Advice on when to contact TESU about degree plan

[alzee]

dfrecore, I'm going to use you as an example here for a point I was making about keeping questions simple; apologies in advance! This example question though is, in my experience, *way* too complicated for TESU's academic advisers:

So, you will want to ask "I'm taking a course at XYZ college, and want to make sure that it will transfer in as the equivalent of ABC course. Can you confirm that?"

I agree 100% that this is more likely to get an answer than the other question, but it's also too subject to "interpretation" by the advisers. It would be better asked along the lines of "How does TESU count course ABC from XYZ college?"

You really want to keep these questions to advising as short and to the point as possible. Any information in the question that doesn't help them answer it should be eliminated.

Just my $0.02 after having emailed advising 20-30 times in the past year, half of them being rewording of an earlier question that TESU didn't "get" the first time.