<p>So I had an appointment with my counselor (was waiting for 2 weeks). It was supposed to be "academic planning". All she did was pull up <a href="http://www.assist.org%5B/url%5D">www.assist.org</a> in her computer and made me a schedule for the next two semester...I was like ***....I asked her "can you give me any tips for transfer success". She says "yea, just keep up your grades". Gee, I could never have known that by myself.</p>
<p>haha i didnt even bother meeting mine. i just registered for classes. the whole administration at my school is more or less useless. i called the finaid office the other day because it said i was missing a required form (that i had turned in 3days earlier) and they told me to just be patient and hung up on me. i had started to ask another question...and she just hung up. even though...i can't start my classes unless that form is in their computers...ugh i cannot wait to transfer out of this place!</p>
<p>Hey at least ur counselor doesn't give u wrong info, unlike mine. Thats the worst. Another poster here said his counselor discourages students from applying to top UC and just tells them to go UCSC or something.</p>
<p>yea, they do that here too. the school has transfer agreements with all the UMass schools, so they think we're crazy if we mention a top tier LAC...or even a middle LAC...basically...they think you're crazy if you want to go anywhere but UMass</p>
<p>then i guess you go to a public school?
i knew my counselor for 2 years, i ranked top 5 in my grade of over 300 students, and i got awards for the school... and she wasn't willing to say i was "responsible, and academically capable of doing well at my post-secondary school" b/c she was afraid that if i didn't get all As, she would have a bad reputation as a counselor!
and she only checked off excellent for the boxes, instead of like top 2% or something...
and she said i didn't take the most rigorous course... b/c i could have gone to another school (34miles away) in my region and taken more rigorous courses!!!
i was so fking pi$$ed off... i even bought her chocolate for xmas!
some counselors in public schools are lazy whores!</p>
<p>Wait, cinders, are you from umass-amherst?! I'm going to be a freshman there in 3 days and I already plan to transfer out- still deciding whether spring or fall- depending If I feel I can go there for a year without pulling my hair out-I'm a theatre major- and I want O-U-T already!</p>
<p>no, i thought about going there but i decided to go to community college instead, it's alot cheaper and my classes are smaller. the honors program at Umass amherst is better, but...i'm paying almost 10,000 less that i would have at amherst...didn't seem worth it. btw i'm at north shore community, in danvers. are you from mass originally? i hear Umass Amherst is quite the hell hole. is it as much of a party school as people describe?</p>
<p>no I go to community colleg</p>
<p>No, actually I'm from NY, and it is absolutley killing me to leave- I am so depressed to leave NY for the hellohole. I'm going there because I was waitlisted at my top choice school (syracuse)- I'm a theatre major- and as far as I see it they have a crap program- I can't wait to transfer out- My parents keep telling me to wait untul i'm there for a week and see how it goes- I can tell you already that I hate it, and I haven't even spent more than 2 days there (2 nights during orientation) I hope to god I will be in manhattan this spring/ fall in a city school (ie. fordham, pace, eugene lang, marymount...and so on) but yeah, It's diffcult going to a school where 88% of the pop. is from mass and they all think your an alien comming from ny, and where the mass. gpa for admissions is a 2.0 and out of state is a 3.5- awesome- yeah so i'm looking foward to being really dissapointed and getting outta there asap- (I know I sound really, really, negative, but I hate it- I hope I'm pleasantly surprised but..99.9% I won't be- and the fact that the school is 18,000 people and a #9 party school- I totally despise it already- but i'm a very ambitious girl who nkows what she wants as a career and program and I won't let that crap school get me down- I'm a fighter! (sorry for the rant, I have a lot of hatred towards this school already)</p>
<p>yea, i know what youre saying. the out of state tuition is not worth the quality of the school. at least you're willing to give it a shot, i'm sure there are pleasent people there and maybe you'll find a niche. are you going into the honors college? i've heard from my friends that it's a good program, and alot of the people aren't as hardcore into partying as the rest of the school.</p>
<p>No, I am no, I was going to enroll but i decided not too. It just really get under my skin that out of state kids have to be at least a A- student to get in where as if you live i mass you can bea C student. I feel so guilty making my paretns pay all this money- I can tell you I can't wait to get the hell out and come back to NY- I know, everyone says "give it a shot" but if every time you think about you you suddenly feel the urge to vomit and run away, it's no good-</p>
<p>hahahah i was trying to be positive for you :) i wouldn't want to spend a semester or a year there either! eh don't feel guilty, your parents were pushing you to go. they let anyone in from massachusetts. if you're instate all you need is a pulse. plus the gov'ts been cutting funding to state schools like crazy...so they are going to get worse before they get any better...my sympathies to you! i hope you can escape as quickly as you'd like to.</p>
<p>lol my counselor scheduled my courses with me..</p>
<p>but i changed all of them myself..</p>
<p>There's really only that much that can and needs to be said about transfering from a CCC to a UC or CSU. It's all about what classes you take and the GPA you get.</p>
<p>My "counselor" (a.k.a. someone barely affiliated with the university) just basically told me how to enroll classes in the website... THAT'S IT. Since I transferred to Depaul University for really just the autumn quarter, I didn't know their weird requirements and odd "learning domains" ("understanding the past, self, society, and the modern world, religious dimensions"), and when I asked the "counselor," she assumed I didn't understand what they represented. I knew they represented the Liberal arts core stuff, but what I wondered was what the titles meant. "Self, society, and the modern world" isn't like history, or humanities, or english. That counseling session alone has me not want to pay their tuition.</p>
<p>another counselor story: one of my friends who is an EE major (same as mine) wasted one WHOLE year because his counselor told him to take bullcrap GE courses like Reading and Economics...which he didn't really need to complete for transferring to a UC. In fact he didn't even know about assist.org (until I showed him) and that he had to take differential equations and linear algebra....his counselor just told him about Calc I, II, and III. What a freakin' waste of time.</p>
<p>Had I listened to my counsler I'd still have another at least another year at my CC. My orignal plan had me taking 3 years to finsh at my CC, as well as 3 summers worth of work. After doing a bit of work on my own (thanks to assist) I cut that down and finshed up last year, without having to do summer school.</p>
<p>many high school teachers don't care about students...
and many counselors are just the teachers who don't care about students and can't teach... so they are counselors, but they know nothing about counselling... they are just people who leech off our tax dollars and are protected by the union! when i become a powerful political person, i am going to petition to have my counselors and teachers put in asylums, so they'll never terriorize high school students again!</p>
<p>College counselors are stupid. I had to make an appointment, waste several hours, and got nothing out of the meeting in the end. I shouldn't have wasted my time. I went in and after a few minutes, I ended up completing every single sentence that was coming out of the counselor's mouth. I had done enough research to know everything she had to say. Then to make it worse, she pointed out only the obvious courses that I should take and left it at 12 units, which I took to 23 and now 18 and bouncing between 13 and 18 since I am on a waitlist for chem, sooooo annoying (that's what I get for setting up at a community college at the last few weeks before school starts.....ugh....).</p>
<p>i spoke w/my counselor on the phone today and she advised me not to take more than 9-12units...and at my school that's two three credit classes and a four credit science class...seriously...it would take me years to transfer the hell out of here if i took classes at that rate! i ended up taking 19 and i plan on taking 22 next semester... i set up at my community college about 3weeks before the start of classes and i never got off the wait list for chemistry...it sucks...now i have to take bio and i really dont want to dissect animals....bleh</p>