Transfering?

I work at a community college and I think that if you intend to pursue a bachelors degree, a community college is the way to start.

The community college offers the SAME classes that a four year university offers, at a fraction of the costs. Where some students make mistakes is in selecting classes to take to transfer. All classes do not transfer and in order to avoid wasting time, you must review the list of transferable courses. Many students do not decide that they intend to transfer until well into the second year of community college and by then, they have wasted time taking classes that are non-transferable.

Every university may not accept every course from a community college. Your community college advisor has a complete listing of classes that are transferable. They will gladly help you map out a course of study that will maximize your courses to transfer – but you must tell them in advance that your intent is to transfer.

Community college students also do better as transfer students. There are numerous studies that validate this.

If your intent is to transfer, community colleges are the way to go.

Well a degree from a community college isn’t going to get you very far in today’s world since I believe all they hand out are associate’s degrees. A four year college/university degree is getting to be the bare minimum for getting a job these days. Even assuming that your community college does offer bachelor’s degrees, getting a degree from a state/private college/university will make getting future jobs much easier. So basically the pro of transferring to a UC is that your job prospects are much better. The cons are that you’re going to be spending more money and you will probably have to do some catching up since its likely some of your credits won’t transfer. If you don’t want to spend an extra year though you can just take summer classes to speed things up (assuming you don’t transfer in too far behind). Whether or not that’s worth a better occupational future is up to you.

No, you do not have to spend an extra year in school if you do a transfer program. The only pro of going to a community college over a direct freshman admissions is the cheaper price and you may end up graduating from a better university than you originally would have. However, in my opinion, you’re at a heavy disadvantage compared to students who come straight into universities from their first year. The education at community colleges is alright, but I really dislike the lack of resources. Beyond that, the environment seems depressing and it just doesn’t seem as academically stimulating. Beyond that, there are much research opportunities at community colleges. If you join a university from freshman year, you can join undergraduate research consortiums easily in your freshman/sophmore years and stay long-term with a project. Beyond that, for grad school admissions, they usually weigh your university grades much more than your community college grades.

They don’t let convicts into schools

they certainly dont let prostitutes in

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