In my situation, i had good academic standing. I became out of status because i was taking classes in different branch of same school and had an I-20 from different branch. It kind of was my advisor's fault because i had been in contact with her the whole time. So i got her to support me on all that time. May be ask your advisor to contact them. I was on top of it the whole time. it did take me around 4 and half month or so. I actually applied for OPT after that and got that too. I completely understand the stress tigerman. I use feel like i could not breath at times.good luck!!