differences in community colleges

Transfer Students
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<p>I've seen people say that they can take 20+ units w/ 4.0 at their community colleges and not study much. I also seen people say their community college gives take home finals and exams etc.</p>

<p>Not the one that i went to. Most of the profs there have PhD. Every single one in chemistry dept. Most profs have taught at ucla and other prestigious schools. They taught exactly the same way there. People who transferred have said that even some of the classes at this community college were harder than ucla and cal. I know people who commuted 60 miles to go to this college. </p>

<p>So, i don't know what was up at ur ccc, but this what i went thru last two years.</p>

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<p>You went to SMC I'm assuming?</p>

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<p>I had take home finals :) </p>

<p>i took 18 units with a 4.0 as and 9 units in the summer with a 4.0 too.</p>

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<p>this is why i find it a little hard to believe that UCs view all CCs the same. i mean i know they're suppose to but i'm sure they take the fact that one CC is better than the other, into consideration..</p>

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<p>i've only had take home exams in a summer course b/c there just isn't really enough time to learn Calculus III and do the tests in class...but out of 5 exams, we've only had 2 that were take home, and the last two will be this coming week! </p>

<p>Most all of my teachers had PhDs and all other classes have been regular testing experiences. </p>

<p>Malishka31 - I didn't know you'd gone to a CC. Didn't you get into Wharton and McCombs, among others? What CC did you go to?</p>

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<p>cardinal, i did go to smc. </p>

<p>I don't think it matters what ccc u went to.</p>

<p>But for what it's worth, the math dept at smc doesn't permit the use of graphing calculators for any classes. If a take home exam is suggested, it's as a joke. B/c a take home exam is called homework. If you have half a brain for a take home exam, u varify/copy ur answers from classmates or hire some tutor to help/do it for u.</p>

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<p>"cardinal, i did go to smc. </p>

<p>I don't think it matters what ccc u went to."</p>

<p>I agree with you on this one highschoolda. If you can make it to UCLA/UCB/UCSD, you can really make it from any community college in California. Your motivation and determination mean more than anything. </p>

<p>"But for what it's worth, the math dept at smc doesn't permit the use of graphing calculators for any classes. If a take home exam is suggested, it's as a joke. B/c a take home exam is called homework. If you have half a brain for a take home exam, u varify/copy ur answers from classmates or hire some tutor to help/do it for u."</p>

<p>I don't know about this one. It seems like your equating intelligence with the initiative to cheat when given the opportunity.</p>

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<p>No CC allows graphing calculator</p>

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<p>mine does...mine also allows Maple as long as you know how to use it.</p>

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<p>I did not get in or apply to any of the aforementioned schools. </p>

<p>I went to 5 CCs in san diego</p>

<p>Grossmont
Mesa
Miraramar
MiraCosta
Cuyamaca</p>

<p>My CC allowed graphing calculators, some taught you how to use them for certain problems and some of the CCs in the above list required a calculator higher than 83.</p>

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<p>ah sry wrong person</p>

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<p>My CC does.</p>

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<p>the amount of studying depends on the major...a sociology major can take 20 units and not study much</p>

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I don't know about this one. It seems like your equating intelligence with the initiative to cheat when given the opportunity.

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<p>No, i am just saying that take home exams are a joke b/c LSAT, MCAT, DAT, SAT, ACT etc would never allow u to take it at home. Especially board exams after u graduate. </p>

<p>and by a "joke", i mean exams are suppose to have time limitations, stress factors, and suppose to distinguish between A-B-C students. </p>

<p>But take home exams are the only problems in ccc. Some teachers will give u the same problems that u've seen in HW, while others try to give u stuff that u have to really think outside of the box and challenge urself. </p>

<p>BTW, i am in no way looking down on people who went to ccc that are easier and always try to find easy teachers. I tried to do the same. absolutely nothing wrong w/ that.</p>

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<p>^ Thanks for clarifying :)</p>

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<p>i've had taken econ exams...and damn they were HARD!!!
60 questions and took me almost the whole day to do it!</p>

<p>on top of doing the 60 MC questions....i had to fully explain why i chose the answer i did for each question</p>

<p>i never underestimate the difficulty of take home exams</p>

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<p>yeah i agree i generally don't like the take home exams because they take SO much longer to do due to the increased difficulty of the problems. my calc 3 exams usually take an entire day (minus food time) to do... =(</p>

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<p>It's funny, the first take home final I'm going to have is a UC Berkeley course.</p>

<p>My CC was realtivly hard, but then again I was a 10 min walk from UCR. I would say, sitting in both classes at RCC and UCR, they were about equal in the ammount of work. Once you've handled a good Bluebook/Scantron exam, you're set for the most part.</p>

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<p>Again, it's not about take home exams. I am talking about general dificulty of exams.</p>

<p>A lot of social sciences and humanities give take home exams in UC, but it's never the case in life, physical sciences and math. I guess i should never say "never", but from everyone who i talked to they don't exist. You will have classes where the average exam scores are 20-40%.</p>

<p>SO, againn I don't care if u have take home exams in a social science.</p>

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<p>Thats funny that you say that coming from SMC because I've heard from several students (not just one) that the chemistry classes over there are easier. What they would do is take it at my ccc (El Camino), and then fail, and enroll at SMC and get an A. I don't know about the math over there though, but its interesting that I heard from more than one person that the chemistry classes at SMC are easy.</p>