<p>Currently I am a freshman attending SFSU, due to SFSU being impacted, and having over 30,000 students, classes are crowded, hard to get into, and i am planning on graduating in 3 years, i feel as if this college is the wrong fit for me.</p>
<p>I applied to CSUS (Sac State) in 2009 for the Fall 2010 semester, got denied due to the fact that my ACT scores got sent to Sonoma State by mistake (to this day i don't know how this happened). Sac State is always where i've wanted to be.</p>
<p>So what i'm wondering is, would it be unwise to transfer from sfsu to a community college in order to have priority at sac state? </p>
<p>Sac State is also closer to home for me. I just wouldn't want to do something that would jeopardize getting a job in the future. Would transferring from a CSU to a CC and back to a CSU make my transcripts look screwy and potentially have an employer not want to hire me?</p>
<p>Most employers won’t ever ask to see your transcripts. </p>
<p>Make the switch to CC. It is cheaper and it will get you where you want to be (Sac State). Don’t think twice on it – your reasons are sound.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reassurance. I feel almost as if people will look at me as if i “failed” at SFSU, and that going from a CSU to a JC is a down grade…
I just know where i want to be at, i just don’t know the best way to get there…tough it out at SFSU until i have 60 units and can transfer to CSUS for the feeling that “I did it”, or go to a JC, get unit’s faster and easier, be closer to family and boyfriend, and end up at CSUS…
I just don’t know what to do.</p>
<p>Things have changed a lot in the past few years – CCCs are not looked down at as much… but to be fair, the CCCs shouldn’t have been looked down upon in the first place. Many of California’s CCs are quite good and the kids who do well there end up at top schools including Stanford, Santa Clara University, Berkeley and other UCs and CSUs up and down the state just to name a few. CCCs are more and more being seen as functional vehicles to get you where you want to be.</p>
<p>It will be infinitely easier to transfer CCC to your CSU of choice. If Sacramento gets too impacted, you might actually NOT be able to do a SF to Sac transfer because CSU transfers are taken <em>after</em> giving away all the spots to CCC transfer students. The logic behind that is that someone already at a CSU is at a 4 year college and doesn’t have an urgent need to transfer whereas a CCC student <em>needs</em> to get into a 4 year college to continue.</p>
<p>Your immediate friends and family should be able to understand what you are doing strategically (and if not, that’s pretty silly) – and no one else is going to ask or care. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>As long as you plan out all classes you need at CC and do all record keeping with transcripts and such when you’re at CSUS, everything will work out. Most GE classes should transfer over perfectly between CSU and UC. </p>
<p>I think employers will want to see your skills and how your degree reflects your potential, not so much transcripts. 
Good luck</p>
<p>Here’s the little secret that no one likes to talk about – sometimes (and more often than one might suspect) classes at CCCs are better than what are taught at CSUs, UCs or privates. I have taken classes at two different 1st tier private LACs as well as classes at a CCC. Some of the professors at the CCCs were every bit as good, if not better, than ones I had at the LACs. They had PHDs, were passionate lecturers, created thoughtful and challenging syllabi, gave generously of their time, and really taught materials well and engaged the students. Considering that CCCs just offer lower-division credits, this seems like a useful place for someone to get some credits and then transfer to where they want to be.</p>
<p>My son is at Berkeley and reports that his humanities class has 400+ people in a lecture hall. Compare that with a CCC down the road with a classroom of about 25 - 35 students. Put a great professor in that smaller classroom and see the difference. (My son is minimally engaged in his hum. class, and I don’t entirely blame him – it isn’t his major, but one shouldn’t think that the name-tag of Berkeley or any other school reflects ALL aspects of what is really going on…)</p>
<p>Just saying that if you pick classes wisely (use ratemyprofessors dot com to weed out bad professors), you may find the quality of classes very similar to your CSU experiences, and at times, perhaps even better.</p>