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I'm going back Thursday to talk to the actual registrar. Oh, am I mad! I'll hand him his head on a platter if need be, but I want my minor!

I got a note (this was pre-email) from the math department a month before graduation. It said I couldn't graduate because I didn't take all the required classes as spelled out in the 1965 catalog (am I dating myself here?). I rushed in to the office the next day with my transcript for my eight credits for my 1964 advanced placement freshman calculus I took in high school, and the 1964 catalog that I was admitted under.

After I pointed out that I met all the course requirements of the 1964 catalog, the secretary admitted that she hadn't noticed that, and just sent out a zinger to me along with the poor schmucks who really weren't graduating.

Most of the others were grad students who hadn't paid the $25 graduation fee. I heard one of them whining to her department advisor, who was my advisor, too. Standing in the hallway, I heard my advisor tell the grad student, "I'm really sorry you missed the notice on the math department bulletin board. But it's partly our fault. Once you get your bachelor's, the math department does all the thinking for you, relieving you of all responsibility of even looking at the board. That's why I prefer advising the undergrads, because we require them to think for themselves. Once you get to grad school, we ask you to turn your brain off."

Okay, Winmag has another point here Jen that could work in your favor. Although Pennsylvania MAY be different from Texas on this.

Here a student who has been continuously attending classes can graduate under any catalogue issued during his tenure at the school. I'm not sure if you've been in this school more than one year - but, if so, it might be to your benefit to check out each catalogue from your time there. You never know what may have changed in the catalogues.

Also, I forgot to mention, the thing we try to do whenever a student here gets into the position you are currently in is to work within the established rules and try to give credit for any other class as the missing necesary course for the degree. Okay, so I can't give someone credit for a drafting class if they took nursing. But, I've used computer maintenance, machining, welding and other stretches of the imagination.

For math, it seems to me that there may be upper level courses that could possibly be subbed for math as you minor. Again, I don't know what classes you have, and they can't be applied both to the major and the minor, but some creative thinking might be in order.

I am just going to pray that you find someone to help you who has that creative type of thinking and who will work with you on this.

First, you gotta make sure and find what it says in the catalogue. Unfortunately that will supercede most human intervention.