<p>Did you get enrolled in classes towards your major right out of High School? Or did you have to go through all that GE stuff?</p>
<p>Really? There’s no Community College students at College Confidential?</p>
<p>I MADE SURE I did my GE stuff first. Always. You never know what the future holds. I was a film a major, changed to business. If I took film classes then I would be stuck at CC forever. Take the Gen Eds.</p>
<p>At my CC there are suggested courses students should take in order to transfer to a university as a junior.</p>
<p>Always do your GE first. Some of my friends made the mistake of doing their majors and they stayed at CC longer than average.</p>
<p>I’m staying to get my AA here, then going on to get a BS in biochem (or something similar). I got most of my GEs out of the way early on (three first quarter, two 2nd quarter, two third quarter, two fourth quarter, one fifth quarter), and then focused only on major-specifics, though I did get some major-specifics done in the first five quarters.</p>
<p>My community college major is “Liberal Arts” so it’s really nothing but the generals. I made sure to look at the colleges I was applying to and tried to find ones that sounded about the same. I also looked at THEIR distribution requirements and registered accordingly.</p>
<p>@ ckiajabdstagger</p>
<p>when you say GE, are you referring a list of general education that needs to be done to graduate in X school? What I’m saying here is different schools have their GE requirements? Or do you mean the GE in general?</p>
<p>I meant GEs to get done at my CC. If you are planning to transfer, we have various tracks built for for certain types of majors. So, those have the set GEs to graduate, and are very helpful for helping us transfer, because most of it was set in stone.</p>
<p>So…GEs I had to get through were calc I and calc II, English 102 (which is like the first or 2nd level of english at a four year school), three- classes of cultural knowledge requirements (social science/humanities/foreign language respectively)</p>
<p>And then, of course, the major-specifics.</p>
<p>So…you really don’t stay at a CC for 2 years?
You stay longer? );</p>
<p>Btw thanks for your responses!</p>
<p>General education & prerequisites are important. Doesn’t help you if you just take take GE courses only to find out you need another few courses for prerequisites.
If you plan it right, and take a few courses during summer and winter intersession you can definitely finish in two years.</p>
<p>Aha…thanks man.
I’ve pretty much planned out all the courses i’m gonna take.</p>
<p>Make sure you also look up the graduation requirement at the 4 year university you are transferring to and see if your courses will be counted towards the requirement. This is why it really helps if you are transferring to a state university. They usually have a database of equivalent courses.</p>
<p>Always check the requirements for graduation from your intended 4 year college. Your classes will need to be adjusted so that you meet the cc requirements and your universties by taking classes that meet both. It will save time and money. I</p>
<p>hey mommy, you said the same thing I did :)</p>
<p>OP: Did I make it sound like I’ll be here for more than two years? Haha, no. This is my last year, though I did take summer courses. I took three courses a quarter, and I’m on set to get everything I need done. I kind of want to stay for another quarter during the summer, but I’ll have to see if I can make it fit with a transfer at all.</p>
<p>By the time I graduate here, I’ll have an extra course of math (Calv IV), and two extra courses of organic chem w/lab (the intro and intermediate).</p>
<p>Insightful stuff guys!
Thanks for your responses.</p>
<p>How long does it take to finish your General Education?</p>
<p>GE for a community college, or GE for maybe ONE school which you know you want to transfer into?</p>
<p>Most will probably be the same, sans a few specialized schools. I’m looking at LACS/masters colleges, and all of their GEs are pretty similar. If you’re looking at a large public state school, it should be easier. If you are looking at large private schools, it will probably be a bit harder. And, of course, all of it depends on what kind of program you are going into (IE, GEs for an engineering major are different than for a humanities major).</p>