<p>Hi everyone.
So I’ll come to the US next year to pursue my bachelor’s degree and my plan is to go to Columbus State Community College the first two years and then transfer to Ohio State University. I heard good stuff about CSCC and my grades are pretty good but I am going there due to financial reasons.</p>
<p>Anyways, in most sources online, and even on CSCC’s official website, is written that you can easily transfer to OSU after you complete the first two years at CSCC.</p>
<p>I just wanted to know if the word “easily” was put there “by mistake”?
I’ve been browsing this section of the forum for a couple of days lately and I have found a big amount of posts that say that OSU is getting more competitive lately, is that true?
Is it easier to apply to OSU since the beginning of your studies or do Community College students get some sort of advantage?</p>
<p>I’ll be studying Computer Science, if that helps.
Thanks.</p>
<p>I transferred from CSCC and so do many others (including a lot of engineering students). State law guarantees graduates of CSCC admittance to OSU, but I’m not sure what the details were. For example, I don’t know if this only pertains to residents of Ohio or US citizens. Feel free to email CSCC advisors and OSU admissions advisors. I transferred before actually getting an Associate of Science degree from CSCC, I did about 1.5 years of part-time studies (doing all of my math and intro physics) and transferred to OSU because it was time.</p>
<p>Do you plan to get a CIS degree from OSU, or a CSE degree? CSE is through the college of engineering, and I’m more familiar with the CoE requirements. In any event, I don’t believe there are many computer science or programming classes from CSCC that transfer over to OSU, but all of the math does. Take discrete math while at OSU, take as much math there as you can, the quality of math teaching at CSCC is better than at OSU. If doing CSE, you will also need to take intro calc-based physics classes. You can take these at CSCC as well.</p>
<p>If you can take a C, C++, or Java class at CSCC, then that may transfer as your intro programming class, but no other programming classes from CSCC will transfer, they aren’t rigorous enough.</p>
<p>I am aware of multiple foreign students (a Japanese guy and lots of Africans) who were in my classes at CSCC and who I know are now at OSU, mostly studying engineering/CS. (Somalians love studying CS it seems) So non-citizens have done it before.</p>
<p>Oh that’s great to hear. I have e-mailed the OSU admission office and I’m waiting for their reply, it seems to good to be true, I really hope this applies for international students too.</p>
<p>I plan to study Computer and Information Science at OSU. I don’t know what the Information Science is, but I want to work as a developer after graduation (software developer, video game developer, etc.), and I read that the Computer Science Engineering major is more about the hardware part of computers.
Really, the programming classes at CSCC don’t transfer to OSU? Why??
Also I am REALLY hoping I WONT have to do a lot with physics, I’m good at math but b*tchy teachers have followed me everywhere in physics and that subject has made my life a living hell.</p>
<p>Also one more thing, I’m completely clueless, but as I mentioned I want to lean towards the game developer field, and it appreciates “art”, I was thinking of also studying some sort of web design or graphic design, but I did find no such thing at the OSU majors list. Are they not available at all?</p>
<p>I did find a major like this at CSCC, I want to know, is it possible to pick both Computer Science and Graphic Design at CSCC? Is that allowed (I think it’s called double majoring?)</p>
<p>Well, I said it applies to GRADUATES of CSCC, not just people who have attended. You need an AS or AA from CSCC to be guarantee admission to OSU. But if you go to CSCC for just a year and do well in calc classes and physics classes, that will help your chances of getting into OSU. Even better would be participating in undergraduate research with a professor at OSU while going to CSCC, it’ll show dedication.</p>
<p>And CSE is more hardware focused but you can vary how much this focus is. CIS is a rigourous CS degree, not an IT or business programming sort of degree (like most degrees with the word “information” in their name), and a friend of mine who was a CIS major also studied hardware systems down to the logic gates in one class, but that was an elective. You can do CSE the hardware-light way if you want. There are certain perks that come from having your degree through the college of engineering instead of the college of arts and sciences. For one thing you can participate in Engineering Career Fairs, the engineering career services group (helps you with internships), and you have the cachet of having “engineering” in your degree title.</p>
<p>You might be thinking of CE, computer engineering. This is a heavily-hardware focused degree, whereas CSE is a hybrid of CE and CS, and it is the college of engineering’s name for it’s CS program.</p>