<p>I was wondering if going to a good community college effects your chances of transferring to a 4 year college? Like if you are in a good college your chances of transferring are higher the most other community colleges. </p>
<p>Currently I am going to a good cc and it is very hard while some of my friends taking the same classes as me at another cc saying they are easy and getting good grades (their cc is not too good overall). </p>
<p>It does not make sense for me to work really hard when I can just change my cc and get better grades at another cc with less work. </p>
<p>And this is not just 1 class it is literally every class (or so it seems). And my friends have much more free time then I do. </p>
<p>The only benefit that I can see is that my current cc is well more funded then theirs but both cc have identical classes and offer very similar programs and the ones that my college have dont affect me. </p>
<p>Btw sorry if I posted this on the wrong section on the fourms, not sure were I would put this,</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you are planning to transfer, and you want to do well at your 4-year college/university, you are better off taking tougher classes and working hard for your grades now so you will have the skills you need for those upper-level courses.</p>
<p>Stop listening to your friends about how easy their classes are and how good their grades are. Pay attention to your own business so that you can get the grades you deserve, and you can get on with your life.</p>
<p>Well my major is computer science and I find myself to be really good with that (I devote lot of time outside of class to it), it is just math req and physics that I personally think are wasting my time. From what I am told from lot of programmers that it is very rare you will deal calculus or physics and if you do it is usually is not the programmers problem they will be told what to do. </p>
<p>I really badly want to get an internship and was offered couple times from some bosses / managers I knew but could not take it because of my work load so I thought that may be if I switched cc I can take up on some of these opportunities. </p>
<p>I may plan on not going to graduate school (at least not in computer science). I am also in California so admissions are getting way competitive even in some csu due to budget cuts. With all that I feel that it is better to take work load off from classes I consider filler and really allocate more time to what I really want to do.</p>
<p>I just want to know if colleges care if you went to good community college and does it even affect there decision processes. Like if a student has a 3.3 from a community college with a good reputation vs someone with a 3.4-3.5 at a not so good community college. Personally I feel that colleges do not seem to care but cant seem to find any evidence to back it up.</p>
<p>Your question depends on the CC, the U, and many other factors. Go have a sit-down meeting with the Transfer Advisor at your CC and find out about their experience with students in your major who had similar transfer lists as you expect to have. Then, go sit down with your academic advisor and get feedback from that person.</p>
<p>Lastly, just because your pals report that their math and physics classes have been easy does not mean that those classes would have been equally easy for you had you been sitting right next to them during class, and it certainly does not mean that if you transfer to their CC and enroll in future classes taught by the same instructor that those classes will be easy for you - or even that those “easy” instructors will be available.</p>
<p>If that other CC is within easy commuting distance, and you have hard evidence that the easy class will stay “easy”, then consider commuting there for just those particular classes. But do your best to find out somehow if students who have taken those “easy” classes still felt that they were well-prepared for their junior and senior level classes after transfer. You don’t want to be stuck playing catch-up after transfer.</p>
<p>Is it more important to transfer than get ready for junior and senior? I remember in high school there was a student who took all easy classes and got in to Berkeley with a 3.8-3.9 while someone with a 3.5 with ap classes got rejected from most uc. I do understand your point that my junior and senior year will be much of a challenge but sometimes those challenges can harm you and in the high school I learned that the hard way. </p>
<p>I looked up the classes that I would be taking if I transferred and there is no math and physics as all that would be done at cc. All that I would be taking is ge and finishing my comp sci classes. So I see little benefit from busting myself for those physics and calc classes that I hate. </p>
<p>I have also seen the tests from my friends tests at the other cc and They are easier but not a free A. </p>
<p>Also I did research between my cc and my friends cc and the college I am attending has a significantly higher transfer rate. I have no idea if this means that colleges are more likely to pick a student who has attended a good cc or if colleges dont care about the cc you attended and has no affect towards admissions. </p>
<p>The only reason I would change cc is if colleges dont care if you went to a good cc and has no effect on admissions.</p>
<p>nobody knows what a good vs bad cc is…get the highest GPA you can…yes I went to a CC that was probably “good”…grades vary prof to prof, even within the same dept for the exact same classes</p>
<p>The rigor of your courses, the height of your GPA, and the quality of your recommendations from the CC professors will outweigh the prestige (or lack thereof) of your community college.</p>
<p>Work hard, do well, challenge yourself, and cultivate the relationships that lead to good recommendations.</p>