<p>I had missed this thread when it came up in the first place a few years ago, and I have to say, I’m glad it got bumped, even if it was by a disgruntled student. The program is interesting. I’m sure they help you with financial aid, but it is nice to see that some of the 4-year colleges that they have automatic articulation to are reasonably priced. Looking at the map ^^^ I notice SUNY Fredonia and West Virginia, for example.</p>
<p>It is also nice that there are automatic articulation universities in so many states across the U.S.</p>
<p>I don’t like the “Ivy Bridge” name, though. :)</p>
<p>What does it offer that a community college does not?</p>
<p>It also does not make cost of attendance very obvious, nor does it make it very obvious where to find the course by course articulation agreements with the various other schools.</p>
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<p>Yeah, there sure are a lot of nefarious naming schemes around. Think of the nerve of the people who named a college Haverford so that people would think their kids were going to Harvard. Or Wheaton (Mass.) so parents would think their kids were going to a nice Christian place where they didn’t allow dancing. Or Columbia College (Chicago) for the geographically challenged who can’t tell the difference between Lake Michigan and the Hudson River. And don’t, for heaven’s sake, get me started on Cornell College (Iowa).</p>
<p>It is really something that the school in Ithaca took the name Cornell after it was already being used by the school in Mount Vernon, Iowa, isn’t it? :)</p>
<p>The two differences I saw between the Tiffin program and our community college are that although you can take classes on campus, this program is generally done completely on line, and that you have a designated “Success Coach” who is , in theory, in very frequent contact with you - although Brunoal (post #19) says he has not found this to be the case.</p>
<p>Please do not send your son to this school. I am currently enrolled and it has been problems after problems. From my experience, I do not think the staff are interested in actually helping students when a problem occurs. To get help you have to constantly call them and they take forever to return you call, and that is IF they call you back. No one ever answers the phone. They would tell you they will call you back and never returns the call, It’s very frustrating and you will end up feeling like your begging instead of paying thousands of dollars for your education. The success coach screw up your schedule and it takes weeks to fix and you end up paying for it because instructors aren’t willing to give you extra time b/c they dont want to grade late papers.
There is a financial advicer there name Kyle, omg he acts like he is doing you a favor and he isn’t really nice.When you call, he seems annoyed like he don’t want to do the work. The school is disorganized and I am really afraid because I am suppose to graduate from Ivy Bridge in a few months but I am afraid it isn’t even a real college.
I did check online to see if it was accredited and it said it was but I keep getting a weird vibe about the school and the staffs.
I will never try online school after my running with Ivy waste of time aka Ivy Bridge of Tiffin University.</p>
<p>The OP was 2008, so the S matriculated long ago.</p>
<p>Perhaps your comments will be informative to another member who is considering IB.</p>
<p>Closing old thread.</p>