<p>I think most would agree that community college is easier than the top national universities, but just how much easier? </p>
<p>A lot of people here have transferred to their state schools such as Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia....ect. Just how much more difficult are these schools? </p>
<p>I'm wondering if former community college students would comment on their experiences with this.... </p>
<p>I heard that getting As at a CC are equivalent to gettings Bs at a school like Michigan, does that seem about right?</p>
<p>thats a pretty big generalization on all community colleges.</p>
<p>I'm currently at a CC in Pennsylvania and the load is fairly easy but it isn't dumbed down. for example, my summer Calc I teacher also teaches at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University and informed us that this was the same Calc I class he taught at both of those schools. Just saying.</p>
<p>Yeah I realize that some teachers are easy and others are hard no matter where you go, but in general, CC seems to be a bit easier. </p>
<p>I'm currently taking classes at a CC and they are not so tough, even calc 2 is pretty easy. I'm just wondering how much harder a school like Wisconsin is, because I'm thinking about transferring there.</p>
<p>It also depends on the community college itself. I go to the College of Southern Maryland, and many people there who went to other schools tell me that it's much harder than other community colleges. Plus, I think it depends on the course; we can be certain that math is almost universal everywhere. We take the same English courses that University of MD: College Park has (and that school is one of the highest regarded state schools), plus we have this transfer agreenment with Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering. Let's not forget it also boils down to the professors.</p>
<p>It's as easy as you make it. It really depends on the courses and the professor. I have had Professors who got their PhD's from Yale/MIT/Caltech and so on and made their classes quite hard. I also had many professors who were simultaneously teaching at UCLA or taught before at UCB and were using the same book and covering the exact same topics here and were also grading the same way. I would say, if you really WANT TO, you can get the same education, just as hard as at any other university, at a (maybe not all) CC(s). However, most people don't want to, they simply want straight A's.</p>
<p>So, yes, if you choose the "right" (depends on how you define "right") professors, everything can be way easier than at a good university. This is a choice you often don't have at universities, that's what makes it harder. Therefore, on average, classes are probably easier due to the lack of motivated students and the lack of very well-educated Professors.</p>