<p>Since when do “good schools” enroll community college students?</p>
<p>I guess UCLA and Berkeley don’t count? Not even USC?</p>
<p>Please, have some tiny bit of knowledge before you make stupid statements like that.</p>
<p>I thought you meant “good schools.”</p>
<p>Judging from your other topics, you didn’t get into Harvard/Yale/etc. and are now bitter for settling for UCLA/USC/Berkeley/etc. </p>
<p>Talk about the embodiment of a College Confidential stereotype.</p>
<p>What are “good schools?” Berkeley is good in my book.</p>
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<p>wow. Too stingy to get a college loan? I think people forget that these loans have to be paid off! Just by going into a state school this would run me at around $12,000 a year for tuition, room & board, etc. Sorry, I’m just not going to put myself in that kind of debt. When you first start college getting a loan sounds as easy as asking your parents for money to buy ice cream. Students and prospective students don’t realize how serious this is and that people are in debt for a long time after school from them. </p>
<p>“almost no one will take you seriously and you will be stigmatized the rest of your life”</p>
<p>Wow…I’m not even sure what to say!! A lot of nurses have associates degrees and get by just fine. They have very important and respected jobs, but I guess nurses are nothing to you. </p>
<p>Even state schools cost a fortune these days. There’s no shame in going to a community college, and it’s a perfectly smart decision. The stupid decision is to put yourself into tens of thousand of dollars of debt- per year!- just because you couldn’t bring yourself to go to a community college.</p>
<p>Judging from your other topics, you didn’t get into Harvard/Yale/etc. and are now bitter for settling for UCLA/USC/Berkeley/etc.</p>
<p>Talk about the embodiment of a College Confidential stereotype. </p>
<p>How do you know I even applied to those schools?</p>
<p>Combining your attitude in this topic with another one you made:</p>
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<p>I just assumed. Tell me then, if you aren’t at Harvard or Yale, and Berkeley isn’t a good school, what qualifies as a good school?</p>
<p>My definition of a “good school” has nothing to do with the schools I applied to or got accepted to.</p>
<p>Then please describe what qualifies as a good school, in your opinion.</p>
<p>Only stupid people think community college is stupid. There are many, many reasons why someone may pick community college over a university. Money is a big one. You may think you are “better” than CC students because you attended a university for fours years instead of two. Well in case you didn’t know…someone who starts at a CC then transfer to a 4 year still gets the same degree as you, for less of the cost. Then there are people who get a technical or vocational degree at a CC and can end up making more money than a university graduate because they actually have JOB training.</p>
<p>Personally, I used to have a negative opinion of community college. Then I realized that my state public, the cheapest option, is going to be roughly 20k a year. </p>
<p>I’ll be taking some CC courses in the summer, and combined with CLEP credit, I’m hoping to save roughly a year or two of tuition.</p>
<p>pandem I apologize if I struck a nerve. If the OP plans to transfer to a four year college (even if it’s just a state school) I suppose that’s not bad.</p>
<p>I think Community Colleges are fantastic for those who need them. True they aren’t comparable to 4-year universities but they serve their purpose of offering a reasonably priced education to those who just need some technical training to get a decent job.</p>
<p>A lot of people here aren’t too into the idea of a community college because it doesn’t provide what they’re looking for (namely a liberal education), but there’s nothing wrong with that. Different people are in different positions, some people aren’t happy with their position in life and have decided to do something about it even with their limited means, I think that’s pretty admirable.</p>
<p>I don’t often have good things to say about education in this country but the fact that we have a place for people who want to better themselves a little bit but don’t need to drop $50,000 for 4 years of extraneous information is pretty great.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter to me. You’re the one with baseless opinions. </p>
<p>If you’re going to apologize to someone, apologize to yourself.</p>
<p>orientationed-- I happen to personally know two people who went to community college and then transferred to Brown. Is Brown a “good school”?</p>
<p>I won’t apologize to myself as I stand by what I said. Choosing a community college over a four year college is a bad idea unless you have absolutely no ambition in life. On the other hand, if you plan to go to a community college and then transfer to a four year college after two years, that’s perfectly fine with me.</p>
<p>Still waiting for an answer. What’s a good school, if USC and UCLA aren’t?</p>
<p>The fine (or charge or whatever) is after you take STARs money for your CC years then transfer to an out of state school or a private school I think. My friend told me this via text, I have no idea if it’s true as I did not take STARs.</p>
<p>My CC is one of the lowest ranked in my state yet people still go on to Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, etc, etc every year. The CC probably has a better Ivy placement rate than all my county’s high schools combined.</p>
<p>Orientationed, I hope you remember that the next time a nurse takes care of you in a hospital or doctor’s office or if a paramedic saves the life of a loved one. Community colleges offer training for tons of careers. Also, if one goes to a college and gets a degree that sounds like ambition to me.</p>