well the frustrations of poor advisement and have had to deal with it for close to a year now.

p.s. picking a major helps a TON when it comes to advising…they can’t help you if you dont’ know where you want to go!