<p>The councilors at my school are a joke if you want to transfer to any school out side of the state. The few times that I ventured into the Transfer Office to seek advice, the councilors just pointed to one of the computers in the room and told me to look at the particular schools website for transfer info. </p>
<p>However, my advisor has more knowledge regarding this issue; he once told me of all the schools that students from my program transferred into. Come September, I am going to meet with him to further discuss this topic. One of the biology teachers I had is an MIT alum, so I am trying to remain good with him (for the rec).</p>
<p>A transfer counselor at CCP told me that I could not or should not have tried to transfer to Temple University for the fall '07 semester while the spring '07 semester was in progress despite the fact that I already had enough credits to transfer. Regardless, I applied and got accepted...</p>
<p>I was also told that my withdrawals from some classes would indicate that I had poor time management skills -- although I kept 16 units and got straight As. Strangely, UCLA did not agree with that counselor.</p>
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<p>I transferred from CCP too. I can't believe he/she told you that because it was obviously so wrong. When I tried to transfer out after my first year, I applied to Temple during the spring '05 semester to enter in the fall '05 and was accepted. I decided to stay at CCP another year though. Yeah, like I mentioned earlier. My academic advisor was much more helpful than the transfer counselors.</p>
<p>I remember sitting in on one of my sister's counseling sessions at our community college. This is at a respected 2-year school that has a reputation for being a transfer school, especially to our state schools. He was very impressed with her academic record and told her to "reach for the stars" in terms of transferring. He didn't really know how to elaborate or how to suggest further schools, but I think this encouragement did help my sister. She researched some schools on her own and is starting at Amherst this fall.</p>
<p>As for me, I only go to the counselors if I have specific questions about school policy or a specific question about our state schools. For private colleges, I do all of the research myself.</p>
<p>I just recently transferred from a CC to a large state university. I can tell you from my experience that the counselors at my CC where essentially biased towards one local transfer university and weren't very helpful with others, even in the same state. When it came time for me to plan out my academics at the CC, I relied almost exclusively on websites of both the CC and the 3 Universities that I had planned to apply to in order to take classes that were transferable as well as meet entrance requirements for my major.<br>
So while some may have better experiences with their counselors, it was my own hard work in researching the requirements that allowed me to transfer as smoothly as I did.</p>
<p>Several counselors at my CC told me that I would be ineligible to transfer to a UC since I didn't have my college-level math done one-year before applying to transfer. So instead of waiting two years they recommended I stay a whole extra year at the CC and spend more of my money there. They also conferred with each other and told me that if my 60 units were not completed before "applying" to transfer that I would automatically be rejected.</p>
<p>No joke. </p>
<p>Then I called a UCB and a UCLA transfer coordinators and they refuted every piece of advice.</p>
<p>Mine suck, they absolutely have no idea what they're doing!!! I live in IL, so all they know how to deal with is kids who want to transfer to Illinois state. I have a 4.0 GPA so I think I can do better than that. When I told them I wanted to go out of state all they really said (and I've gone to 3 different counselers now!) was "Oh, I don't know how that all works. Talk to the school". It's ridiculous! all I've really asked that they've been able to answer was what I should do to get my transcripts sent, and even then they couldn't give me a good answer. They have no idea about how to go about the application process, no idea what sort of courses I should be taking (I've ended up just looking them up on different schools' websites and just figuring out what I need to take myself). I hate it. Harper college's counselers have just been a hindrance in education.</p>
<p>My D ended up e-mailing the schools she was interested in transferring to & asking them. They were very helpful & she as admitted to the school she wanted to transfer to, USoCal (she'll be starting as a 2nd semester sophomore in January).
I would highly recommend e-mailing the schools you're thinking of transferring to & seeing what kind of responses you get. It will give you some idea of how helpful/unhelpful they might be & may keep it in mind in your application/decision process.
Hang in there! Schools ARE interested in kids who do well in CC & it keeps your funds intact for the rest of your education, since it's MUCH cheaper than most 4-year colleges.</p>
<p>Mine were outstanding. They helped me get into some amazing institutions -- Mount Holyoke was by far my lowest ranked, even though it was my top choice -- and I feel like they really helped me prepare academically and personally for the transition. I think the people who have problems with their counselors are often the ones who aren't explicit enough when it comes to asking for help. CC counselors have to see SO many people every day, so if you just go in and say "I want to go to ____, what should I do?", yeah, they're not really going to be that helpful. You need to help them help you by doing some work yourself.</p>
<p>Also, it's only natural that they're going to be more experienced with people transferring to in-state publics. You should ask faculty members or even the counseling center staff to suggest to you counselors who can be most helpful with applying to top-tier privates and out-of-states. There's always someone available with experience with that.</p>
<p>(at a cc)
unless you know they specialize in the area you need help in or something. For accuracy tho, always talk to a rep or counselor at the school you wanna go to (if your transfering).</p>
<p>I could name 20 people I know who were screwed over becuase they trusted the couselors info without researching it themsleves.</p>
<p>They are not helpful at my cc but maybe others are diff</p>
<p>Obviously everyone has had different experiences. My D talked with ALL the counselors at her CC & her former HS, but none were really able to help her much & she pretty much made her own path. She did get into the U of her dreams and will be attending there in January. The counselors at her CC were "nice" but honestly admitted they had no idea of how to help her get anywhere but in-state flagship U (which was not where she was interested in attending). She did get into in-state flagship U but never enrolled.</p>
<p>I'm sorta in the midst of applying to transfer, and yeah I don't feel like my advisor is that much of a help. She seems to want to steer me towards the state university which is ultimately my last resort. She is pleasant to talk to but keeps giving me obscure advice. It's been a tough process... I just hope I can manage on my own.</p>