my half acceptance..

Hi Samantha.  

Thanks for putting in your application, it looks excellent.  Im hoping to serve your needs and you are certainly qualified to participate in our program;  unfortunately I dont see an immediate solution if you are indeed interested in earning our certificate and attending in the spring and then the fall.  

Our leadership cohort is tight knit this year and including an additional member on our spring capstone seems unlikely- in addition a fair amount of the leadership curriculum, including the decision on what our capstone expedition will be, occurs (and has now occurred) in the fall.  There may be an alternative, one as of yet undetermined, but as I said in past correspondence the program does run fall to spring.  We're a small program at a small school.  Both Kevin Krein and myself are teaching overloads in F12/S13 to meet demand for our existing students.  

Id love to work with you in S13 and F13;  I cannot commit to a certificate completion plan at this time as the staffing and schedule may not allow it.  Again, there may be alternative but we're not seeing one on our end, at least right now.  

I do wonder if perhaps you might delay your attendance here until next fall.  Happy to talk to you on the phone about this.  Excited to see you in Spring 2013.

Forest

Forest Wagner
Assistant Professor and Program Director, Outdoor Studies
University of Alaska Southeast
(907)796-6361

here goes nothing..

first off,
I apologize for not writing sooner, it has certainly been a long haul getting all of this information and paperwork together and I still have so much farther to go. Now I'm at this stand still, a dilemma, if you will. After accepting my placement at the University of Alaska Southeast for the spring 2013 semester, I now may have to change my plans.

first plan:

go to UAS for spring 2013 semester
get away from Farmington
meet new people
try new things
come home

second plan:

heard there was an Outdoor Studies program which sounds really great
I can get a certificate out of it if I go for two semesters
go to UAS for spring and fall 2013 semester
get certificate
come home

third plan:

apply for Outdoor Studies certificate program
find out that I got half accepted
would prefer if I delay my departure or attend for three semesters
come home summer 2014

problem #1: if I attend UAS for three semesters, then I miss UMF graduation.
problem #2: I also miss my senior seminar class and won't receive the 8 more credits of rehab elective courses that I need to graduate.
problem #3: because I missed those vital classes in the graduation process I won't graduate on time.
problem #4: I would have to go to school at UMF for another semester (if everything works out) and graduate in the winter of 2014.
problem #5: I would essentially be transferring and would be giving up seeing my friends and her for a very long time.
problem #6: I planned on not getting involved for fear of making my decisions more complicated, it seems that I have recently made it more difficult to make these decisions.



What do I do now?

i accept...