How much harder is Uni than CC?

College Search & Selection Community Colleges
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<p>A little more than a year ago I decided to go to the local CC instead of a uni after high school because they offered me a free ride for getting in the 90+ percentile on the ACT or something like that. Anyway I have been really paranoid since the start of this year that I might not be prepared for uni level courses because of something a friend said. I have been searching the internet and cannot find a good testimony from someone who graduated from my CC about how the workload was different than the uni. I was hoping maybe one of you wise CCers would know a source that could be used to relatively compare how relatively difficult my CC is compared to other schools. I have been using ratemyprofessor to compare my profs to the uni profs and my profs all have higher difficulty ratings (usually ~1.5) than the comparative ratings of the profs at the uni I was going to attend (but this may be slanted data since the CC student submissions may be from worse students than the uni).</p>

<p>I have no ambitions of going to med school or law school. I am planning to get my CLS degree ASAP and get a job as soon as I can. Currently have a 3.65 GPA. Study probably 10 hours in a normal week excluding actual homework. Study 8-12 hours before a zoo/orgo test on a weekend unless its stats where I only study like 2-3.</p>

<p>My CC is Sauk Valley Community College, Illinois</p>

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<p>This is complete anecdotal, but some one on here said that the effort you put at a CC class to get an A, will equal a C at a UC.</p>

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<p>On Monday, go pay a visit to the Transfer Advisor, and to the person who is in charge of scholarships at your CC. Get the names and contact information of people who have held your scholarship in previous years, and ask those students. They will be able to speak much more directly to your possible experience than any of us can.</p>

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<p>My first week at Cal Poly Pomona I learned probably 4x as much already than I did at community college.</p>

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<p>I’ve heard from past high school students that now go to my local CC that it’s very easy, that the classes are like regular to low-honors high school classes.</p>

<p>Conversely, my high school’s alumni who are now at universities say that it’s like having all AP classes (hard ones, too, not Enviro or Stats), but that the material is rewarding enough to make it well worth the effort.</p>