I started going to community college in fall 14. Im taking summer classes and will be starting my second year of cc this fall. I still don’t know what to major in and right now I’m doing my GE(igetc and csu). Based on my calculations I should be at my new school in fall 17 if everything goes good. Is it normal for a full time student that doesn’t work to take 3 years at a cc? Is it bad or viewed negatively by schools or future employers to take 3 years for transfer and 5 yrs for a Bachelors? I failed a class and dropped one first semester but retook them and passed with B’s and I’ve gotten good grades so my gpa is 3.2
Wow no one answered, this website is shit
Wow you waited one day! Your patience is extraordinary.
Taking five years for a bachelors seems to be fairly common, especially for people who have to retake classes. Check out the schools in which you are interested, and see when they let students transfer. Some places have limits on the number of credits they will accept. Do you have schools in mind yet?
I wish I knew the answer. I’ve been at community college on and off for five years, and won’t transfer until Fall 2017 as well.
Considering that the vast majority of community college students don’t even transfer to a four-year institution and that the average time it takes for a college student to earn his/her bachelor’s degree is six years, no. It’s not bad.
The goal is to get an education and ultimately a degree or two that will help you get the career. Some people do this in less than four years while others take more. Many colleges seem to publish both four and six year graduation rates and I suspect that this is because a certain percentage of students don’t graduate in four years. It took my father my entire childhood to finish a bachelors degree, on class at a time. He graduated the year before I graduated from high school. It was his goal and he stuck with it for 17 years until he got it finished.
Nobody cares how long it took you to earn an Associates degree. Many students go part time and only enroll in one class each session, taking many years to earn their degree.
I don’t think it’s necessarily bad as sometimes there are reasons for it. For instance, I started CC when I was 17 and living with my grandma. The financial aid office made it extremely difficult for me to get class registration fee waivers, so my first year at CC I took a whopping total of 3 classes as that was all I could afford. It took me 4 years to finally transfer, so I don’t think 3 years is bad at all. In fact, 3 years seems to be fairly common for people in STEM fields as they have to take a lot of prep classes.