For the most part, you can ignore this piece and go straight to the problem.
First, the conundrum.
Long story short, I applied for the Art Institute of Philadelphia in my senior year of college. Accepted, my dad said it was expensive and suggested that I take my gen eds at the local community college and transfer.
That community college sucked ass.
Since day one, the classes I took were bad. I had to rely on teaching myself the course in a few subjects rather than rely on our teachers whose teaching methods were sub-par at best. My advisor (who got fired because he was always late to his classes, never showed up, and found to have illegal drugs) prepared me to graduate from the college despite having it in writing that I planned to transfer and he signed and approved it.
My transfer coordinator caught wind of this and said, "wtf?" and pointed me in the right direction of transfer. Sadly, due to that, I have to spend another semester in this god-abandoned college and not get my AAS degree.
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Now for what happened.
The Art Institute is having a meeting with me next week. I can still come into their fall semester.
The problem: I'm in my fall semester for this college as well. I'm also expecting to have an interview with Parsons sometime next week or the week after, and so is the School of Visual Arts and Rowan U (these colleges reside in New York City and New Jersey).
The Art Institute is ready to say, "Welcome to our Student Body" soon, I'm sure. Hopefully they won't say it at the meeting, but it sounds like they really want me in, especially since the admission person got to know me and speaks to me down to the personal level since 2003. But I'd LOVE to be in Parsons or the SVA instead.
The question: Should I accept the AI and ditch the community college for the fall semester? Or should I stay with the community college until the end of fall and see what Parsons and the SVA has and apply for their spring semester? I've yet to set up an interview with them but will have one set up for this week or the next.
I'll give more info if you need it.
cliffs:
-Stuck in community college for one more semester to get the REAL transferrable classes done. I'll be done at the end of the fall semester.
-College A says they can take me into their fall semester (don't know what year in the student body I'd be in). I have an interview with them next Wed, pretty sure they're going to accept me.
-College B (etc..) are more prestigious and I've yet to put in an interview with them and I plan to be with them spring, including College A (initially).
-Read the question to see what I'm asking to do.
First, the conundrum.
Long story short, I applied for the Art Institute of Philadelphia in my senior year of college. Accepted, my dad said it was expensive and suggested that I take my gen eds at the local community college and transfer.
That community college sucked ass.
Since day one, the classes I took were bad. I had to rely on teaching myself the course in a few subjects rather than rely on our teachers whose teaching methods were sub-par at best. My advisor (who got fired because he was always late to his classes, never showed up, and found to have illegal drugs) prepared me to graduate from the college despite having it in writing that I planned to transfer and he signed and approved it.
My transfer coordinator caught wind of this and said, "wtf?" and pointed me in the right direction of transfer. Sadly, due to that, I have to spend another semester in this god-abandoned college and not get my AAS degree.
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Now for what happened.
The Art Institute is having a meeting with me next week. I can still come into their fall semester.
The problem: I'm in my fall semester for this college as well. I'm also expecting to have an interview with Parsons sometime next week or the week after, and so is the School of Visual Arts and Rowan U (these colleges reside in New York City and New Jersey).
The Art Institute is ready to say, "Welcome to our Student Body" soon, I'm sure. Hopefully they won't say it at the meeting, but it sounds like they really want me in, especially since the admission person got to know me and speaks to me down to the personal level since 2003. But I'd LOVE to be in Parsons or the SVA instead.
The question: Should I accept the AI and ditch the community college for the fall semester? Or should I stay with the community college until the end of fall and see what Parsons and the SVA has and apply for their spring semester? I've yet to set up an interview with them but will have one set up for this week or the next.
I'll give more info if you need it.
cliffs:
-Stuck in community college for one more semester to get the REAL transferrable classes done. I'll be done at the end of the fall semester.
-College A says they can take me into their fall semester (don't know what year in the student body I'd be in). I have an interview with them next Wed, pretty sure they're going to accept me.
-College B (etc..) are more prestigious and I've yet to put in an interview with them and I plan to be with them spring, including College A (initially).
-Read the question to see what I'm asking to do.