Community College: Pros vs. Cons

<p>**Pros of a CC: **</p>

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<li>Stay at home</li>
<li>The easiest admissions on Earth, just pass high school and it doenst matter if you have a 1.0 - SATs? ‘what r they!!?’</li>
<li>Cheap tutition, 4 years is about as much as two years at a Public In-State university, so it thus only costs about half the money.</li>
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<p>**Cons of a CC: **

  • The workload will be just as rigorous as most universities, but you will get a lot less recognition for your hardwork. Even though the classes usually are just as hard, most graduate schools and transfer schools will look at a 4.0 from “XYZ Community College” in an infinetely lower standing than a 3.6 from Yale.
  • A Pretty crappy college-experience, since most CC’s are underfunded and have lousy administraters - after all, who ‘wants’ to become the president of a community college?
  • Always a chance of getting screwed over when trying to transfer.
  • Once again, lack of a true great college experience. The enviornment is just too different.
  • Being in an enviornment where most people don’t really want to learn (A minority is very strong academically but most are there because they find academics lame)</p>

<p>Overall, I’d personally never want to go to a CC, even if I had to stack myself with loans that I would need to spend 10 years of my post-college life repaying. The College Experience is glorious and the most life-changing you will face - its one of the greatest experiences possible. Of course, being middle class, I have the luxury of being able to say that I want to go to a university. </p>

<p>In short, paying triple the price for a university is the right decision when faced with the idea of going to a community college (If you are in the correct socio-economic strata, of course)</p>