<p>Community college is in NO WAY a “death sentence” for grad school.</p>
<p>Remember, in California, something like 50 percent of all CSU/UC graduates came through the community college system. If all those students couldn’t get into grad school, our grad schools would be empty.</p>
<p>My dad transferred from LA Valley College to CSU Northridge, got his BA, moved on to UCLA and then Cal, where he got his PhD in paleontology. He’s now teaching at Sacramento State.</p>