Community college transfer to UC system

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i disagree. i think those years spent in high school provide growth in otherwise intangible factors, such as maturity, self-esteem, and responsibility. going to community college @ 16 or so is not something i'd recommend.

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<p>That's crap. High school is damaging to maturity, self-esteem, and responsibility. High school students are coddled like children and practically expected to be immature. The environment is completely hostile to anyone trying to foster self-esteem, and it does anything but encourage responsibility.</p>

<p>Going to community college at 15-16 is a great idea.</p>

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<p>"That's crap. High school is damaging to maturity, self-esteem, and responsibility. High school students are coddled like children and practically expected to be immature."</p>

<p>It all depends on which HS you go to. All HS's are not the same.</p>

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<p>I went to one of the best high schools in my area, and i left high school at 16 and went to community college.</p>

<p>Very FEW people that were in my high school could have went and succesfully completed community college at that age.</p>

<p>If my kids wanted to pursue something like going to cc at 16 i would be against it. There are a lot of things you give up when you go to CC at 16 that its better to experience in the comfort of high school.</p>

<p>Basiclly when your 16 you will make mistakes, and its much better to make them in high school, having the CC option still left, than to make them at CC having no options left.</p>

<p>WOrking hard in high school is beneficial, and you could go to a great school. JUst the same finishing high shcool and then going to CC and working hard is also a good idea, but its not what you should plan on in order to mess around in high school. </p>

<p>For some students going to CC and leaving high school early is the best alternative, but, those students are few and no matter how motivated you may be when u start, you are 16 and what you want will change 100 times over.</p>

<p>I went at 16, and it took 5 years, i didnt win out on anything except for i got into a much better school than i could have from high school, but then again, i messed around in high school a lot. </p>

<p>It depends what type of person you are and what your doing at that time. By all means if you can , you should aim for doing well in HS and going to a good school out of high school, because CC is not a huge step up from HS . I would compare CC closer to HS than to a Uni. It has to do a lot with the grading, the type of work, etc....... CC gives you a lot of busy work, and you dont actually have to study if you just pay attention...... i highly doubt that a Uni is like that... CC allows you to get an A even if you got a C on every exam... ... also not a thing that happens in Uni.</p>

<p>ANyways, in my opinion, HS is better prep for CC than Uni. But if you can avoid the CC route you should, i dont think it should be anyones goal, itsbetter to aim higher than lower.</p>

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<p>hey im goign to have to go to a community college for one semester before i attend berkeley in the spring....what classes should i take if im a bio major...do i take the same ones as people who are planning to transfer to a UC in two years as opposed to one semester? and some told me not to take calculus for math....?</p>

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<p>"CC gives you a lot of busy work"</p>

<p>That seems funny to me. My CC never had busy work in the high school sense. What do you define as busy work?</p>

<p>"you dont actually have to study if you just pay attention...CC allows you to get an A even if you got a C on every exam..."</p>

<p>What CC did you go to? I'm curious because that doesn't sound like the CC I went to. The people that did that were the flunkies. It would be very difficult to ace Calculus without doing the problems, write an A research paper without researching, etc.</p>

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<p>I went to 5 diffrent CCs in the San DIego area. </p>

<p>All were almost the same.</p>

<p>By busy work i mean little worksheets worth 5 points, but 40% of your grade that were impossible to fail unless you were an idiot. things like that ..... things that basiclly buffered your grade to the point of impossiblity of failure.</p>

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<p>this thread is as cool as ryan seacrest</p>

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<p>"CC allows you to get an A even if you got a C on every exam"</p>

<p>Damn, I got the short end of the straw at my CCC. Recently, I was an "A" going into both my physics and my electrical circuits finals both finals worth 30%). I got a D on both finals; both professors did a 180 twist on the finals and gave the hardest finals of my life. I ended up with a B in circuits and physics is still unknown.</p>

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<p>^ditto.</p>

<p>Out of the 4 classes I took during the spring, 2 of them used only four exams, averaged, for the entire semester grade. It wasn't just multiple-choice either, it was a 3 page in-test essay and several short answer questions in a Bluebook. I remember it vividly because I would walk out of the exam with hand cramps.</p>

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<p>Hand cramps...That reminds me of the old days in HS when I didn't have a word processor and had to rewrite the those standard 3 rough drafts + final draft by hand...Man, I'll gladly kiss the curb now.</p>

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i think those years spent in high school provide growth in otherwise intangible factors, such as maturity, self-esteem, and responsibility. going to community college @ 16 or so is not something i'd recommend.

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<p>I think someone who goes to CC instead of HS will still learn those qualities just because of the fact that they are acquiring more life experience and their brains are becoming more physically mature (our brains change a lot during adolescence). I think CC encourages those qualities more than HS does, actually; I felt that those courses placed more responsibility on me than the HS ones since they were faster-paced and had less hand-holding from teachers.</p>

<p>I started CC at 15 and left HS at 16 after I got my CHSPE. I don't regret my decision, and I feel it was the best one for me to take. It's taken me years to get to the transferring point, due to family and health problems that prevented me from going to CC full-time, and the time that it took for me to decide on a major, but I think I wasted less time than if I were to have stayed in HS until graduation. HS classes and college-level GEs are redundant IMO, and I didn't see any point to doing the same classes twice.</p>

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I went to 5 diffrent CCs in the San DIego area.</p>

<p>All were almost the same.</p>

<p>By busy work i mean little worksheets worth 5 points, but 40% of your grade that were impossible to fail unless you were an idiot. things like that ..... things that basiclly buffered your grade to the point of impossiblity of failure.

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<p>I went to 3 CCs in SD and did not have that experience. And plenty of people in my classes got Cs or worse. In high school, definitely there was a lot of busy work, but not in the CCs, and that's why I left HS early.</p>