do u guys think 4 year college has more opportunity to transfer to higher school? or
good community college and transfer is better ??
and I heard about some universities let students go to community colleges and come to their universities for granted
how that works? becuase i got fairly good sat scores for universities i applied for but i dont have any required high school
courses. thats why im thinking about community colleges.
Community colleges are designed to help students transfer into good 4 year university. A dumb 4 year college is designed to get you a degree, NOT for you to transfer after a couple of years. Do some research about what colleges your local community college feeds most of its students to. If you like the results, I’d suggest the community college route (which is typically much cheaper than the 4 year college route anyway.)
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Like @minohi said, CCs are designed for students who have transferring in mind. Well, some go for AA and stuff, but if you’re hear in College Confidential, I assume your goal is at least a Bachelors.
Anyhow, if it came to a 4 year university vs. community college transfer application, schools tend to give the edge to students transferring in from community colleges, rather than other students from 4 year universities. That is not to say it is impossible, but be aware you’ll be facing an upward struggle if you decide to go the 4 year university route.
Also, CCs are much cheaper than attending a 4 year university, especially if you enter the higher education system intending to transfer somewhere. Unless you have a some sort of super full ride scholarship that lets you go anywhere for free, I would suggest a CC. Even then, you’d still be at a disadvantage due to transfer priority going to CC students.
One of the best reasons, to me, for undergoing the CC route is that some CCs near your target school can act as “feeder” schools, meaning the school tends to ship students their way. For example, the UC system. Most of the UCs have programs such as TAG, which basically make it greatly effective for someone to undergo to CC route to get into a UC they might have gotten rejected by.
Hope this helps! 
How come you don’t have the required courses? Can’t you take them before this Fall?
The answer also heavily depends on the State (California vs. many other states - and whether the preferred system in your State is branch-campus-to flagship or CC-to-flagship, whether there are articulation agreements or not…) and on your goals (ie., it can be hard to get engineering pre-reqs at community college, and medical schools frown on CC classes especially for the science core.)
What colleges are you talking about?
You are very vague about your curricular shortcomings and college options. I don’t know whether that’s deliberate or not, but it’s difficult to make meaningful recommendations. Community College is not necessarily the best route for unmotivated students. They are likely to coast along with passing grades, which will not help them when it comes time to transfer. Many students have trouble putting together the necessary courseload in two years, and thereby end up paying for extra semesters. For those students, the four-year college might be preferable. They can coast along there, and still earn their degrees with 2.8 GPAs.
OP’s other posts indicate that the OP has a GED, has a 1720 SAT (460 CR, 660 M, 600 W), is 24 years old (presumably independent for financial aid purposes), is a New York resident, and wants to major in computer science or computer engineering.
In an earlier post OP wrote
The SAT score above is probably going to rule out any of the UCs for computer science or computer engineering. More to the point, the UCs do not give a penny in grants or scholarships to OOS students for the $100K OOS tuition over 4 years; all they’ll offer for it is loans, and it is unlikely the OP will qualify for loans of that amount.
I’m also puzzled by the OP’s characterization of these schools as “dumb”.
If you get into SUNY I’d take it, otherwise I’d go the 2 years at a CC to get back into the academic flow at a place that will probably give more support.
i didnt call those schools dumb those schools are actually my favorite schools. now i have 1850 sat score and i can not get admission from any schools due to the high school courses. and SUNY also they wouldnt give me an admission for no high school credits.
Then I guess you need to see what courses you need to take in a CC to get your HS requirements done.
If you have a GED, you can attend a NYS community college, get an Associate’s degree, then transfer to a 4-year SUNY. Talk to someone in the registration office at your local community college to find out the best way to proceed.
it depends on the quality of school.
If you want to transfer into a really prestigious university–top 25 or so–then factors like extracurricular are very important.
Typically a 4-yr university (designed for 18 yr olds) will have a wide variety of activities… On the other hand CC designed for 30 yr old + students will provide no ecs. Furthermore those CC typically future most business courses which don’t transfer.
If you can get into a good cc designed for 18 yr olds, Santa Monica College would be a great example of one, then I think you would have a better shot than at a 4 yr university for the simple fact that as a CC student you NEED to transfer whereas a 4-yr student can still graduate with a bachelors degree.
Also CC are typically more ingrained with the local community so you might find some really good ECs not offered at a 4-yr uni even in the same area.