<p>@Itachirumon. I’m not talking about those who take 3 units a semester and it takes them 5 years to transfer because their schedules don’t allow them to take any more courses. That fine with me. That’s why fin aid IS unit based. If you’ve taken 4 years of UNITS at CC, then in my opinion you do not deserve any more financial aid for CC from the tax payer.</p>
<p>I’m going to have to agree with that.
It’s totally one thing to have life circumstances like kids, full time jobs, life problems etc. that keep you from transferring in a certain window. The jab is at lazy ass people who take full time classes, drop out of them or fail them and it takes forever. Ultimately, other people’s academic career doesn’t affect me so my opinion doesn’t matter, but like a true American, I’m saying it anyway.
As we are all transfer students here, we understand that life gets in the way and it reality isn’t “ohh go to UCLA out of high school and graduate at 21 and get a masters by 23” sort of thing.</p>
<p>@USMC point taken. And I thought you were referring to people who only take a few units per semester due to scheduling difficulties, not full time. And yes taking 4-5 years (full time) to transfer is quite excessive. And I think if you attempted 90 units and still havn’t graduated then your financial aid gets cancelled anyways, so this isnt really the issue. I think right now the more important problem is weeding out those people who come to CC just to get the financial aid. I hear this is a big issue at the moment.</p>