<p>Does anyone have any experience with their kid attending a residential community college vs entering a 4-yr school as a freshman? If so, what are the advantages/disadvantages?</p>
<p>What about a residential CC vs a non-residential one?</p>
<p>Thanks for any wisdom.</p>
<p>Don’t know anything about residential community colleges, but the year I spent in a CC was one of the best years I ever had in college.</p>
<p>I hated community college and were it not for the financial advantage would not have gone if my life depended on it. I will explain why, but bear in mind this is just my experience and it’s different for everybody…</p>
<p>It was extremely antisocial, even in the clubs, because kids just went to class and went home-- in the clubs people came to work on whatever they were supposed to do but never actually became friends. I was an officer in a club and most of them still didn’t even learn my name. Most of my classmates were extremely immature and clearly not ready to have left high school, and I was so utterly unchallenged it was mind numbing. And, frankly, I was embarrassed that I ended up in the same place as all the drug dealers I went to high school with. Any time I ran into someone from high school elsewhere and they asked me where I went, they would say, “really? I thought you were smart!” Easily two of the worst years of my life, mostly for the social aspects, the rest was icing on the cake.</p>
<p>However, other people have had positive experiences, so I greatly believe it depends on the school-- and probably the expectations of the student. I had a friend who was a 4.0 student in high school who loved our community college, and there WERE students there like her who were very well put together, they weren’t all bad. And for a smart kid that didn’t do well in high school, like me, it can be a godsend. I could have never gotten to Umich otherwise. And it’s probably ideal for kids who aren’t quite ready for college yet, a sort of stepping stone between high school and college. I think for certain students, CC can really work well. It just definitely wasn’t what I was looking for.</p>
<p>I feel like a residential community college would, theoretically, be better in the social department. On the other hand, given the large concentration of maturity stunted individuals at my CC, I’d be concerned that it’d be typical dorm living with all the negative aspects magnified. But I really have no idea, nobody I know has gone to a residential CC.</p>
<p>I didn’t know there were resid commun colleges.</p>
<p>Deep Springs or Santa Monica City College?</p>