Any drawbacks to taking classes at multiple colleges regarding out of state transfer decisions? Even if the colleges are in the same university system?
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you will need to keep track of more than one CC transcript for the rest of your life. Every time you apply for transfer or to grad school oe for a job that requires copies of all of your transcripts you will have to contact all of the CCs. Yup, 30 years from now you could be sitting there wondering if you did indeed get all of your umpteen transcripts sent.
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it may be a bit more challenging to verify if you have indeed fulfilled all of the transfe requirements
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it may be a bit more challenging to develop the strong relationships with your department and instructors that you will need for recommendations
All that said, many students do take classes at several CCs because of scheduling difficulties at their main CC or because of different course offerings at the vaious CCs that they can get to easily. If it workds out best for you to do that, just take care to keep your paperwork straight, and remembe that you can only use federal finanicael aid at one CC at a time.
Taking sequenced courses (e.g. math, physics) at the same CC, or within a group of CCs that share the same course catalog, may help in avoiding duplication of topics or missing topics due to the material not being organized the same way in different CCs.
However, some students may have to attend different CCs in order to cover all of the courses needed since no single CC covers all of them.
You do realize that out-of-state public universities are unlikely to offer good financial aid, right?
yes you make some very good points here, and in line with what I was thinking, Would an out of state college take a look at my transcripts from two schools and get annoyed?
No, they do not get annoyed. It’s more a question of figuring out what courses transfer and are not duplicated. However, this happens more than you might expect and university academic affairs offices know how to deal with it.