<p>This year especially many bright outgoing seniors at my school are going to a local community college for two years and then transferring out for financial reasons. </p>
<p>I'm sick of students (and even teachers!) going on about how unintelligent these students are. Plenty of them are in the gifted program and have good grades and high class ranks. </p>
<p>This is partly a rant - my apologies.
What do you guys think of their choice? Does anyone agree with me or am I the only one who thinks like this ...</p>
<p>Well, it’s certainly not a bad decision. They’ll be the ones laughing when they have half the student debt of everyone else when they graduate.</p>
<p>going for financial reasons is GOOD. People just assume that kids who attend CCs are stupid, which for the most part is somewhat true, but many transfer to Universitys after 2 years.</p>
<p>Personally, i would never go to a CC. Simply because i don’t see myself being challenged or comfortable there.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with it. And you can be challenged at a CC if you take advanced classes.</p>
<p>By doing the smart thing to avoid debt, they are proving their intelligence and therefore nobody should say they are stupid for being at a CC</p>
<p>These students get grouped with the kids who go to CC just because their parents are forcing them into an education they don’t want and those students who do CC because it is easier.
I know a handful of graduates from my local CC (ranked 2nd best CC in my state): 4 of them are librarians & tech support specialists who have been working in my school district or the community for 20-30 years. I know 2 others who have transferred to our state school. I know 5 who have dropped out of CC.
My point is that everything is based off of how dedicated and focused a student is on his or her education. It is great to save money, but in my personal situation, I would rather do that by obtaining scholarship :)</p>
<p>CCs do get bad reps.</p>
<p>I’m going to Community College and I as in the top 20! There are even people ranked higher than me going too because our class has 2 years paid for us to go through our local Rotary group. </p>
<p>I live in Kentucky, and CC works a little differently here. There’s a network of community colleges all over the state that the university must accept a certain amount of credits from, by law. I’m only going for a year, though, because not enough classes will transfer for my major.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian isn’t even going to college.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with it. A lot of students do it, and then transfer credits. One of our community colleges has a really good Biotechnology program, better than some colleges. Community cost WAY less anyway, if I don’t get into the schools I wish to go, I’m going to Community college. No biggie.</p>
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<p>This is because they go alongside the kids who weren’t smart enough to get into a 4 year school, and they make up the majority of the community college along with the adults who are going back for their degree. There is nothing wrong with a gifted student choosing to go to community college for financial reasons. </p>
<p>Although it should be taken into account that transfers to 4 year colleges might feel marginalized when they get there. I know at UCLA some of the 4 year students refer to themselves as “true bruins” and shun transfers. Transfers are also missing the (awkward) part of freshman year where nobody knows each other yet the most friends are made.</p>
<p>So if it’s for financial reasons, then by all means one should attend a cc, but if they have the money or the financial aid then there is no excuse not to attend a four year college.</p>