Screwed

The Faculty of Grad Studies wrote me a letter turning down my application and insinuating that I was not up to snuff. I called and asked for clarification of the reasons. The answerer said that I would have to find that out from the dept. I said the dept recommended me for acceptance. She said then it's usually because of low GPA. I said my GPA is over 4.0. She tranferred my call.

The next answerer looked up my file and said that the University does not recognize my degrees. She said that the dept could appeal it but decided not to. She said I could appeal.

I then talked to the person who is in charge of the program that my studenship was supposed to be through. He let it be known that he did not agree with the decision (using the word "lousy" and saying this was not the university's finest hour), that the dept had appealed and that the dean of graduate studies just decided not to go further with it. He said he hadn't known up til now that the university had issues with degrees from religious institutions. In the meantime, my studentship has to go to someone else.

I am alternating between sad, angry and numb. I put a message into the Human Rights Commission as I'm wondering if I can fight this as religious discrimination.