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| - My 700th Yelp review!
I graduated from UNLV Fall of '12 as a transfer student from Oklahoma State University exactly one year ago to the day. I started Spring of '11. If you have the money, I implore you to choose to attend a different school.
I transfered because my parents couldn't afford the $26k/ year out-of-state tuition they were paying for me to attend OSU. I had about 68 credit hours, including about 18 hours of senior level classes. I also had CLEP credit for English I & II. CLEP is a nationally recognized test that allows you to test out of college level courses.
Well after OSU I did some CC classes in California. Italian, Biology... Just random classes that I thought were interesting. I had about 40 credit hours of cc classes.
Guess how many credits from OSU were accepted by UNLV, a school that isn't ranked anywhere near OSU? ZERO. They accepted ZERO credit hours from a great state university, and accepted nearly everything from the cc. Think about that...
Apart from the hotel college, which I had to take 4 classes in because I was double majoring in dietetics and journalism, this school is a joke. I was at UNLV for two full years and didn't buy a single book my entire last year. And I still made the dean's list. Yeah. I told my professor that the 400 level courses were easier than my 100 level courses at OSU - and I wasn't being facetious. There are a handful of good teachers but for the most part, if you show up and participate, you're looked at like the golden rock star child of the class.
I was heavily involved in student life. I was a two term, elected senator for the College of Health Sciences and chaired the rules and ethics committee as well as vice chaired the ways and means committee which oversaw a budget of $1.2+ million dollars in student funds. Because of my position, I was consistently present at Nevada Board of Regents meetings, fighting against tuition increases, to no avail. The top level administrators are lining their own pockets while cutting classes. Shameful.
This place runs like a zoo. Nobody has any idea what they're doing. I had to speak before the Board of Regents to complain about the hassle I was going through to get my CLEP credit recognized by the university so that I could graduate. Luckily the press was there and I got my paperwork signed off on.
You have to pay around $75 for a graduation check. It supposedly is for the counselors to verify that you have met all your requirements for graduation and can apply to graduate. I did the mandatory check, graduated and when I hadn't received my diploma by March, I called the school and they told me I hadn't graduated because I didn't take English II. (Which I had CLEP credit and a signed waiver from the provost of UNLV that had been turned in months prior to graduation.)
This didn't just happen to me. It happened to my sister and multiple friends - and we all graduated in different semesters in different majors. The graduation check is just a way to scam another $75 out of you.
Luckily I keep amazing records and marched down and demanded they fix their errors. They didn't contact me to say I was missing a credit, after I graduated, I had to contact them to see where my diploma was. They straightened it out because of my record keeping. Surprise surprise. I did graduate.
Good riddance.
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