Foreign credits in a Excelsior College transcript, what a mess!!!

Hi all,

I hold a baccalaureate degree in Medical Technology from a foreign university. Some of these credits were transferred to my baccalaureate degree in Nursing from Excelsior College.
I tried to enroll in a masters degree program at Ball state University in Indiana, but they require that I send transcripts of every institution in my Excelsior transcript. There is not a problem with institution in the US. I had had my international transcripts evaluated by independent agencies through the years, I offered to send transcripts of these evaluations, but they declined. The problem is getting the university in Mexico to send transcripts of my degree due to the red tape prevalent and because this is not customary in my country. I would appreciate any advice on how to overcome this difficulty.

 

In Germany, universities will laugh at you when you ask for sending transcripts to ANY place. Here it is common to just get one for yourself, and you´d have to make official certified copies to send them to other institutions yourself (the university would never do so -> that´s costs for them!).
I reckon it´s pretty much the same in your case.
Can´t you try to make that fact clear to the admission office of Ball State Univ.?
Greets,
Trigger

 

"Solution"

This is a problem. One born form lack of intercultural understanding. May I suggest that you write a letter to the Ombudsperson of the university of whosoever plays that role, explaining the issue and how this will lead to delays. Additionally, I suggest that you contact professors from the University itself who are experts in the field on Mexico/Mexican culture and practices (i.e., Spanish language and culture professors, Hispanic studies professors, anthropologists, etc.) and ask them to help you explaining the situation to THEIR own administration.

Keep in mind that most of the people who do this work (admissions) probably have never left the US and/or never learned to speak another language and/or have never conceived that there are other ways of doing things.

Sadly, for a very polyglot and multi-ethnic country, we are amazingly insular. Sometimes we need a little bit knock on the head to get some sense into us. Please do you part in this. May be this can lead the Director of Admissions to elaborate the rules, and allow alternative, legal means to establish one's record--as is the case around the world.

As Triggersoft suggested, in some parts of the world, asking for official records after graduation is considered lack of responsibility on the part of the individual student who ought have made multiple copies of the initial record and made legalized them by various means.

Good luck.

Kenneth K. A.