<p>Yes,,when people are fussing about top universities and college rankings,,lets give some time ranking community colleges as well.</p>
<p>This is a ranking of the top 30 community colleges (and I think their methodology is better than USNWR).</p>
<p>Reputation has been Miami-Dade, California CCs and the CCs in areas with strong public schools (DC, NY/NJ).
Montgomery and Howard County CCs regularly send the most students to the Beacon Conference, a honors symposium for Mid-Atlantic CCs.
The traditional advice of how to get noticed by top colleges at the community college level has been grades, PTK membership, honors programs, extracurriculars. Very few of the CCs on that list offer honors programs or a large enough student body for many extracurricular opportunities.
In helping the average student get to State U, I'm sure those programs perform very well. But the above-average student? With aspirations beyond State U?</p>
<p>Whats Beacon Conference, honors symposium, PTK membership</p>
<p>And I still don't have much idea about honors program, either of a uni or a college or in this case of a cc. Is it a seperate rigorous, demanding course for achieving students? I am an interantional student so these terms rather sound confusing to me.
Thanks</p>
<p>Interesting, although not exactly surprising, that not one New York CC made the list. I am surprised that only one California CC made the Post's Top 30, considering that the CA system of community colleges is pretty highly regarded.</p>