<p>CCC should sell T-Shirts with the school logo in the front and "Save me 20K" printed on the back.</p>
<p>Nope, very fond of my college. Helped me succeed, met some wonderful professors and mentors, great and demanding honors program... I am actually proud of my CC... Number 1 in the entire nation in technology usage and I was just named to the All-USA First Academic Team (April 11 in Boston)...Very very proud :)</p>
<p>If someone tries to make fun my CC after I transfer, I'll ask them how much they are paying for student loans. I think that'll shut em up.</p>
<p>My books cost more than my tuition!!</p>
<p>my favorite is when I run into people from my hs that went to a four year school and ended up coming back to a jc. These were the same people who would keep telling me not to go to my jc out of high school.</p>
<p>I'm one of those people who went to a four-year after high school. On top of getting ugly grades, I really disliked the university. After a year there, I ended up coming to a CC. </p>
<p>It was really refreshing to find the smaller classes, more attentive faculty and staff at the CC. Mind you, many of the professors were also teaching at reputable schools like Northeastern, Bentley, Clark and Boston College. I doubt the quality of the courses varied considerably. </p>
<p>I didn't spend a dime on my education at Middlesex Community College and I was lucky enough to score awards that covered the cost of my textbooks. The articulation agreement between the CC and UMass Amherst was really delicious too- ALL my courses transferrred without a hitch, 33% tuition discount, $4g's worth of merit scholarship and some nice book awards that essentially cover all of my expenses. Now trying to transfer to NYU or Wisconsin (already accepted at Worcester Poly, UMD-College Park). I love how people's eyes light up like saucers when I tell them I owe zip in student loans!</p>
<p>i believe there are TONS of community college students(at least 70%) are better than Cal State U students.</p>
<p>I am not ashamed of going to a CCC because in the end, all that matter is where you get that degree.</p>
<p>However, the downside of going to a CCC is numerous, as much as the upside. Upside, obviously, saves money...</p>
<p>downside, you're surrounded by so many people that are underachievers, espeically in general classes...and if you get caught up in it, you become one yourself. Espeically true when lots of ppl have no direction in life, are parents/taking classes simulatenously, etc etc. Gotta find your own niche of ppl trying to transfer and sadly, i havent found that yet.</p>
<p>Lilomui does your school have an honors program? Honestly even though I really don't hangout much with people in it, I did feel better when I joined that group. I at least came to see that I was not the only student on the campus who was interested in transfering, and that others did care about their grades.</p>
<p>Yes, and I did check it out. But when I went to the meeting, no one showed up so i was pretty discouraged.</p>
<p>Honestly, almost 80% of the ppl that I myself have met seems to drop outta school and go find a job, or they transfer to Sacramento State University (agreement). The other people usually goes to UCdavis cuz we have a transfer agreement with them as well, and then theres the select few that I met who aims for ucla..berkeley. I havent found the "core" group of ppl who are looking to the "top" schools yet , and i dont really care anymore because im outta here in 3 weeks :)</p>
<p>Iilomui, there is this older guy, who is the parent of a highschool kid that he gave birth in highschool, in my physics class, and is about to transfer to UCB.</p>
<p>he is 20 points higher on the physics final grade than anyone else. Parents don't suck.</p>
<p>allena are you russian?</p>
<p>If anything the older students make CCs more mature. My CC definitely needs it!</p>
<p>I love russian stuff, hehe, mostly their airplanes and chicks.</p>
<p>Never knew video game can give you a long lasting impression on a country.</p>
<p>Blackdream:
uh...i never said that parents sucked.
i said that parents who take classes simulatenously while trying to juggle with their families usually arent the ones that are trying to get into top universities, granted there are those exceptional ones that are trying to, i can safely say that 80% of them in my college arent.</p>
<p>Neboola... If you want to get really technical about it I guess I could fall under Russian. I've got realitives who came from Russia, however I was born and raised (as were my parents and grandparents) in Southern California. :)</p>
<p>Why do you ask?</p>
<p>Lil,</p>
<p>I agree with you to a certain extent, but I see a huge gap in community colleges that I would assume exist in a state university, too.</p>
<p>My honors seminar has students that want to push themselves and go to Minnesota's more prestigous schools; they want to be social workers, doctors, and English professors- and I love history :)</p>
<p>The other end of this extreme is evident on the grading spreadsheet that my Psychology professors puts on a hallway way- about 20% of the students have "F"s with several zero's in quizzes. This course is more difficult than average, but it isn't really that hard if you try- I will probably get a "B", but I'll be about 2 points from a A :( From what I can see, about 40% of the students (including the previous 20) have C's or less-. </p>
<p>I have two friends that I have known for years, one of them since first grade, but neither of them are willing to commit to college, they've already wasted thousands because they lack financial aid.</p>
<p>Wierd.</p>