Comment by vintermann

Similar story: I had taken a college level programming course before starting college. I reported this, and was told that it would either excempt me from an intro to programming class (if it was similar enough) or get credit for it towards my degree. Fair enough. After a while I was told it was different enough, and in the school software, it said I had a half-semester's worth of study point "in reserve" through all the years I studied there. In the final year, there was a small elective topic (something about engineering leadership) which seemed really uninteresting, so I thought, "it's time I finally make use of those banked points" and so didn't sign up for it.

Then after the semester was over, after a while I realized I'd only gotten a grades transcript, not a degree. Apparently I was lacking those 5 points from the elective course for that - the 40 points from my pre-college college course were mysteriously gone. Oh, and the mail I had gotten where they confirmed it counted? On the mail server, which we were mandated to use, and which they wiped the day we were done with our last semester.