<p>I'm a community college student in California about to start my third semester, and would be happy to answer any questions anyone has about it.</p>
<p>How much wood would a community college chuck if a community college could chuck wood?</p>
<p>^idk...a lot</p>
<p>What percent of the students who started out in your class are still there?</p>
<p>What percent of the folks who say they plan on transferring actually do?</p>
<p>Where do you want to transfer to?</p>
<p>How expensive is it OOS? Could I gain residency by going to a CC?</p>
<p>"What percent of the students who started out in your class are still there?"</p>
<p>I'm not sure, there aren't any official statistics. The only thing I have is that anyone with a 3.5 or higher GPA and 12 units gets on the President's (Dean's) list.</p>
<p>"What percent of the folks who say they plan on transferring actually do?"</p>
<p>A good amount of them. It takes some people 3-4 years, and about 20-30% of the students are re-entry or just need classes for another college.</p>
<p>"Where do you want to transfer to?"</p>
<p>Reaches: Rice, Northwestern, Berkeley
Matches: UCLA, Richmond, Michigan, UVA
Safeties: UCSD, Wisconsin, UBC (British Columbia)</p>
<p>"How expensive is it OOS?"</p>
<p>About $1300 a semester including books. It's about $500 a semester for a resident like me.</p>
<p>"Could I gain residency by going to a CC?"</p>
<p>Not in California, and I suspect not in other states either.</p>
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About $1300 a semester including books. It's about $500 a semester for a resident like me.
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$500 a semester, including books?</p>
<p>This semester I payed $450 for books, $300 for tuition, and a $20 "health fee". And this is for only 15 credits (I usually take more; the max is 19).</p>
<p>I am an in-state student in California.</p>
<p>Yeah, didn't think so. Heard Cali is really strict on getting residency tuition, unless you've lived there for a while.</p>
<p>@yawn:</p>
<p>A lot of books are used for multiple classes. I'd say my averages are $320 in tution, $150 on books, and a $35 parking fee. That's a little more than $500, but your first semester will be more expensive. I don't think I've ever paid more than $300 for books though.</p>
<p>^ Last spring I payed $500 for textbooks. For just ONE semester! And I've never used a textbook for more than one class...</p>
<p>What would be a good CC for an international student to grow and learn?</p>
<p>Is there really no campus life?</p>
<p>Is there housing in the CC?</p>
<p>Would you recommend transferring as a sophmore or junior?</p>
<p>I really have no idea what goes on at a CC...</p>
<p>"What would be a good CC for an international student to grow and learn?"</p>
<p>Any CC in California or Virginia, to take advantage of their guaranteed/priority admission programs.</p>
<p>"Is there really no campus life?"</p>
<p>No more than at a high school.</p>
<p>"Is there housing in the CC?"</p>
<p>No, but most of the schools' websites have an off-campus housing search.</p>
<p>"Would you recommend transferring as a sophmore or junior?"</p>
<p>Junior. It makes colleges weight your high school record less and it's essential for getting into UCs. Also, as far as apps go, you're a junior when you have 60 credits, not after a certain number of semesters or quarters.</p>
<p>"I really have no idea what goes on at a CC..."</p>
<p>In California, it's a transition between high school and college, which is why UCs accept so many transfer students, since all of my CC classes have been harder than high school (about equal to APs) and presumably easier than at a 4-year, although some teachers rotate between the 2-years and 4-years in the area teaching the same classes.</p>
<p>I had this discussion with my sister (who is still in college). Many of you are talking about how much you paid for text books and the figures seem outrageous to me. When I was in college, my professors would put copies on reserve at the appropriate undergrad libraries. All students were welcome to photocopy whatever they wished out of the book but nobody could take it out of the library. This alleviated some of the costs associated with college for me and as a bonus, often good samaritans would add class notes, old exam copies or other useful things to the reserve copy for all to use.</p>
<p>^ It ain't like that here.</p>
<p>If you don't buy your books at the bookstore, you won't spend $500. I spent around $500 a semester my first year and after that, I found out about buying books online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Alibris, BigWords, Half.com, etc. I bought a lot of books for $30 or less and one time I found an older edition of the book I needed for $5.75.</p>
<p>I think after that I never spent more than around $200 a semester on books (except my last semester, when some of the books were brand-new and not available for less online). The professors usually give you a couple of weeks to obtain books elsewhere.</p>
<p>I don't get a couple of weeks to get books elsewhere; the professors expect you to have the book sometime in the first week. It's about 3/4 price used at the bookstore, which is decent, since online shipping from an unknown seller can take 3 or more weeks from my experiences.</p>
<p>^ Ditto.</p>
<p>10charmander</p>
<p>I bought a few books from amazon.com and they came pretty fast, with express shipping ofcourse which isn't too expensive.</p>
<p>Last book I bought was a pre calculus book which came in 3 days</p>