Simpson University

I was a part of the MFT program. I went to school to learn to be a professional counselor. This program should have lifted me up and given me hope… instead I felt used up and spit out. The people in charge seriously let power go to their heads and treat the students like dirt. I have heard one too many stories about people leaving this program in tears. If you want to attend a really good MFT program, I would NOT suggest Simpson University. The price is high and the education is only mediocre.
The ASPIRE program is another story. That was a bachelor program and less demanding than the Masters MFT program. The cohorts were great and the teachers much more involved.

As a parent of a freshman student I am not at all pleased with Simpson! For the cost to attend this private school one would think there would be a significant amount of administrators an faculty to ensure a freshman is taking the correct classes they need for their major. This is not the case. After so much confusion trying to get into the school and to get funding straightened out, to have her class schedule totally wrong! Thinking all was finally fixed we get ready to move her to Simpson… Oh wait another phone call 2 weeks before she is to move in… Class schedule is all wrong an no declared major! What?! There was never a question for her as to her major but apparently at Simpson there was. With much ado her advisor who has no clue as to what she is doing, tells us now it’s all fixed an things are ok. I kept saying are you sure? I talked to her an I didn’t feel like things were ok. But my daughter was assured it was fine! So off I moved her to Redding.
Now here comes November an time to sign up for classes!!! Guess what my daughter took the wrong classes in the wrong semester an now they are unavailable for spring semester! Surprise!!! Now what? So many dollars in student loans an 3 months later ends my daughters college career at Simpson. How sad! How ridiculous! What a waste of money ! What a waste of emotions! What a waste of time! What a waste!!!
So I suggest anyone who is planning on attending Simpson university beware; of counselors, advisers„ administrators who Are guiding you on your class selection, they do not know what they are doing! When I talked to the head of the advisors he didn’t even know the person who helped my daughter ruin her class schedule! That’s scary he is her boss?! They tried to have the head of the counseling department meet with my daughter to discuss the problem, my daughter shows up for the appointment an the lady had already left! That was so nice of her. This is a 40,000.00 $ dollar a year school, really? My daughter left a note an she still has never responded to her!
Not such a good review for Simpson university! I suggest don’t waste your time at this school an find one that cares about the students an not the money!

I no longer believe that this is culturally the same institution where I spent three years of my life studying theology — the one that provided a foundational experience for my future life. Neither would I consider the political and intellectual climate of the college to lend itself to truly open thought. It was not hostile insomuch as it was dismissive to progressive thought when I studied there. The tenor of the time at Simpson became a precursor to the failed political era of complicity with a neo-​conservative Middle East policy agenda and neoclassical theory. However, the theology courses were rigorous and diverse, with significant breadth within the limitations of a single faith. I’m not certain that in the age of Bush and Perry Christianity that this institution has maintained its intellectual integrity, but it would be good to know that it has.