Don't transfer here!
Written: Jan 06 '01
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Pros: Good courses and resources
Cons: Terrible administration and asinine transfer policies
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| ksu96's Full Review: University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
First off, this epinion is very specific: attending UNL is fine, transferring here, however, is miserable. I write from the perspective of having watched my wife try and try again to decode the administrative morass in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to make her prior coursework count.
All colleges have core requirements. UNL does, too. Nonetheless, UNL divides its core requirements into Essential Studies, Integrative Studies, or neither. All students must take a certain number of ES courses and a certain number of IS courses, all while fulfilling their core requirements. For example, Biology 101 might fulfill the Natural Sciences requirement, and possibly one ES requirement as well. Thus, one must choose carefully or risk being in school for the next 10 years.
Transfer students, however, must choose even more carefully: even though UNL will allow you to transfer in your credit hours and core requirements, you are generally not allowed to use those very same courses to fulfill ES or IS courses. Thus, if you started at UNL and took Biology 101, you'd fulfill two requirements: Natural Sciences and ES. If, however, you took Biology 101 elsewhere and transferred into UNL, you'd get Natural Science credit for Biology 101, but you would not get ES credit for it. This is a definite trap of which transfer students must be aware! If you don't know this in advance and plan properly, you will have to take significantly more courses to graduate than will students who began at UNL.
Also, major courses frequently transfer as electives, not major requirements. UNL seems to believe that only its courses are good enough to satisfy major requirements. Again, if you start at UNL you'll be fine. If, however, you transfer here, be careful.
Finally, the administration itself is a nightmare. Granted, everything eventually got done, but it's very clear that the administration views students as numbers and tuition checks rather than human beings. It was astounding the number of times my wife and I wrangled with them over asinine transfer and financial aid policies.
The school is fine, at least as far as the learning and resources go, but prospective transfer students really should think twice about entering UNL late in the game: it may not be worth it at any price.
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Member: David
Location: Papillion, Nebraska
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