Community College Students Suck

Transfer Students
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<p>My apologies in advance for my futile attempt at a catchy-yet-not-sexual title. </p>

<p>I do not know how many community college students browse through this forum, but I am assuming there is a sufficient amount to comment on my concern/question. </p>

<p>Does coming from a community college hurt one's graduate prospects (such as applying to graduate schools, getting a job, etc.)? </p>

<p>I guess my underlying concern is that coming from a community college, regardless of transferring to an elite university like U.C. Berkeley and others, may damage my academic reputation simply because I chose another way to reach the college of my dreams. </p>

<p>So forum, does going to community college hurt one's chances at a decent job/graduate school, or is the diploma good enough? </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Going to community college makes it so 4 years straight from hs will always get priority when it comes to employment opportunities. You are out of luck.</p>

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<p>Attending a CC for your first two years does not impact your future grad school or employment opportunities. Your life is what you make it, my story:</p>

<p>CCC > UCB > MS > PhD > Researcher for 30 yrs</p>

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<p>It shouldn’t. Apart from academic reasons (struggling in HS), many HS graduates go the community college route because of financial considerations (it’s cheaper to do the gen-ed stuff at a CC and do your actual major at the 4-year. </p>

<p>Be warned; there was a parent’s thread late last year in which (if I remember it right) an employer mentioned that he didn’t hire people who went community college / 4-year route.</p>

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<p>I have to agree with entomom. The first year or two of college do not really matter as much as the last two. Essentially it only matters where you graduate from.</p>

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<p>this is a nice story that sort of pertains to your situation:</p>

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<p>Fantastic quote from Handlebars’ link:</p>

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<p>But this quote is also telling:</p>

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<p>There will be d-bags everywhere, and it’s not completely impossible that one of them might be an employer with an elitist attitude. But unless you’re planning to move to a maquiladora in Northern Mexico, you should be able to find opportunities with people who don’t have some silly attitude towards community colleges.</p>

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<p>Well thanks to all that have replied thus far. </p>

<p>I guess what I can take away from all this is that, like what entomom said, my life is really what I make it out to be. </p>

<p>But to satiate my inevitable curiosity, Cupertinotransfer, where are you basing your opinion from? I understand that by your own CC ID, you have implied that you are from a community college as well. I would appreciate further explanations so that I can either find dogmatic solutions to my predicament or dismiss your comment.</p>

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<p>No, not at all.</p>

<p>One of my brother’s classmates at Harvard Med went to a community college first. A girl from my CC went to UCLA and is now in a graduate program at MIT. Another success story I heard is of a girl who went to Stanford from a CC and then off the UCB for grad school in English, for which it is ranked 1st in the nation for (or was).</p>

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<p>I doubt it’ll come up for most cases.</p>

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<p>Misleading title needed a misleading answer lol</p>