Screwing you out of credits

[Adrian245]

I was told specifically by Jessica Winslow that my credits at NYU and Harvard would transfer as upper level credits and now they are saying that they can't confirm the content of these courses, AND THAT IT IS NOT THEIR JOB TO DO SO. WHOSE JOB IS IT?!. The end result is that instead of having to take just a few courses, I basically have to retake 2 years even though I have over 100 credits from NYU, one of the best universities in America.  DO NOT TRUST THAT THEY WILL FOLLOW THEIR WORD. ONLY ENROLL IF THEY HAVE ALREADY ALLOCATED YOUR CREDITS PROPERLY. Do not give them money. It is a SCAM. I wouldn't be surprised if certain people on this forum were actually UMPI representatives pretending to have been successful in the program.

[bluebooger]

> they can't confirm the content of these courses

you don't have a syllabus ?

[ss20ts]

I was told specifically by Jessica Winslow that my credits at NYU and Harvard would transfer as upper level credits and now they are saying that they can't confirm the content of these courses, AND THAT IT IS NOT THEIR JOB TO DO SO. WHOSE JOB IS IT?!. The end result is that instead of having to take just a few courses, I basically have to retake 2 years even though I have over 100 credits from NYU, one of the best universities in America.  DO NOT TRUST THAT THEY WILL FOLLOW THEIR WORD. ONLY ENROLL IF THEY HAVE ALREADY ALLOCATED YOUR CREDITS PROPERLY. Do not give them money. It is a SCAM. I wouldn't be surprised if certain people on this forum were actually UMPI representatives pretending to have been successful in the program.

The Registrar is who determines credit transfer at every school. Do you have the course syllabus? Can you get it if you don't have it? Were these UL courses at NYU and Harvard? Not sure why someone would go from NYU or Harvard to UMPI, but hey whatever floats your boat.

UMPI is NOT a scam! It is a university within the University of Maine system. And no I'm not an UMPI representative. I'm an alumni who completed their degree at UMPI after I transferred with college credit from 6 colleges.

[bjcheung77]

Interesting... I got confused when I read this, I read it again, still a tad confused... Anyways, do you have a spreadsheet of what transferred over and as what? How many courses in total got transferred over and what is remaining? How many credits in total do you need and how many are upper level?

More details and a bigger/fuller picture of the issue and request should be provided... I highly doubt anyone is here working for UMPI on this, this post reminds me so much about the one talking about how WGU didn't take their credits and so on so forth... can you copy/paste your evaluation or something?

[ashkir]

It is up to the register. If they cannot find a similar course to what you're transferring in they ask for a syllabus. Jessica does not decide t his.

[crotique]

I am honestly confused. This doesn't make any sense to me as they have done me very well in transfers of credits before enrollment and during enrollment, knowing I was completing courses elsewhere. 

Jessica promised me nothing. She would forward my info to whomever, and once it was the English Department who decided if I had to take a certain class or if a prior class satisfied the requirement. She was and is a liaison. I cannot help but come to her defense, as she has helped me tremendously the past 10 months.

I am also am not a UMPI representative, just a student.

[NoStudentNoCry]

It is a SCAM. 

Right. Because someone who brags about how they almost-finished-degree-at-NYU and earned credits at Harvard and then all of the sudden decides to switch to a tiny regional school in the middle of nowhere is totally telling a legit story and is absolutely not a troll.

Please do UMPI students a favor and take your money and precious credits from NYU and Harvard somewhere else. I am sure that all the nonscam great schools will be willing to take all your credits and then just hand you in a diploma.

[nomaduser]

that's ridiculous...

Why don't you try to earn upper-division RA from other online colleges and transfer back to NYU? and then graduate from NYU?

Or you can start taking upper-division online courses at NYU School of Professional Studies. They have lots of upper-division online courses. You can transfer those credits to your original NYU degree program and get a degree from NYU.

[freeloader]

I was told specifically by Jessica Winslow that my credits at NYU and Harvard would transfer as upper level credits and now they are saying that they can't confirm the content of these courses, AND THAT IT IS NOT THEIR JOB TO DO SO. WHOSE JOB IS IT?!. The end result is that instead of having to take just a few courses, I basically have to retake 2 years even though I have over 100 credits from NYU, one of the best universities in America.  DO NOT TRUST THAT THEY WILL FOLLOW THEIR WORD. ONLY ENROLL IF THEY HAVE ALREADY ALLOCATED YOUR CREDITS PROPERLY. Do not give them money. It is a SCAM. I wouldn't be surprised if certain people on this forum were actually UMPI representatives pretending to have been successful in the program.

I think you are a troll with no relationship with UMPI. Here is my reasoning:

In a prior thread, you said you were admitted for the July 5 start. You said you were pursuing a BLS with Educational Studies minor. When I was admitted, I was told that my degree audit had to be completed before I could start taking classes. You do, after all, need some idea of what classes you are going to take. Since then, the July and Aug 30 terms have started and concluded. 

So, did you actually begin taking classes in July or August?  Did you actually take classes with no idea of what you needed to graduate?  Respectfully, I don’t believe someone smart enough to be admitted to NYU could/would do that. Not for nothing: if you actually started in July, you could easily have completed 8-10 courses, more if you have the time and motivation. If that is the case, are you really coming here to blast your future alma mater as a scam because it will take you, say, 3 terms instead of 1 to get your degree?  That seems really an odd thing to do, so I don’t think you have taken a class at UMPI 

If you have not been taking classes and have only recently received your degree audit, that seems odd (odd that it would take three months), but possible, I suppose.  I am going to take everything you have said up to this point as absolute truth for the purposes of this paragraph. If that is the case, what, exactly, is your frustration?  You completed a free application at UMPI and paid perhaps $20-30 for transcripts. You received a bad evaluation that would require you to complete additional coursework. I am sure that is frustrating. You said in another post that you had received quite favorable evaluations from TESU. Why not complete your degree there?  A bad evaluation does not mean that a university is a scam. I have this sinking suspicion that if I tried to transfer to NYU, I would end up having to take quite a few courses from them, including repeating some took elsewhere. Respectfully, that does not make NYU (or UMPI) a scam. 

I also am having trouble making sense of the number of credits you are saying UMPI is wanting you to complete. The Educational Studies minor is 7 classes/21 credits. UMPI requires everyone to complete at least 30 credits in residence, so, that is a given.  UMPI requires 8 upper level courses outside the minor for the BLS, so if we assume that on your evaluation they have you zero credit for any prior upper-level work, that could put you at 15 courses (7 for the minor plus 8 UL). If your gen eds from NYU do not line up with UMPI gen eds, you could have a few more that would get you to around 20 courses, or 2 years (in conventional academic timing) to complete your degree. 

So, to clarify, did UMPI not give you any credit for your upper-level coursework?  Did you have gaps in your gen eds?  If this is the case, it is not a scam for them to expect you to meet the degree requirements. In many cases, those requirements are set by the university system or even the state legislature. Also, and I want to be clear about something, how many upper-level credits did you actually have on your transcript?  If only a few, it is not unreasonable that one or more would be accepted as lower level. 

One final question, have you talked to Jessica about this or did you just send off a post on this message board?  I had some things that were transferred in/evaluated incorrectly. I asked Jessica about it and in about a week, they were resolved. She talked to the registrar and it was all sorted out.

[ss20ts]

And no I'm not an UMPI representative. 

sounds exactly like something a UMPI representative would say 

Nixon: I am not a crook
Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman 
ss20ts: And no I'm not an UMPI representative.

Nice try. Want to see my transcripts?