<p>Hey everyone... my grades in high school are decent right now (mid 80s-90s), but I think I want to go to a community college first and transfer to one of my colleges of choice (NYU, Baruch, BC, BU etc.)</p>
<p>Would it be smart for me to go to say Borough of Manhattan Community College and do well and try and transfer into one of those colleges?</p>
<p>Also after getting my associates at a community college when I transfer to a university would I get my bachelor's in 2 years or 4? Since I would have completed 2 at a community college.</p>
<p>Hi koedog,
A lot of people do that to save money if you decide to go to a community college and get an associates degree and then transfer. If you do go to a community college and get an associates degree and then transfer to a 4-year colelge for a bachelor's degree, it would typically take 2 years to get it. The only problems with this is that you will not get the full and complete college experience if you were to attend a 4-year college. So this is up to you and do what ever you think is best for you.</p>
<p>There is also the chance that your associates degree will require classes that are not prerequisites for admissions at the 4 year. So make sure to check the mandatory prereqs of the 4 years you want to try to transfer to and take those at the community college.</p>
<p>You should be ok though as long as you get a high GPA during the 2 years at the CC.</p>
<p>You should make an appointment with the Transfer Office at the community college that you are considering. They will be able to tell you which colleges and universities their students have been successful in transferring to, and they will be able to explain any formal transfer agreements that exist. For example, there may be a formal arrangement between your community college and University of X that guarantees a space for you as a junior at U of X provided that you take a particular series of courses and earn a particular GPA in those courses at your community college.</p>
<p>Yes, I am at a community college in California and transferring to a University this Fall. I had NO interest in high school, I did not take my SAT/ACT and even did homeschool my last year.</p>
<p>Now I am in community college, I joined the honors program, became active, gained maturity, and it only cost about 500 dollars a year. I saved my parents a bunch load.</p>
<p>I am deciding between University of California-Irvine or University of California-Los Angeles. I did not apply to any privates because:
A) California's UC system is cheap and high ranked
B) I never took the SATS!</p>
<p>Cheery I am in the same boat as you. Dropped out of HS 10 years ago, no sat/act, just a GED. Now getting my Associate with a decent gpa and trying to transfer. It seems lots of schools still put an emphasis on highschool/sat's regardless of us being a non-trad though.</p>
<p>Any place that sets up barriers for non-trads is not a place where you would want to study anyway. Clearly, they lack not only vision and imagination but plain and simple common sense.</p>
<p>A lot of people do this. My daughter's best friend is in her last semester at a CC where she got a full ride scholarship (which she would not have got at a larger school) so her first 2 years have been free. She is transferring to my daughter's school in the fall.</p>
<p>If you have an idea of what your eventual major and school will be make sure you are taking transferable classes. My daughter's friends brother was going the same route to start with, 2 year CC then transfer. At the end of his first year they found out out the 4 year school he was transferring to was going to change some of the requirements so it actually made more sense for him to transfer earlier or he would not benefit from a lot of the CC classes (can't remember the exact details). So just make sure you are looking at long term plans and talking to both the advisers at the CC and the ones at the eventual 4 year school if possible.</p>
<p>I’m doing that, it took alot of thought deciding to transfer with out an A.A or with one. I’m still in the process of obtaining it but by winter semester it should be over with and hopefully everything goes smoothly.</p>