The one that got under my craw was when I went to see an academic advisor with one or two semesters left.
I had been fastidious about covering all the specified requirements, and my proposed course-load covered the remainder. Except apparently you needed 128 total hours, and actually covering the requirements of the programme left you six short. They designed the timetable assuming that people would bounce between majors or otherwise load up on go-nowhere electives, and the advisor basically said I could take underwater basket weaving and it would count for the gap.
I ended up taking a CLEP exam a few weeks later to claim the equivalent credits of several semesters worth of Spanish classes.
I had been fastidious about covering all the specified requirements, and my proposed course-load covered the remainder. Except apparently you needed 128 total hours, and actually covering the requirements of the programme left you six short. They designed the timetable assuming that people would bounce between majors or otherwise load up on go-nowhere electives, and the advisor basically said I could take underwater basket weaving and it would count for the gap.
I ended up taking a CLEP exam a few weeks later to claim the equivalent credits of several semesters worth of Spanish classes.