<p>I have heard that when you are trying to transfer into a top 50 college that colleges hate students transferring from Community College, I have also heard that many schools in the top 20 just throw away applications from kids attending community college.</p>
<p>um.. no these posts are sooooooo dumb</p>
<p>O meant many top 20 colleges don't accept CC credit which means you have to take the classes again.</p>
<p>Most of the UCs are within top 50 and take CCCs as priority.</p>
<p>ALso, most top schools are hollistic, so they take EVERYTHING into consideration, of course CC wont have an advantage of a 4 year, but they take other things into consideration, meaning they usually dont throw you application away until they see everything, unless your grades are unacceptably low</p>
<p>That is FAR from true, there are people from CC's who get accepted into ivy's.</p>
<p>I think most colleges will take into account that you went to community college. But if your a strong candidate, your a strong candidate.</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill has an articulation agreement (as do all of the state universities in NC) with the community college system and each year accepts at least 100 top community college students from the NC system. So it is a myth about top colleges (and UNC is one) not taking community college students. UNC has a special program that helps cc students transition to the larger university as well. U of Florida is another great university that takes in a very large number of CC students (probably even more than UNC).</p>
<p>I'm from a community college and was accepted to Vanderbilt. That's a top 20 (though barely, number 19). Obviously they didn't throw my application away.</p>
<p>Did you say top 20's don't take CC credit??</p>
<p>i just found out that one of my friend's friend from ohio state comm college got admitted to cornell with 12k scholarship!</p>
<p>You sound frantic!! To address a couple of these issues:</p>
<p>1) Colleges aren't going to just throw your application away. I do think that there is a certain preliminary screening of GPAs. I've noticed on some transfer sites, a college will indicate that you need at least a B average to be competitive. This makes me think that certain colleges may eliminate some people on the basis of GPA alone; however, I'm no expert, just speculating. You pay a fee (or have the fee waived, as the case may be), and college admissions, like many other things, is a commodity. Admissions officers are being paid to fairly assess every application--it's their job!</p>
<p>2) Colleges do NOT hate kids from community colleges. In many cases, it seems that these kids have more professional experience than kids at 4-year schools, because money usually plays a role in deciding to attend a community college in the first place. Often kids who attended 4-year schools had advantages that community college kids did not. </p>
<p>3) DIVERSITY!! I don't just mean in the racial sense... Colleges like to have a group of kids from a variety of backgrounds who have different experiences that they can share at the school. </p>
<p>MagicMan, you posted on a thread I started a few days ago. I began that thread because I've studied at a diverse range of institutions, and was looking for a means of quantifying that mix. </p>
<p>Check out hornet's post. It seems that colleges take a certain # from community colleges, and a certain # from 4-year colleges. Although everyone is competing with everyone else, you're REALLY competing with people who are most like you... For instance, math majors are competing with math majors more than they're competing with English majors. One's GPA is an ingredient in the equation, but if a college has many math-y applicants with 4.0s, and significantly fewer English-y applicants with lower GPAs, the college is going to admit a mixture of both. You're probably competing with other community college kids MORE than 4-year applicants. </p>
<p>I hope this info helps chill some of your anxieties. Others, feel free to argue with me...</p>
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<p>I thought I was the only person who thought this.</p>
<p>lol :)
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<p>My adviser said that eventhough admissions panel see that you are attending a community college, they value your life experience as well. Most freshmen who apply to top 20 schools have no life outside of studying, ECs, and studying(that's what she said). They have no real life experience unlike community college kids who have to pay for their education out of their own pockets. I have classmates who are IB Honors Grads, yet they chose to attend our community college because it is cheaper for them. It makes sense to spend less than 10K for a whole community college experience than to blow over 30K for frat parties and four year college whanots. If you're a strong candidate for admissions, then you're a strong candidate.</p>