<p>Hi I am a senior in high school but considering attend a 2 year community college and then transfer to a women's college in New England. </p>
<p>My GPA from junior year is really bad and I would really want to use transfer as a way to bring my grades up. And I also just realize that I want to attend a college far away from home not long ago. I applied to UC and CSU but wonder if it would be better if I transfer from a community college or one of the UC/CSU?</p>
<p>p.s. the result for UC/USC won't be out until March..</p>
<p>go to community college. save money, stress, and have a school that wants to see you go on to another college. if you are stuck on a particular selective women's college in NE, than it might be better if you attend a university. however, you might be surprised how much you change over the next two years. just enjoy whatever time you have, and try not to plan too much. best of luck.</p>
<p>i don't know. i went to university over cc; i regret my decision. however, this is just me. i am probably going to cc next year and then applying to UCs. i went against my conscience and this is what happened. my best advice is to just go where you want. if you work hard it won't matter what school you end up at.</p>
<p>Non-state schools will prefer universities/LACs over CCs because there is generally a pretty big difference in the education. State schools like to take CC students because, well, that's pretty much the purpose of state schools. The state schools are to educate the kids in its state and they like to take kids from the community colleges in their state to give them a chance like everyone else.</p>
<p>If the school is really selective, CC will most likely not look as good as a 4-year.</p>
<p>I post with great reluctance. For those who say a cc provides less of a chance of transfer to a selective 4yr school, well, I went to a cc, finished about two weeks ago, and transfered to the most selective among the five college schools, and I am not even sure I know what the acronym SAT means.</p>
<p>I went to a four year for two and a half years, I needed to come home do to family stuff so I did semester at community college before transferring to another university. Absolutely no difference in education. I would actually go to community college for basics like Orgo instead of Michigan where I attend now because of class sizes. But I went to a good CC in a college town (so most teachers, especially for science were retired or ABDs from the local 4 year) make sure you actually like your CC before you go there.</p>
<p>Obviously since I go to Michigan and its public there are a ton of CC transfers but I also got in to several private schools including a women's college in Massachusetts. You'll also have to do a little bit more work because your CC probably won't be famillar with the transfer process to your new school but I think CCs are awesome.</p>
<p>I think if you have a good reason for going to a CC it's not a negative...financial reasons for one example or like you, wanting to prove yourself with better grades. My one caution would be to look thoroughly into the classes and majors offered by the CC and how those CC credits transfer to the 4yrs you are considering. When I decided to major in biology I had to switch CC's because virtually none of the science credits at my original school would transfer towards completion of my degree.</p>
<p>i went to cc and i am now a junior at usc. if you make the most out of it a cc will take you anywhere you wanna go. people that were in the honor society with me at cc have been able to transfer to cornell, columbia, pomona, the uc's, and usc.</p>