<p>Should I go to community college for 2 years and get transferred to UCLA or UCBerkeley or should I go to 4 year college at University of Michigan or University of Illinois or university of Texas </p>
<p>What can you pay for? What are your stats (what are the odds you would be admitted)? If you think you can get into Michigan, no reason you could not also get into UCLA or UCBerkeley…</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>The only reason to ever go to a CC is due to financial or family reasons.
If you have the money to attend a 4 year and no family related issues like proximity or being needed to help out at home, then go to a 4 year college that provides you the best education at the best affordable cost.
Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Well, there are a lot of other reasons to go to a community college, but I think we don’t have enough background here to really help you make a decision OP. I also don’t understand how the choice is between a CC to UCLA or Berkeley or Michigan, UT or UIUC.</p>
<p>I live in San Diego. My community college counselor has assured me that I have capibility to transfer to UCLA or if I work hard to UCB. but I have to go to CC for 2 years before I get a transfer to any UC.
But if I don’t go to community college I can go for U of Michigan or U of Illinois which are not as good as UCs
Please help </p>
<p>Can you AFFORD the out-of-state price of Michigan, Illinois, Texas, etc.? These are generally solid universities for most academic subjects (and should not generally be considered worse than the UCs, although better/worse can depend on specific campuses and majors), but the main issue for you would be their affordability, since the UCs are likely to be much less expensive.</p>
<p>Also, these out-of-state universities are not necessarily easy to get admitted to.</p>
<p>Yes, that worries me, because if you have the grades to get into UM, I would think you might also be able to get into TOP rank UC schools. And where did you get the info about UM not as good as UC schools.
I think you have to research these schools more. Besides did you already apply, and rejected by these UC schools that you mentioned?</p>
<p>Most of the people I know who graduated from Berkeley back in the 70s, 80s, 90s went to CC first. I don’t know what the numbers are like these days, though.</p>
<p>I’ve only taken a few classes at a CC for interest, but I thought they were taught pretty well. There’s absolutely no problem with going to a CC.</p>
<p>If you can’t get into UCLA outright now, you can’t get into Michigan. Michigan and UCB are quite comparable schools. As an OOS student, admission is tougher than in-state.</p>
<p>There certainly are more reasons than @ccco2018’s limited list of reasons why someone might go to a CC over a 4 year college. They include:
- Someone is interested in a career that can be started with only an AA degree.
- I know a student with anxiety issues who thought it would be better to live at home for two years and ease into college. Other student health issues might also cause the student to prefer to live at home for the first two years.
- Some students messed around too much in high school and have to go to CC to get their grades up for a 4 year school. I used to be married to one of them – he ended up eventually graduating from Georgetown Law, but started his post-high school education with two years at our local CC.</p>
<p>A CC counselor cannot assure that you will get into UCB or UCLA. They can only assure that you can take the classes that those universities accept. No one can guarantee that you will get into those schools.</p>
<p>^^ True, but none of those was OP’s situation, as she had the grades to grades to go to other prestigious 4years universities with a decided major.</p>
<p>You didn’t know that when you posted your limited view that
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<p>ccco, did I miss something? According to what I’ve read here, the OP didn’t say they had already been accepted to those OOS schools.</p>
<p>@intparent “STOP” RE BOTTLING ON ALL MY POST."
Post away yours and keep it moving. If I did not know better, I would consider your actions “CYBER STALKING”. This should be a civilized forum and enough with the name callings. You are an adult so act like one.</p>
<p>It’s a good idea to talk about money realistically with your folks. CC can save a huge amount of money for many folks. Our D attended CC for 3 terms and then transferred to a very competitive 4-year private U and got into a very selective major. She had the SAME instructors at her CC that taught at our flagship U, the same courses with MUCH smaller class sizes. She got a lot of individual attention, tuition was only about $1000 per term, with books about $500 or less. Food and parking were also great at the CC.</p>
<p>Going to an OOS U (even if prestigious and you are accepted) can cost a LOT of money. Many states Us are having budgets reduced, making it tougher to graduate in 4 years and many give little or no funding to nonresidents. </p>
<p>CA state Us give a lot more favorable consideration for transfers from CC than transfers from 4-year Us. They have articulation agreements on what they will accept as transfer credits and that can be a great way to get a less expensive education.</p>
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<p>“Re-Bottling”? Is that something like what Coca-Cola does? Not a word, I think. You would have to retract in Scrabble. </p>
<p>You are posting on an open forum, and you are giving a lot of partial truths and bad advice. I am not stalking, but I do typically look at latest posts when I am out here. Students and parents come here with the expectation that they will get GOOD advice. Not comments that slam people who make other choices (like your broad assumption about who would attend a CC) or misstatements about colleges (like your completely inaccurate dis of Macalester’s neighborhood a couple of days ago). Reign in your hyperbole and “guesses” about colleges, and you will find less pushback.</p>
<p>^ And what gives you the qualification to be one to decide who’s post is more reliable than the other.
It seems like you will do anything to put your NOSE in anyone’s business.
Again post away, and let the OP decide what he/she finds helpful in their respective cases.
In my perspective, your case is probably an issue of bad habits dying hard, and I am sure it has serve you well in life.
Keep it up.</p>
<p>I just wanted to point out that people coming from different states likely have very different perceptions of community colleges. In some states, community colleges can be a step down from for-profit diploma mills.</p>
<p>However, California community colleges are a great resource for everyone from:
dual-enrollment high school students to
UC/CSU transfer candidates to
people needing vocational training and certification to
adults retraining for a new career to
UC students wanting to get some transferable credits during summer to
people who want a great meal through a CC culinary program to<br>
people just interested in playing in an orchestra or learning a new sport or a new programming language or a new foreign language. </p>
<p>In general, they are excellent and inexpensive.</p>
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<p>There is this annoying thing called factual information… It gives CC a bad reputation when people provide incorrect or misleading information, or make sweeping over the top generalizations.</p>