Best california city colleges

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<p>Many of CA community colleges are top notch. Professors are not busy researching for the most part and spend lots of time teaching and helping students. Moorpark, Santa Monica City College and Mt. San Antonio in Walnut have excellent reputations. Foothill College in Los Altos (SF Bay Area) used to be known as “Harvard on the Hill”, an excellent school as well.</p>

<p>If you are planning open to moving out of your immediate area to go to a community college, I would look at individual colleges to see if they have strong depts in areas that you are interested in (both academically and extracurricular). Moorpark College, for example has a nationally recognized teaching zoo, students get to work hands on with various wildlife. Mt. San Antonio (aka Mt. SAC) has an unbelievable choral program…most recently performing at Carnegie Hall. Find a school where you can thrive and make a mark, not just somewhere where you can get your GE out of the way.</p>

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<h1>1 : Santa Monica College</h1>

<p>#2: El Camino College</p>

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<p>No one is going to go to another city to attend a community college and they are not competative when it comes to admission , they take EVERYONE.</p>

<p>Go where you see fit. </p>

<p>I lived in San Diego and I went to:</p>

<p>Grossmont
Mesa
Cuyamaca
City
Miramar
MiraCosta</p>

<p>Mesa,Miramar and City are in the same district though.</p>

<p>Whichever made the most convinient schedule for me I went. But alas i took most of my courses at Grossmont and drove 45 min to get there because it was easier to park and the classes were smaller than at Mesa which was 15 min away. </p>

<p>The ONLY time you would really want to say one is better than another is in regards to transfer admission gurantees or TAP or other speciality programs that not all CCs will have.</p>

<p>For the Berkeley TAP only a few CCs participate, most of which are located in the Berkeley geographical area.</p>

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<p>Edward’s enthusiasm for COC is making me uncomfortable.</p>

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<p>Ha I can tell you bakersfield college sucks. </p>

<p>Teachers are cool but everyone else … not so cool.</p>

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<p>Can’t believe Pasadena City College is getting so little love. Seriously? El Camino College? COC?!?!</p>

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<p>pcc yaaaa! :)</p>

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<p>I went to Riverside City College and I’m sure there were more people selling drugs than students on campus.</p>

<p>Highly recommended, A+.</p>

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<p>Malishka, you’d be surprised at how far people will go to attend the community college of choice. I know some kids head up to Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo so that they can more easily transfer into Cal Poly. There are plenty of college kids in SLO looking to share houses and apts and they could care less if you go to community college.</p>

<p>My advice still stands, go with what makes sense, financial or otherwise.</p>

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<p>SMC library = <3</p>

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<p>
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No one is going to go to another city to attend a community college and they are not competative when it comes to admission , they take EVERYONE.

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Really? No one goes to another city to attend a community college? Want to bet?</p>

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<p>my city doesnt have a community college… so i have to leave it, lol. </p>

<p>some CC’s are better than others. the ones with TAP are pretty legit.</p>

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<p>does it even matter which school I attend?</p>

<p>If I go to a not so good ccc , does that lesson my shot at UCs?
…being skeptical here</p>

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<p>Wow, only 14 people from CCSF transferred to UCSB my year, looking at that link. Looks like most people didn’t want to leave home and preferred to stay local or go as far as UC Davis.</p>

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<p>I definitely go out of my way to go to pasadena city college…I live 5 minutes away from citrus and I still choose to drive to pcc, sometimes it even takes me an hour to get home b/c of traffic.</p>

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<p>SMC and OCC are the best</p>

<p>“Orange Coast College sent 1,874 students to public four-year colleges and universities in 2007-2008, more than any other community college in Orange County. OCC was in second place statewide behind Santa Monica College, which sent 2,111 students to the four-year campuses.”</p>

<p>From OCC website.</p>

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<p>El Camino in Torrance has an awesome TAP/TAG transfer program.</p>

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<p>oh, and their EOP&S program actually pays you if you have a 3.5 or above GPA each semester (I got a 4.0 and $400 in Fall).</p>

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<p>COC, admittedly, rocks. We’re even building a University center, where you can get your Bachelors or Masters degrees affiliated with CSU schools, without having to pay so much for the commute, classes, or books.</p>

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<p>Santa Monica</p>

<p>Pasadena City</p>

<p>Orange Coast</p>

<p>El Camino</p>