The College of Westchester

I'm sorry I wasted my time and money going back to this college. I am being told that my "attitude" is the problem for my unsuccessful job search, when in fact, the Director of Career Services and the entire department doesn't care about alumni at all. I feel as if I have been ignored and thrown in the trash. Please, do yourself a favor and avoid this school. The entire staff are fake. In fact, they fired the financial aid advisor who worked at the college for 16 years and replaced him with a younger person because of his experience and salary.

Alumna Female -- Class 2000

Preparedness: A+ Reputation: F

I was always very bored by school, but after a few dead end jobs, I figured I really needed a degree. The College of Westchester was a convienant school so I decided to apply. I was pretty much instantly accepted, they never even waited to see my high school transcripts. I took the entrance exam, which the enrollment counselor told me I got a perfect score on, so I thought, great, maybe I can skip some boring courses, but I was mistaken. My second semester I was put in a college math course, college being loosely used. I'm pretty sure I was smarter than the teacher, even corrected him a few times. I got so bored with the course that I stopped going and just showed up for the exams, got a perfect score on all of them and ended up with a B+ because of attendance. One year and $15,000 later, I realized this school wasn't for me. I ended up getting a job that I really like, no thanks to this education, and dropped out of the COW. I decided I still wanted my degree, so I transferred to Western Governor's University, an online non profit school(much more affordable), but unfortunately they only accepted 12 of my 30 credits that i earned at the COW. In conclusion, if you want to go to a school that doesn't really challenge you, I didn't feel challeged once in the year I was there, than feel free to throw your money away here at this very tiny overpriced school.

Male -- Class 2000