First I went to the walk-in advising office for the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I talked with an adviser for several minutes, and she concluded that there was nothing she could do about this problem. She suggested that I go to the registrar’s office.

Apparently, they had to put the registrar’s office on the eleventh floor. I got on the elevator, and after pausing at the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 10th floors, I finally made it to the 11th floor. I looked out the office windows and realized that this was the highest point I’ve been at in Madison, so I decided to snap a picture.

Unfortunately, the people at the registrar’s office also didn’t know how to solve my problem, and they suggested that I go to the place that actually receives the AP score report directly from College Board, the admissions department.

At this point it felt like I was calling a customer service line for a too-large-for-its-own-good company, and was being forwarded over and over again from department to department. The only problem was that instead of going from line to line like in a phone call, I had to walk from building to building.

I finally made it to the building that was home of the admissions department. Of course, admissions had to be on the upper-most floor, so I got on the elevator. When I looked at the buttons, I realized that admissions wasn’t exactly on the third floor – it was just labeled that way. Apparently there are multiple subfloors between the first and second floors and the second and third floors, making the third floor more or less the sixth or seventh floor.

After finally reaching the admissions desk, I had a small chat explaining my problem, and they told me to fill out a yellow message form that would be delivered to someone that could solve my problem. This sort of defeated the purpose of my elongated trip because I planned on solving the problem in person, but I was rapidly running out of options so I explained my problem for the fifth time, this time in words on paper.

Believe it or not, it worked – the following morning at 6:05 AM, someone re-evaluated my Advanced Placement scores and I got all my credits.

Two hours later, a staff adviser I had emailed two or three days prior to my quest responded to my email saying, “I just checked your account and it appears to be that everything is entered properly, what exactly is the problem you are having?”