COSC - My Honest Opinion

[vanglorious]

COSC would be one of my last resort schools personally. They accept a lot of transfer credits, but not as many as some schools. I applied for an associate last June. COSC is incredibly slow. I applied in June and didn't have a transfer credit report for many months. I would still have to take 17 credits at COSC- even though I have an ungodly amount of credits. For some reason, they accepted nothing from sophia.org for me, even though my sophia.org grades are all A's. Interacting with COSC advisors is much like talking to a brick wall- not as bad as University of the People, but far worse than any random local community college or open enrollment school I've ever interacted with. Financial aid doesn't happen until after advising... and advising can take many, many months. I had to send AP transcripts from many years ago before they would be start my transfer credit report. That's fine, but I wish they would have told me before I had already waited for them for months. I should've sent them, sure, but COSC was still insanely slow. I had already applied to and graduated from Pierpont CTC before COSC was even done evaluating my credits lol.

What courses at Sophia.org did you take and what 17 credits besides the corner/cap did they say you need? They are partnered with Sophia so if they state you are missing specific Gen Ed courses you can have them reassess. They KNOW what they are doing and they are trying to force people to take more units with them.