Indiana University Southeast

Date: Mar 02 2015
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
Don't get me wrong—I love IUS. The professors are all wonderful and really enjoy their work and helping students. There are many different extracurriculars to take part in, and there are constantly events going on across campus.

The problem with IUS is the administration. They are a total joke. Financial aid was not able to answer any questions I had about FASFA and the advisers were just disappointing.

The day I went in to meet with an adviser I clearly told them my intended career path—to be a high school counselor—and I had asked them which major would be the right choice to pursue it. I was told Psychology and I did very well in my classes for the first year. I loved it a lot! I had a high GPA and was getting prepared for graduate school to finish out my counseling degree. When I took summer classes, the School Psychology course was opened, and I jumped on the opportunity knowing how quickly that course filled up and that it might be another year or two before I had the chance. My professor, the wonderful Dr. Terry Burger, happened to be the school psychologist for the Clark county school district. When I told him I had entered the course to prepare for counseling, he had asked me my major and dropped the bomb on me. The advisers had no idea what they were doing and put me in the wrong program—I was supposed to be in the Education major, graduate as a teacher, teach for five years, and THEN finally go back to graduate school for counseling. When I went to transfer to the school of education, I was told almost none of my previous credits would transfer over and I was knocked back from Sophomore to square one as a Freshman. Not only were several months of my life marked as irrelevant and wasted, but the same news was delivered to another student in that class that had been put into the same exact situation!

I'm transferring out of IUS after this semester and have no plans of returning. While everything else the school had to offer was amazing, the incompetency of the administration is an overwhelming con for me. I'm sorry to any other students that have fallen victim to this same sort of dilemma.