<p>So I was checking out Shasta College and on their home page they say:</p>
<p>Transfer students from Sierra College do better academically than students who began as freshman at those same universities. </p>
<p>No stipulations, no fine print. I always assumed that transfer students, especially to the top UCs and USC, had lower gpas than freshman admits. Nothing against us transfer students or anything, but I thought since it's generally harder to get in as a freshman the freshman admits would be of a higher academic caliber. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>They're just saying that community colleges prepare students for the big leagues, i.e., 4-year institutions. Consequently, they are able to adjust more easily.</p>
<p>There are two kinds of people who go to CCCs: Those who slacked off in high school and will end up either dropping out(of the CCC), taking up a trade, or going to some purely "party" school.</p>
<p>And those who either slacked off in high school and are now applying themselves, those who are going through CCC for financial reasons, and those who due to some extenuating circumstance were unable to apply straight out of highschool.</p>
<p>This is why universities do so much to include competent transfer students. They have proven themselves in a "college" environment, they know what they want, and they have the maturity that comes along with it. Transfer students make universities look good.</p>
<p>i agree with posc. at any ccc youll see basically two types of people: (a) the people that know what they want to do, where they want to transfer to, and work their @$$es off to transfer out quickly and (b) those who dont give a d@mn, slack off, and transfer to some crappy@$$ school after like 10 yrs at a ccc......</p>
<p>That is really spot on PosC is saying. Also: I think that at a lot of the better community colleges you will find A LOT of people who were not given a chance early on in life for whatever reason but that are not trying to turn it around and prove to the world that they can do it. That's determination and intelligence that you won't see from many people coming straight out of high school.</p>
<p>O’ Yeah i have heard from numerous sources that Sierra college Math department is no joke and is more difficult or as difficult as UC and CSU. I wouldnt recommend wasting you time and effort at that JC once you made “that” decision that you are goin for a degree.</p>
<p>The statistic is actually based on the GPAs of graduating seniors. CC Transfers tend to perform as well as or slightly better than students who began their careers at UCs. This stat is slightly flawed as CC Transfers only have 4 semesters of grades counting towards their cumulative UC GPAs. UC students who attended since their freshman year have 8 semesters to contend with. But it does show that Transfer students are as qualified in Upper-Division coursework as their 4-year counterparts.</p>