<p>Hello/</p>
<p>I am accepted to SUNY Binghamton and CUNY Brooklyn in NY, but think that it is worth going to Glendale or De Anza Community college.</p>
<p>My GPA is 3.6</p>
<p>DO you think it is wise to start from community college eventhough you are accepted to 1 tier Public University</p>
<p>If your intent is to transfer to a UC, it’s always best to go the community college route if you didn’t get in straight out of high school. California community colleges have articulation agreements with UCs that ensure almost all of their courses directly transfer over for credit and satisfy equivalent courses at a UC, the same isn’t the case for out-of-state (OOS) universities. So it’s often the case that if you transfer from an OOS not of all of your units will transfer over, which can be a problem when satisfying pre-reqs, GE/IGETC requirements, or meeting the 60 unit requirement. In addition, the way the higher education system has been set up in California is to make it easy to matriculate CC students from two year colleges into four year universities. This means that as UC transfers, California community college students have priority consideration over CSU students, other UC students, OOS students and international students trying to transfer to a UC. Statistically over the whole UC system, transfers from California CCs have a much higher transfer acceptance rate than any other group. Because of that it would be extremely disadvantagous to try to leave the state to a four year university with the intent to transfer back into a UC. Not to mention, if you’re already a California resident, it’d be much cheaper to attend a California CC for 2 years rather than paying OOS tuition in New York for 2 years. Regardless, even if money isn’t an option there’s a clear disadvantage for OOS transfers and the best, easiest way of transferring is from a California CC. If you’re already an OOS student in New York, it would be wise to come to California to attend a CC for two years as you’ll be considered as a California CC student for admission and give you higher priority and a better chance of getting in when you apply to transfer. </p>
<p>Glendale is a pretty good CC, I’ve attended classes there and they have a great science department, especially Biology/ OChem. I’ve also had plenty of great social science and English professors as well, so I’d definitely recommend going there if it’s an option. If you’re a hardworking, motivated student I’m sure you’ll find GCC to be a great CC to satisfy your lower division courses/GE courses at. I’ve also heard a lot of positive things about De Anza, it seems like there are many of their students here on these forums and that they had have a pretty successful transfer rate. I don’t think you could go wrong going to either of those CCs for two years, working hard, and then transferring to the UC of your choice.</p>