I received an interesting email today. It notified me that I have been withdrawn
from university due to a lack of course completion during the last 12
months. It also told me that if I wished
to re-enroll I can do so by submitting a readmission form. The email ended by saying that they “hope to
see me back in class.”
This email wasn’t sent by Penn
Foster College,
where I am a student. It was sent by American
Military University. I had completely forgotten that I had
submitted an application to the school about a year ago, back when I was
thinking of transferring my Penn Foster
College credits to another school
and then completing my bachelor’s degree.
The great thing about AMU is there is no application fee, you can submit
your application online, and you receive a response and a student ID number
almost immediately.
In the end, I decided that $250 per credit hour was more
than I wanted to pay at the time, and that I would continue studying with Penn
Foster College
in a program which costs me about $55 per credit hour. I did spend some time in the AMU student
portal, reading through information about how the school operates. It looked like a fine program, and who knows…I
may actually enroll and become a student at AMU one day.
As for my “lack of course completion”, I never paid for nor
signed up for any courses, so the “lack of course completion” email doesn’t
hurt my feelings too much. It’s kind of
hard to get kicked out of a class that you never signed up for in the first
place. I am sure if I decided to “re-enroll”
at AMU, they would welcome me back.
After all, I am a military veteran…their target student.
Now, if Penn Foster
College had sent me an email saying
I had been withdrawn from the college, I’d have a real problem. Right now, my only problem is working my way
through Financial Accounting!