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The first Transfer 101: Transfer Basics workshop of the semester was held today in the Transfer Center.
“We hold around three to five of them each semester,” said Transfer Center Director Sunday Salter.
The workshops, which Salter started organizing last November, aim to further educate students on what they need to know regarding the essentials of transferring.
“If you don’t have a goal, if you don’t have all the pieces to the puzzle, it’s going to be very difficult to transfer at all,” she said.
She demonstrated this by having attendees attempt to complete a picture puzzle without having all the puzzle pieces.
Following that, she said that in order to complete the puzzle that is the transfer process, students need to take time to research.
“Figure out what schools you’re interested in, find out what their requirements are, and come up with a plan,” said Salter.
Though she said that the steps can be done by the students themselves, she also noted that it’s much easier to complete them when the students receive help from the school.
“Make a connection with a counselor and stick to that person to help you go through all the necessary steps of transferring successfully,” said Salter.
She also stressed the importance of keeping up with whatever is going on in the Transfer Center, because transfer requirements change often.
According to Salter, it takes students an average of three years to meet all the requirements necessary to transfer, a number that may increase with the removal of next year’s winter intersession.
Another focus of the workshop was ensuring that the students know exactly what they want to get out of the colleges they wish to transfer to, and back-up plans were encouraged.
“Students change their minds [about their majors] an average of four times throughout their college career,” she said.
Throughout the entire workshop, students asked transfer questions that related to their particular majors.
“[The workshop] really cleared up a lot of basic stuff,” said 19-year-old nursing student Trixcee Comia. “I knew some of the information already, but hearing it here really solidified it for me.”
