# So school screwed up my diploma **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249 "2010-07-01T23:16:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/21 "2010-07-03T04:39:53Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Revelle College at UCSD? I graduated from there with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Yes, Revelle. They must have changed something; I know I read some years ago that only BAs were given. My degree was in the humanities in any event. BTW my year was 1980, years before I read that, so it’s likely we’re talking about three different points in time here. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/22 "2010-07-03T04:49:31Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Yes, Revelle. They must have changed something; I know I read some years ago that only BAs were given. My degree was in the humanities in any event. BTW my year was 1980, years before I read that, so it’s likely we’re talking about three different points in time here. I started in '82. At UCSD it’s not the colleges that determine the type of degree offered, that’s at the university level. The same degrees are offered at all colleges. The only way to get a BS at UCSD is to graduate with an engineering major. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/23 "2010-07-04T03:00:43Z")
I always have to fight to get my last name spelled right. It’s a normal spelling, but not the more common one. There are a lot of official documents with the wrong name–I only bother with the ones that matter. Luckily, all of my diplomas have always been correct. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/24 "2010-07-04T03:33:22Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > You’re lucky. When I graduated college, My deploma case was empty, save a note to see the registrar. I went the next day only to find that they had no record of me ever attending primary school. They had my high school trandscript and deploma. What they didn’t have was… well, they had something showing I went to kindergarten for 3 months then was pulled out. They also had the wrong school district. That’s why I olny went to kindergarten for 3 months, the school district I transferred to didn’t offer it. > > They did finally straighten it out, but it took a while. In the meantime I missed the first opportunity to take state boards. Just a quick question—If you had actually not attended kindergarten (say you travelled with your parents in a VW hippy van following Jim Nabors from concert to concert) would your college diploma have been withheld from you? If you completed all your coursework for a college degree, why would they care about a lack of previous education? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/25 "2010-07-04T13:25:38Z")
I really can’t see why the school would care whether you had any record of attending primary school, if they have records of you attending and graduating from high school. FYI, I know someone as an undergraduate who never received his high school diploma, because of a missing phys ed credit. But he received a B.S. degree, went on to earn an M.S. and a PhD, and is now a college professor. Would all of that be revoked if they now noticed the missing high school diploma? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/26 "2010-07-04T14:20:41Z")
Steven Colbert claims to have graduated three times. The first time, he went through the line, got his folder and the president of the college whispered in his ear, “I’m so sorry.” He still had to take another course. So in December he was set to graduate again, but he owed money on a library book. Finally they mailed the thing to him. So buck up. [cite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqpvsJJEmk) ---
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/27 "2010-07-04T17:36:08Z")
I lost my diploma a long time ago but I had to contact the University at one point in order to verify my education before getting my architect’s license. They sent back a document saying that I had earned my Master of Architecture when in reality I had earned my Bachelor of Architecture. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249/28 "2010-07-05T02:15:22Z")
**sparky!** , I work in a university registrar’s office, and I can assure you they will be happy to fix your diploma. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-school-screwed-up-my-diploma/545249.md?page=1)