Bellevue College — Attraction in Bellevue

Enrolled in the online program at the ravings of the advisor and was forced to take classes that I had already completed due to it being a "requirement of the program;" driving about 250 miles to take my first course on campus, having to rent a hotel and stay the night and this only being a 1-credit class. The whole process of getting approved and registered was complicated and I never knew if I should purchase books until a few days before the classes were to start, sometime forcing me to find pdf versions of books just to have the literature that was required for the course. The classes were all essay format and required a huge investment of time to complete. I spent an excess of sixtey hours online to saisfy 3-4 credit courses and almost that much that time for a one credit course. This did not include my reading, research, and essay-writing time. Still I moved along as I really enjoyed the instructor Jerry. This quarter I never received permission codes from my advisor and when I shot him an email 2-weeks before Fall classes started, I was blamed for not having my supervisor contact him prior to providing the codes. Supervisor participation was explained, but not the part about having them contact the advisor prior to obtaining the codes. Still my fault somehow.. When my supervisor contacted my advisor, suddenly it was too late and the class was cancelled and hold on... so was the whole online program. Now I am out a considerable amount of money and time and sent searching for another program somewhere in the country where I will probably have to jump through all their hoops from the beginning making by Bellevue College experience a waste of time and money. Never again Bellevue...

This review is specifically for the Finance and Enrollment Services departments. Simply put, they are just failing in their job. Bellevue College offices have been closed for over a year and these two departments have not found a way to do their jobs remotely yet and are still closed. College students are left hanging, emails not returned, phone calls not returned, issues not resolved, 529 payments not processed etc. Students are wrongfully being dropped from classes because these two departments are not doing their job and communicating. Absolutely impossible trying to contact anybody at Bellevue College in the last year! Even in a normal year trying to contact the college is limited to impersonal and terrible online portals instead of email/phone numbers. Update: 4/14/2021: This is an updated review based on follow up received from Bellevue College. I took this issue all the way to the Bellevue College President, Gary Locke. I was impressed that he called me twice, once to get information on the problem and once to follow up on the status of resolving it. I was also impressed with the head of the Finance Department, Jen C., who without hesitation owned this problem. Jen admitted this is a problem at Bellevue College and they are trying to fix it. I am still upset that after a year of not manning their offices properly they have not figured out how to fix this issue through remote work or started manning their offices again to support the students. Because the President of the college personally called me and the head of Finance Department owned this problem immediately, I am upping my review to 3 stars...

(REVIEW FOR ADVISING)I decided not to even go to this college. I recently moved here and needed to know what i needed to transfer to Bastyr. It was such a confusing experience. When i finally met the adviser, i let him know where i wanted to transfer and with what major to see what kind of classes i might need before taking the assessment test. He was nice, but scattered and told me only 6 classes and displayed them in this full year class planner. I liked the idea of the planner but the only classes he listed where the ones i told him i needed. On top of that he said that i probably wouldn't get into math141, which i needed for the program. It was extremely disappointing that he had no idea what my academic capabilities were and just told me i wasn't smart enough, he didn't even have my high school transcript. I don't know maybe it was my race or the idea that i was going to a community college that made me seem incapable. This was a turnoff for me, I've had experience with this before and i feel anyone working in education should be positive and expect the best from their students. Anyways, he interrupted me and said the appointment was over, and i left confused. I went ahead to North Seattle Community College.The advisers were friendly, and gave me so much information. I took the assessment test there, which was too easy and yeah, i got into math 141. I'm glad i made this decision. This was my experience. My advice, don't come here confused or unsure, you might just set yourself up for failure. That is, if you have actual ambition and plan on doing something with the...