The Bucks Student Transfer
Fair held recently had a variety
of different choices this year,
and representatives from both
local schools and those from
other parts of the country were
all available for questions.
deborah bergen, the
assistant director of transfer
Services here at bucks, commented
on what she thought
was the motivation for making
this fair a success, “i think it’s
a good time of the year for students
to start thinking about
transfer opportunities.”
the representatives from the
different schools had a lot to
say about why they were there
and what they felt was the
main message of the transfer
fair. Jeff Gormely, program
Manager at desales university,
said that what drew him to the
fair was that desales had just
opened up a new campus in
lansdale. “We are using this
venue to help spread the
word.”
When asked if he thought
that this fair was a competitive
atmosphere, Gormely said
“Not really, we feel that we are
all trying to get people to join a
common industry, but if they
decide to sign with us, great.”
Jennifer bona, an
admissions representative
from holy Family university
said “i think we have a good
relationship with the transfer
department here at bucks and
we usually get a large turnout.”
Jay esposito, from the
university of pennsylvania,
offered a good reason for setting
up at bucks when he said
“i think coming out gives the
students a chance to meet with
us face to face versus an email
advertisement or brochure in
the mail.”
leala d’isidoro from
Savannah college of art and
design said “the reason we
come here is that we have an
articulation agreement with
bucks, which means we honor
credits that are offered here at
here. this way there will be no
problem when they go to transfer.”
Many of the students at the
fair were made up of people
trying to get an idea for a
school to transfer to, or they
had already made up their
mind and were just searching
for more information.
elizabeth blackshir seemed
to be in between these two categories.
“i think i’m going to
be going to temple like most
bucks students, but i am also
interested in schools that are
located in the New york or in
the South,” she said. She liked
the idea of the fair because she
had a lot of questions and the
representatives seemed to be
very informed.
another one of these types of
students was Fred everett who
was also thinking of transferring
to temple, but was checking
out some other ideas in
case temple was too expensive.
Other people already had
their minds made up like tom
Schloendorn who said “i am
here looking for West chester
so i can set up my transfer.”
John Stockwell was not that
impressed with the fair. “i
think the fair does not give you
too much information about
the schools, but it does at least
give people ideas of where to
transfer to,” he said.
Whatever the opinion, the
2011 Student transfer fair
seemed to be a success.