<p>Truth or Myth?</p>
<p>berkeley accepts cc transfers. use ur logic.</p>
<p>Of course, but UCB takes many of their transfer students from within the state.</p>
<p>what’s ur point? about 90% of berkeley’s junior transfers come from CA community colleges. universities giving preference or priority to instate transfers is a different question.</p>
<p>Berkeley is a special case. That’s my point.</p>
<p>myth. Whoever said this? Show me a source that says that universities and other top universities will not accept you if you take CC courses? Some kids are really smart but cannot afford top notch tuition right away. Some might have personal problems to attend to. In order for a university to diversify the student body, of course they are not going to dismiss CC students</p>
<p>Conventional wisdom is that what school you’re coming from makes relatively little difference.</p>
<p>Most colleges prefer students from community colleges.</p>
<p>It’s not a death sentence, it’s just that you need to look at the overall acceptance rates for transfers into these elite universities. Often times the acceptance rate is lower for transfer students than those applying as freshmens. The type of student that usually apply to transfer into elite universities are probably students coming themselves from elite universities or top 100 schools. When you’re competing against them, a 3.8 from a peer school looks better than a 4.0 from a community college(or at least I would think so). Also a lot of the elite universities(and we’re not talking about berkeley, nor ucla, nor usc) tend to also take into consideration the high school record and stats.</p>
<p>I think a 3.8 from a top ten University or from another Ivy may be better then 4.0 community college. However, a lot of people are not sure about it. The reason people tend to think that 3.8 in Tier 1 school are better than cc is they forgot that people can go to tier 1 usually have better high school record than people go to community college. Just as Liek0806 said a lot of top university look at high school record and stats for transfer student.</p>
<p>While I think it’s largely a myth, some schools do not grant credits for CC course, and one would be at a disadvantage if you’re applying for Transfer at such schools. An example, would be Dartmouth,
“Online course work and courses taken at community colleges are generally not eligible for transfer credit (U.S. military veterans may receive credit for community college course work.)”</p>
<p>I suspect the main thing that works against transfers from four-year universities is the reason for transfer. Most people transfer from a CC because finishing a BS/BA there isn’t an option. The majority of transfers from four year universities are in some way dissatisfied or are doing poorly at their existing school. That probably accounts for the lower acceptance rates of students from the four-year schools.</p>
<p>Of the incoming transfers to Stanford, Penn, Cornell and U of Chicago as well as all of the UC’s which comprise 7 of the top 40 schools in the country last year the highest percentage of them were from community college. So obviously myth, and a stupid one at that.</p>
<p>Every single year our local community college sends transfers to IVY and IVY-equivalent institutions. Stop worrying about this. If a community college is the best place for you to start, start there. Work hard. Get good grades. Take challenging courses. Develop strong relationships with the instructors who will write your letters of recommendation. Take advantage of meaningful on-campus and off-campus opportunities. Meet regularly with the transfer counseling office so that you are on track to apply to the colleges/universities that are interesting to you.</p>
<p>Be the applicant that the college/university you want, wants.</p>