<p>I found this Encarta article pretty interesting, as I've certainly experienced some of the "stigma" about attending a junior college. I was dual enrolled as a high school junior at a wonderful community college last year. It was a great experience; tiny classes (A couple only had 7-8 students!), extremely motivated professors, and interesting course content. I'll be at the university next year because I have "outgrown" the community college (need upper level physics and mathematics courses), but it was definitely a good way to spend my junior year of high school ;)</p>
<p>well just to help expel the myths, I scored far higher than nearly every student at my high school on the SAT/ACT tests and took all honors classes...had our school weighted GPAs I would have been in the top 10, but our school was stupid as hell, so I was around 100 out of 500 and there were people in all regular courses in the top 20. :(</p>
<p>Many of them are at A&M now, and I've seen their coursework - it is generally no harder, with the exception of some humanities courses that seem to be more essay oriented.</p>
<p>I've gotta say, I see quite a few unintelligent people at my CC (at least they are working towards a goal), but many of the people are quite smart, especially in the higher up math and science courses.</p>
<p>That's an excellent article, thanks for the link. I found myth number four to be especially true in my own transferring experience- 53 of my 64 credits will transfer to Columbia. How bad can the course content of a two-year school be if an Ivy League school is willing to accept so many of its credits?</p>