divine angst

In-State Financial Aid Office recently notified me that I can’t receive financial aid because I haven’t been admitted to any program for the fall.

Huh? Yeah, basically, I took one undergraduate class under my maiden name, and so I’m in the student system with that name. When my FAFSA came in, they went looking for my SSN and found it—under my maiden name. But I was admitted to In-State Law School under my married name.

So, somehow, all these systems can’t talk to each other and see that I, with the same SSN and campus electronic identity but two last names, am really one person, and just merge all my data. I’m not going to be attending In-State Law school, but I would like to know how much aid I might get from them. So I have to take my marriage certificate (or a certified copy) all the way to campus, to the Registrar’s Office (and this is a HUGE pain because there is no parking anywhere near there) and have them change my name in the student system.

This, even though I’ve changed my name in the EMPLOYEE system. But even those two databases apparently don’t talk to each other.

Seriously? Totally annoying.