10-05-2023, 05:57 PM
COSC has literally done everything humanly possible to drive people away. They have changed many of their degree-completion policies. They have eliminated much of the ACE credit they used to allow. They have added additional requirements that are difficult to complete outside of a class at COSC. And quite a few other things.
Their admissions process (at least for me, and I went through it twice, abotu 5 years apart) is arduous and bureaucracy filled. One of their admissions counselors, who I got assigned to both times, is useless; she never returned any my calls or emails, when she did respond (often 10+ days after I had emailed), I responded within minutes... only to sit in radio silence for more days. This wasn't isolated; it happened multiple times, on both admissions processes.
COSC accepted way fewer of my credits (nearly all of which were from conventional accredited bricks-and-mortar schools) than either Excelsior or TESU. And there was a strong sense they wanted me to spend money with them rather than complete the credits in lower cost ways.
And the final nail in the coffin for me: About a year ago, they reached out to me, and apparently a lot of other folks who applied to COSC but ended up going to another school. They paid each of us $150 for a focus group where the focus group leader collected all sorts of data, in excruciating detail, about why they were so awful and what they could do to fix it. Almost everyone on the call was in a similar situation to mine: familiar with the other degree completion schools, and chose another school over COSC because of their utter nonresponsiveness and bureaucratic incompetence.
And as near as I can tell, after paying out thousands of dollars to get information on why they were not getting students, and how they could fix the problem, it appears that they have done absolutely nothing to change their student-hostile policies.
I really can see no reason why COSC is a remotely appropriate choice that should be promoted as a realistic option when there are really excellent alternatives like TESU, Excelsior and UMPI.
Their admissions process (at least for me, and I went through it twice, abotu 5 years apart) is arduous and bureaucracy filled. One of their admissions counselors, who I got assigned to both times, is useless; she never returned any my calls or emails, when she did respond (often 10+ days after I had emailed), I responded within minutes... only to sit in radio silence for more days. This wasn't isolated; it happened multiple times, on both admissions processes.
COSC accepted way fewer of my credits (nearly all of which were from conventional accredited bricks-and-mortar schools) than either Excelsior or TESU. And there was a strong sense they wanted me to spend money with them rather than complete the credits in lower cost ways.
And the final nail in the coffin for me: About a year ago, they reached out to me, and apparently a lot of other folks who applied to COSC but ended up going to another school. They paid each of us $150 for a focus group where the focus group leader collected all sorts of data, in excruciating detail, about why they were so awful and what they could do to fix it. Almost everyone on the call was in a similar situation to mine: familiar with the other degree completion schools, and chose another school over COSC because of their utter nonresponsiveness and bureaucratic incompetence.
And as near as I can tell, after paying out thousands of dollars to get information on why they were not getting students, and how they could fix the problem, it appears that they have done absolutely nothing to change their student-hostile policies.
I really can see no reason why COSC is a remotely appropriate choice that should be promoted as a realistic option when there are really excellent alternatives like TESU, Excelsior and UMPI.
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