re: #158 Joanne

As long as you do not say you got the degree, a potential employer cannot obtain your school records. Schools only confirm whether you received the degree or not (possibly GPA, not sure about that).

When I went to work for a company, they asked me about the “discrepancy” as my U had no record me - not just of my not yet graduating - and I pointed to the bullet on my resume that said roughly “near completion of BA in blah with a 3.8/4.0 GPA, member of multiple national honor societies, etc.” because I would never say I had graduated when I had not.

As to how BAH handled it, they could have done a verbal (like a defense of a dissertation) to determine if he had knowledge and then said FTW as to the actual degree.

I take issue with this approach, though, because if the federal government requires a degree, so should contractors.

Still, he’s claiming to have been in the process of obtaining a master’s when we’ve not even seen proof that he obtained an associate’s degree, let alone a bachelor’s.