Claremont Graduate University (Do not apply there!)

I was a doctoral candidate there within the dept of religious studies.

Once a professor has pegged you to be in his area, you better not
leave.

There are no procedures to lower aid or students down to a terminal
master's, (even if you are already in a possession of a master's from
an accredited university, and passed on your entrance exams.)

Sometimes, professors, out of anger, will do something perfunctory.
They cannot go back on it out of fear of loss of reputation, and
entire faculty will back him up. It is like the archdiocese of boston
and pedophilia.

My aid got lowered and I was removed down to a master's level with
only ***6 classes left!!!*** I was also a 48 hour candidate.

1)I was misrenderd as weak by a powerful prof. and got my aid lowered.
I had my GPAS and test results to prove it. But they neglected to take
them into consideration and proceeded to to cover it up.

2)I am an Asian minority woman. I proceeded to do coursework with some
"fellow Asian and female" profs in order to get my aid back. They
backed up his side because this prof. who misrendered me as weak will
look "unfit" as an evaluator. He is particularly influential and
powerful. They needed to push me back to him in order to correct the
misrendering.

3)I proceeded to move to a Buddhist professor. I am a practicing
Buddhist with eight generations down the line and the dept. is 100%
Christian. They stopped me from studying with a fellow religious
Buddhist within the Claremont Consortium because without me, he cannot
correct the misrendering.

4)My Catholic advisor pushed me down to a terminal master's. It took
only a day. I was above a B average with a master's degree from
another university and I have passed my entrance requirement.

Claremont also has this tendency to grade as a group in order to give
legitimacy of their evaluative criteria. But if a prof. is
discriminating, they copy that discriminating criteria over and over
again. This is what is happening to me.

As of right now, I am contacting lawyer. I was cheated out of my money
without a degree. My lawyer says, I can definite sue on eight counts
of harm and grievances. It will be painful, it will be nasty, and I
hate to do it. But they gave me no choice.

The lesson here is if your university does not have procedure to
protect both students and faculty in case of a dispute, don't go
there. Profs. need it as a means to weasel out. Students need it more
to protect from angry profs who act without thinking, and regardless
of whether they regret it or not, will have to follow through on that
decision to protect their reputation.