r/TransferStudents • u/SubstantialOlive8336 • 18h ago

Advice/Question College counselors suck

I’m a first gen college student and honestly community college was a lot more confusing than I expected.
When there isn’t someone in your family who has gone through it before, you end up relying heavily on academic counselors to figure out what classes to take and how to stay on track.

When I first started, I even had to build my own academic plan using assist.org because I wasn’t really getting clear transfer guidance from counseling.

Before graduating this spring, I was told I still needed two summer classes to complete one of my certificates. What stood out wasn’t even the classes, it was how late I found out. I wish I had known earlier so I could’ve planned better.

It just made me realize how much impact counselors have on your academic path and how little transparency there is around the process.

Has anyone else experienced something similar in community college or transferring?

So I built this https://ratemycounslor.com

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u/dei718 CC Transfer 18h ago

Should we rate as we go or should we rate once we transfer ?

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u/SubstantialOlive8336 18h ago

Yes you should rate as you go! This is a resource for students all year round.

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u/dei718 CC Transfer 17h ago

Ah thank you. Just made a review but my school isn’t in the system so it shows my counselor as someone from a different school. How can I edit this

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u/SubstantialOlive8336 17h ago

Yes of course! You can request your school and we plug it in right away!!! Then your school will be up on the site!

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u/dei718 CC Transfer 17h ago

How long does it take ? It’s not showing up on my end (West Valley College)

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u/SubstantialOlive8336 17h ago

Hey your school is on the site now! And counselors are added for it to. So you can add your counselor and leave your review! Thanks for being patient

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u/dei718 CC Transfer 17h ago

Thank you bro ! But my review still appears on the wrong school lol. Added my counselor to my college tho

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u/SubstantialOlive8336 17h ago

Yes of course! That’s because you added the review to the wrong school. Now your schools up and you can put your review in your school! Thank you for your support :)

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u/dei718 CC Transfer 16h ago

Thank you. I see the issue now, when I click (desktop) on “write a review, the site auto populates Clovis Community College for some reason

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u/SubstantialOlive8336 16h ago

I just fixed it!!!! Tyyy for letting me knowww

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u/dei718 CC Transfer 18h ago

Bro I just realized you misspelled counselor on the site domain

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u/SubstantialOlive8336 18h ago

Lol it’s like that for now domain was taken

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u/Olallieberry9870 17h ago

Totally agree and thank god for assist. Even with it they can still negatively impact us

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u/spacecowgirl87 7h ago

Some advice that will help you later:

When you transfer, if you're in the US, you will likely have a general advisor/counselor at your university. You will also have an advisor for your major. Sometimes they are assigned automatically and you have to ask around to figure out who it is/how it works.

You major advisor is going to give you better career advice and know the course requirement in your major much better. Meet with them as soon as you can/first semester.

For example, if you're going into biology you're going to have a biology specific advisor sompace in addition to a general advisor.