( CNN ) -- California Gov . Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday called on the state bar to overlook a technical error and allow a paralyzed law school graduate to take the bar exam next week . Arnold Schwarzenegger says a technical error should n't stop the law school graduate from taking the bar exam . `` It is outrageous that someone who has overcome so much in life is penalized by a bureaucratic error that prevents her from taking the bar exam next week , '' the governor said in a statement . `` Government should work for the people , not against them , and I 'm calling on the state bar to allow Sara Granda to take next week 's test . Sara is a fighter , and I am with her all the way . '' The state bar 's Web site never processed Granda 's application for Tuesday 's test because California 's Department of Rehabilitation paid her $ 600 fee with a check , according to the Sacramento Bee . The Web site requires a credit card number , but Granda said she was assured by a state bar representative that she was properly registered with the check , the newspaper reported . Granda , 29 , a University of California-Davis Law School graduate , has petitioned the California Supreme Court to allow her to take Tuesday 's test . She said she was `` surprised '' to hear about Schwarzenegger 's statement in her defense . `` I 'm not used to a lot of attention , '' she told CNN television affiliate KCRA . She said she went to the governor 's office last week , `` but they would n't let me in . '' `` So I knew there was no way that the governor was going to get involved , '' she said . Granda was paralyzed from the neck down after a car accident in 1997 , when she was 17 . The accident happened a month before she was to attend California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo , on a full scholarship , according to the Sacramento Bee . Granda , who has been studying 11 hours a day for the bar exam with the help of assistants , said she wants the state of California to resolve the matter because it spent about $ 100,000 for her education . `` I worked very , very hard for every cent , '' she told KCRA . `` So for everything to come together in the end and for it to just kind of fall through on such a minor , minor detail . ''
Bar 's Web site did n't process Sara ##i 's decision to take the exam . Granda , 29 , was paralyzed from the neck down after a car accident in 1997 . She was 17 at that time , and about to go to college in California . Review : ` ` Outrageous '' that she 's being ` ` ' for a bureaucratic error ''