There is absolutely no guidance given, the staff are unknowledgeable of courses that go on in the school, what goes on in their own department, and they are very unorganized.
This is not a good impression to have on a first year student transfer student like myself. I thought maybe it was just a span of bad luck however, after speaking with other students I know that have transferred here as well, I was not the only person that had multiple problems trying to attend here.
So far I have to give North Shore Community College a low 1 star review. My experience with them has been that they do not listen to what you have to say, cut you off, and are extremely rude. I have tried several times to contact them with less than desirable results. All I want to do is speak with an adviser over the phone before I go to the campus to see if what I am looking for is something they offer. I just got off the phone with them 5 mins ago, was cut off and transferred to an advisers line. The person who answered my call was rude! And I know I have spoken to the same person in the past! All I am asking you to do is listen completely before you hit the transfer button! I want to make sure you are sending me to the correct dept. Not sure if this is the school for me!
This has been the worst experience I have ever had attending a school. I feel extremely horrible for students that attend here right out of high school or students that are transferring here.
This place was the worst college to go to. The counselors don't really help you. They just sign you up for any course they can just so they can quickly boot you out the door not caring to help you find classes for your major or even find a major at all. For the Danvers campus in particular, it's a very snobby, predominately white(and prejudice), unfriendly atmosphere. A lot of them also flow over to the Lynn campus so they bring their snobby attitudes there. The students are worse than the instructors though the instructors can be pretty stuck up themselves. That's just the type of community Danvers is. You will find most of the people who have the edge at this school AND of course speak highly of it are the predominantly white population. I took a Bio 101 class once, and the instructor said in front of the class that blacks usually don't do well because they come from a poor background and lack proper education. It really is not a good place to get your education. Also, a lot of classes they have wont transfer to another college such as their Bio 101 course. You may not know that, but be sure the classes you take are transferable. Be sure to follow up on Rate My Professors website to know if you have a good instructor or not otherwise it's a hit or miss on having a great successful academic year or not. The staff can be very unfriendly on the phone or in person when you go to any of their offices. When you attend this school, you better have direction on what you want to do because No one there is really going to help you unless you have a really good instructor. I transferred out to a better community college and it was one of the best choices I've ever made.
Great atmosphere, love attending this college. I especially found the TRiO counselors very nice and accepting.
Signing up for courses is a whole other struggle. It took me 4 times to sign up for classes due to lack of staffing after an orientation, and a lack of communication between staff members. Finally I was given my course codes to sign up and an advisor gave me the wrong course number. Simple mistake, however when it came to trying to switch the course I called the school multiple times and left multiple messages, with not one returned phone call.
My mom went to this college and saw Erin's mom works here.
I had applied for financial aid a good few months in advance. Every time I would go there they would tell me I needed something else to complete my registration for FAFSA. This is something that should have been explained to me all at once with all the information on what I needed to bring in to complete my registration. They lost some of my paper work which was another reason as to why I had to make so many trips back and forth. Losing my paper work is unacceptable because those documents have my information on it. Needless to say, my financial aid never went through. I had to pay for everything out of pocket to attend classes putting me in a financial struggle, and now I owe money to multiple family members that were nice enough to lend me some money.
North Shore Community College is a US University based in Danvers, Massachusetts. North Shore Community College is located at 1 Ferncroft Rd, Danvers, MA 01923, USA.
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