COSC - My Honest Opinion

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I'm glad your experience with COSC has been smooth. 

I applied to COSC in June and am still waiting for a transfer credit review (partly my fault for not getting them AP scores from the start). Still, I feel like I'm going back and forth with them in e-mails and am talking to a brick wall.

In my experience (two separate sets of conversations, several years apart... a false start back to school...)  the (same) admissions advisor assigned to me was impossible to reach and very slow to respond to anything. The person would email me, I'd respond literally 30 seconds later with the information, and, literally, no response for over a week.  On more than one occasion.  Various excuses... "out of the office" ... "busy"... "on leave"...   So if you happened to get that particular person, that may be the issue.

Once I finally wrote to the admissions director, Bob Frederick, he took me on himself, made time the next day for a phone consult, and was extremely responsive. Unfortunately, he retired.  Most recently, I worked with Shawn Hallliday, who was also extremely responsive. I ended up at TESU because needing half of the number of UL credits at TESU compared to COSC, and having nearly all my credits accepted (COSC found various reasons to not accept large numbers of my credits) made it a no-brainer.

I've wondered how many people go somewhere else because of this particular admissions advisor, or if my experience, several years apart, just happened to be a fluke.