I sent in my application that had transfer credits in the general education stuff from a defunct art college. I called ahead and reviewed it with the lady over the phone, and she said it was good and I would be a CPA when the state accounting board approved the new applications next week.

Cut to next week, I miss a phone call when I'm out to lunch. I get back to the office and return the call, and it's the little old lady who accepts the CPA applications and reviews them. She wants to let me know that all those general education credits are only worth half a credit each, and so I don't have enough college credits, and so my application won't be submitted to the board. She wants me to call her back if I have questions, because she's submitting all the packets to them in about an hour, and if I'm not on the agenda by then, I will have to wait until they convene again in 2 months to accept the next wave of applicants.

I frantically call her back. She is reading my transcript from the defunct art college. She says "It says here that they converted their system as of July 1, 20XX, and so all credits after that were worth only a half credit hour each." I am reading along with her. I say "Ah, yes! I see. All credits earned AFTER that date! My credits are from several years BEFORE that change was made!" She is silent, then repeats " ...it says that after this date, they're worth a half credit each. Not a full credit". I'm losing my mind.

I calmly explain to her again "But the credits on my transcript are for the time period prior to the change, and thus are worth a full credit hour each, which is consistent with the note on the transcript." She is silent for awhile, reading and re-reading it to herself. Then she says "OH! I see, okay. I'll change it then.", followed by "BOY, you got really lucky. I was about to take this packet of applications down and submit them, and then you'd have had to wait for the next round of CPA approvals in a few months. You probably should have called me back sooner!"

I was approved and got my CPA license. The physical license arrived in the mail a few weeks later. Of course, they incorrectly did not have the seal affixed to them when they were mailed, so we were instructed to throw all of those away and await our new batch of corrected CPA licenses in the mail from the state board which did contain the seal. Those followed a few weeks later. I have a sneaking suspicion that I know who was responsible for mailing those out. What a fun time.