Essex County College

Poor organization skills most staff never know the answer to anything and if they do they give the wrong information. School makes you take unnecessary classes for them to make more money. This extra course required by the university are non transferable. The only good thing about this college are the students & teachers all teachers go out of their way to help. But the actually staff is horrible where is this? No idea ask them. No wonder why many students either drop out or transfer to another college.

I did my part. I did what I was supposed to do. I showed up to register. I did my own Fasfa. I took my placement test. I sat thru all the BS at Essex County College. And finally when it comes to registration I can’t register. The classes they had available somehow always conflicted with my two classes. All I wanted was to take two classes and I couldn’t even do that. I put up with a lot of disrespect from financial aid, administration and majority of the faculty. They gave me false information since day one. I refuse to jeopardize my success so far to struggle again. It’s not worth the parking tickets I got because they no longer offer parking registration. I couldn’t even get a feasible schedule. Monday thru Saturday is not accommodating for people who work. And I couldn’t even register because the blocks of time didn’t add up right. And we really were not given options for scheduling. It was one way or nothing. All in all I’m very disappointed with the school. I had someone tell me «it’s not there job to assist me with helping me figure out how much financial aid I was awarded by ECC. Not once did I meet with my assigned academic advisor. The advisor I had never even told me her name. She was speaking Spanish in front of me and she didn’t even help me fill out my class schedule. Another student did. I felt like my peers helped me more then the administration. So based off of everything, I definitely will not return to that school. And when I do decide to go back to school. I will use my financial aid money else where. Something in my gut was telling me this is NOT a good fit for me. I want to go where I feel as tho students will actually get the education they need, their questions answered, and actually not feel alone and lost in the process.