<p>It’s definitely NOT strict. I know lots of kids who took a couple and did just fine. But my assumption is that they did fine despite taking a (small) penalty for doing CC courses.</p>
<p>Oh okay, I’ll ask around then. I thought maybe even one infraction was a heinous offense to law admissions, for which the penalty would be disproportionately large. So at worst the penalty, if there is one, is small and barely noticeable.</p>
<p>Off to bed. Thanks for the help, mike. All your posts are appreciated.</p>
<p>If you take no more than a few, it probably doesn’t look that bad, but any more without any good reason (besides GPA padding) might look bad.</p>
<p>Blue, thanks for the response. You said earlier that it’d be wiser to take classes at your alumni school after you graduate, but how is that so when we’re done?</p>
<p>Also, I want to expand this further and relate cc classes to another point. Say, for example, you’re gpa is less-than-stellar after you graduate. Then one day you decide you want to do business school, and want to get into a top one. If, as a liberal arts/social science major during your college years, you didn’t take any economics, statistics, math courses, but then some years after college you enroll in cc and take nothing but those classes, and excel very well in them, will that show top business schools that you’ve <em>personally</em> prepared yourself to handle the rigor of business school? In other words, would creating this ‘alternative transcript,’ assuming you do well, do any justice to somewhat counterbalance the record of your undergrad gpa? </p>
<p>Thanks.,</p>