Transfering from Community College???

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Hi guys</p>

<p>Im a high school sophomore and Im comtemplating the decision of getting dual enrollment. However, is that a smart thing to do if I want to transfer into Stanford? </p>

<p>So far...
- Get straight A's
- Take honors, AP's and online courses.
- Within the top 10%
- Speak English, Spanish and Latin.
- GPA: 4.1
- FBLA, National Junior Classical League, Latin Honor Society, Political Awareness Comittee.</p>

<p>I know I could either stay in my high school and get all AP's or finish my first two years of college PLUS AP's by the time I graduate... Thing is that since its a community college would that make it harder? Cause I dont know... I mean I guess a transfer from Brown has way more chances of getting in than a transfer of a community college simply because its a community college. But anyway, does anybody know more about this? Would it really matter that its a community college (no prestige)??? Which option would give me more chances?</p>

<p>Thank you SOOOO much for your help!</p>

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<p>DON'T DO IT! Lol...just my personal advice from a CC student. Yeah, you can still have a nice chance (especially with such a good high school record) but Stanford takes very few transfer students. If you want to go to a CC for a year or two, you'll need extremely good reasons for why you did that instead of going for Stanford now.</p>

<p>My advice is, if you can't get into Stanford now, go to the best school that you get into and then try and transfer from there. Stanford particularly accepts very few transfers from CCs, and even then I think the ones that do get in are from nearby CCCs.</p>

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<p>No. What I am thinking of doing is going to community college WHILE still in high school. Like this:</p>

<p>Junior year of high school= first year of college
Senior year of high school= second year of college. </p>

<p>At the SAME time. But like you said, it's still a community college so I dont know if the fact that I do it while doing high school at the same time makes a difference.</p>

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<p>Oh I see...well, I've had friends that took classes at the CC while in high school and then applied to their choice university, but I believe once you've taken 12 hours (correct me if I'm wrong) at a CC or any college (even while you're in high school) you'll be considered a transfer applicant.</p>

<p>But I'm not completely sure. Maybe someone else has input as well.</p>

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<p>From Stanford.edu

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Transfer applicants must have completed at least one full academic year (two semesters or three quarters, excluding summer sessions) prior to their anticipated enrollment at Stanford, and they must be able to present records of at least 26 semester or 39 quarter units of transferable course credit, excluding AP credit and credit awarded by exam.

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<p>"Speak English, Spanish and Latin"</p>

<p>ROFL
You speak Latin?</p>

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<p>I think you are very smart to think about doing this!!!!</p>

<p>Consider these stories:</p>

<p>Using words such as "ashamed" and "appalled" to describe his reaction to the failure rates for students, Microsoft's co-founder called America's high schools broken, flawed and underfunded, and said the system itself is obsolete.</p>

<p><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002191433_gates27m.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002191433_gates27m.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060710/ai_n16524924%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060710/ai_n16524924&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=348256%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=348256&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901779.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901779.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Omg thank you so much!</p>

<p>Reading all those articles and opinions gave me a little more confidence. It's cause there's just so many people saying stuff like: "IB program is prestige blah blah blah" that when you think "community college" I thought it would harm my chances. But apparently, it has helped some people. :) So I guess I will go for it. </p>

<p>And yes, I do speak Latin. :)</p>

<p>Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>I think your plan's ok, I know a cousin who went through hell in high school and got into community college (she had performed miserably in high school.). Then she got a 3.9 gpa and a good sat score and wrote a really nice essay (with help from family) and got into Cornell. If you do all the incredible things you seem capable of, you can transfer anytime.</p>