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In this series we'll be joined
by a couple of College of DuPage's top transfer destination universities
to talk about what transferring looks like in our current remote learning
environment.
Joining us from Elmhurst University is Rayya.
Hello Rayya! How are you this afternoon?
I'm good, Justin. Thank you. How are you?
I'm doing good! Thank you for asking.
You know, before we jump into everything, I heard a rumor that you are also a
community college graduate as well?
Yes, I am. I did earn my associate's
degree from a community college before transferring to a four-year school.
Well that's great! And it's good that you have that perspective
I was wondering you know if you could tell us a little bit more about
Elmhurst University.
What does your your campus look
like this fall? Are you back on campus or
remote or working in some hybrid model?
Yeah, so we are back on campus and our
residence halls are open. Our courses are being offered on campus
online and in a hybrid format.
Can you tell us how many transfer
students attend Elmhurst University every year?
We have a very large and vibrant transfer
community at Elmhurst University We welcome about 500 transfer students
to Elmhurst every year.
Oh that's great. That's quite a large number.
Could you tell us about how many of those are from
College of DuPage, specifically?
We get about 125 students from
College of DuPage every year so we love our transfer students from COD.
As our students are planning for their transfer in this remote environment,
could you tell us, are there any
online planning tools that Elmhurst University has available
or ones that you would recommend that our students use to help help them
better prepare for their transfer?
Our website is a phenomenal resource for
students so I definitely recommend students utilize our website.
We do have a transfer webpage specific to College of DuPage.
So, students can find COD classes that fit the Elmhurst general education
requirements. In addition to that, Transferology is
also a great tool for students to use but definitely our website. I recommend
students start with our website because there's tons of great information
for College of DuPage students on our website.
Okay that's great. And yes we do recommend our students
check out your website. I know we have a link to it as well on our transfer page.
As we're talking about
planning for transfer,
I was wondering if you could tell us if
there are any majors at Elmhurst that are difficult for
students to transfer into?
I wouldn't say they're difficult for
students to transfer into. However, nursing and education, they
require lots of planning.
Nursing and education
both have several prerequisite courses that students need to complete
and certain gpa requirements that they do have to maintain
in order to start those programs
So I don't think that they're difficult they
just require extra planning on a student's part.
Okay and then you know, as far as that extra planning you know
do you have any advice...I know you mentioned checking the
prerequisites and gpa but is there any other advice you'd have
like contacting yourself sooner or anything else?
Yeah, so I always recommend students contact me as early as their
first semester at College of DuPage. I can definitely help them with the
planning you know to really make sure that
they're on the right track to start our nursing program or to start our
education program. In addition to chatting with me
students can also check out our Education transfer guide
and our Nursing transfer guide on our website.
We do have specific COD guides
for those majors as well.
Okay that that's a great resource to know about.
Switching gears a little bit
from transfer planning to transfer visits
In our current environment, it's it's kind of up in the air
what universities are offering what. So I was wondering if you could tell us
in terms of virtual visits
what Elmhurst is offering students?
So we actually have a virtual open
house coming up on Saturday, October 31st The open house is awesome.
It's a really great opportunity for students to connect with faculty members
In addition to the virtual open house, we are actually offering virtual
appointments with both the admission office so you
know to meet with an admission counselor and with student financial services so
if students want to talk to someone in financial aid
they're also offering virtual appointments as well.
Okay, that's great! What about in-person visits?
are those an options for students or is everything virtual now?
So on-campus visits are an option for students.
We are back on campus and accepting visitors. Appointments are required.
However, students can definitely still have the opportunity to sit down
one-on-one with an admission counselor and take campus tours.
Okay, that's great. Is there a special website that our students need to
to visit to check out these virtual and in-person events?
So, if they just go to elmhurst.edu/visit
it'll take students to our visit page and they can see the tons of
visit opportunities that we have.
Fantastic. That's all great information.
I want to thank you again, Rayya for for taking the time to talk with us today.
We really value our partnership with Elmhurst University.
No problem! Thanks for having me.
- Don't forget that you can sign up for a virtual visit
with this institution and many others by going to the College of DuPage event calendar.
You can also get a direct link to many
top transfer destinations by going to cod.edu/transfer
and clicking on the
"College Websites and Transfer Information" link.