Lorena took all her transcripts into the local community college north of Dallas, Texas and to say her experience there differed greatly from virtually every other community college she has attended would be an understatement. They said they would take almost none of her credits because they were taken in a quarter based system rather than a semester system. When she pointed out that most of the classes she has taken were in a semester system, they said (there were three people there looking at her paperwork), I kid you not, “We don’t care.” So in short, the facilities were shabby, the administration was surly and non-helpful, they had non-standard transfer processes, they required Lorena to take tests required for people just entering the system and not people transferring in with more than half of the credits required to graduate–and there is more, but you get the drift. It was truly a bad experience. These are the same credits accepted at better community colleges and state universities in Oregon, North Carolina and Florida. Oh well, we will find another place for her to attend. Maybe it is time for her to start at a four year college.
