Should COSC Lose Stand Alone Category Here?

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I agree! I had a terrible experience with COSC and withdrew my application last week. Terrible communication, repeated emails, a bit of attitude, and coming in with over 114 credits, I was looking at about 40 on transfer. I was very confused and thought I met everything to take their two classes. In addition, I referred two other people to them to do the 114 transfer and they had the same experience. We've all applied to UMPI.

How many of those 114 credits were RA?

I had taken 7 classes at a local community college, so 21. I also have licensure and certifications in real estate, certified nursing assistant, marketing, and substitute teaching. They did send me an email stating I'd get 9 credits for the real estate. I also have 37 Sophia classes and a few on Straighterline too. It was a terrible experience going back and forth between lack of communication and repeatedly asking me for information they already had. There was some annoyance with me following up or asking questions and I felt that they were overwhelmed and/or unorganized. After three of us who know each other and what our transcripts look like, all being told we'd get like 40-60 transfer credits when we all attempted to go for the 114 they are "known" to offer, was a waste of time. While I haven't received my official evaluation from UMPI either at this point, I did run my info through the forum and feel a lot more confident with the communication and process with the school up to this point. I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but achieving the max 90 credit transfer into UMPI will likely happen for me, and my two friends who moved on from COSC.

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I agree! I had a terrible experience with COSC and withdrew my application last week. Terrible communication, repeated emails, a bit of attitude, and coming in with over 114 credits, I was looking at about 40 on transfer. I was very confused and thought I met everything to take their two classes. In addition, I referred two other people to them to do the 114 transfer and they had the same experience. We've all applied to UMPI.

How many of those 114 credits were RA?

I had taken 7 classes at a local community college, so 21. I also have licensure and certifications in real estate, certified nursing assistant, marketing, and substitute teaching. They did send me an email stating I'd get 9 credits for the real estate. I also have 37 Sophia classes and a few on Straighterline too. It was a terrible experience going back and forth between lack of communication and repeatedly asking me for information they already had. There was some annoyance with me following up or asking questions and I felt that they were overwhelmed and/or unorganized. After three of us who know each other and what our transcripts look like, all being told we'd get like 40-60 transfer credits when we all attempted to go for the 114 they are "known" to offer, was a waste of time. While I haven't received my official evaluation from UMPI quite yet, I did run my info through the forum and feel a lot more confident with the communication and process with the school up to this point. I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but achieving the max 90 credit transfer into UMPI will likely happen for me, and my two friends who moved on from COSC.

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I agree! I had a terrible experience with COSC and withdrew my application last week. Terrible communication, repeated emails, a bit of attitude, and coming in with over 114 credits, I was looking at about 40 on transfer. I was very confused and thought I met everything to take their two classes. In addition, I referred two other people to them to do the 114 transfer and they had the same experience. We've all applied to UMPI.

UMPI is having issues though now, they can't keep up with demand. More students flooding in without staffing increases will cause a quality drop.

I'm taking their growth and bandwidth issues into consideration, however there's no denying their great reputation for being a fantastic school. I have to say that the amount of times they respond to my emails promptly while this flood of growth is all taking place tells me these people care and work from a great existing foundation. It's no wonder people want to be here and thanks to social media, it's not a sleepy small town secret anymore. I'm confident they will scale as smoothly as possible and through the bumps will communicate. Communication has been key for me. Being part of the larger University of Maine system should give them support in their growing infrastructure as well. I have a little fear of missing out with this school myself, so I'm really looking forward to going here.