<p>I'm looking to possibly transfer to Rice for my Junior and Senior years. I was wondering if anyone had any information about Rice's take on transfers from community colleges. Rice's website mentions that some departments don't take kindly to courses transferred from community colleges. Are cc transfer students usually able to complete their degree without having to stay for any extra semesters because of credits that weren't transferred? I was also curious as to how much weight high school grades carry in a transfer decision. My gpa in high school was around a 3.0, but I've done really well the last two years.</p>
<p>I don't understand why people can't transfer out after one year at their local community colleges. I don't see an evident reason why people have to stay in those school for two years. I mean if you get anything around 3.95-4.0 GPA, you could've just transferred into the university automatically after first-year and start experiencing the on-campus events and diversity. The fact that you are transferring in two years later is not going to help you build your social life since Sophomore year would've been the latest time where you could've made some friends at Rice already.</p>
<p>I can't tell what your college GPA is neither do I see any ECs listed from you. In order for us to determine whether you have a shot at Rice or not, what are your current statistics?</p>
<p>Once you have done two years of College work, high school grades will be useless.</p>
<p>You can obtain your bachelors degree on time only if Rice will kindly offer you credits for the courses that you took at the community college equivalent to one of their's.</p>
<p>I waited to transfer so I could save as much money as possible. Are you saying it's tough to build a social life entering as a Junior?</p>
<p>My gpa is 3.93, and my primary EC is the college democrats club. We've done a lot recently and that has taken up a lot of my time. I'm also a member of Phi Theta Kappa.</p>
<p>It could be very tough because many people have already became friends. That is the thing that actually ****es me off so much when new people come in and old people can't be friends with the new person.</p>
<p>Really, one of the things that attracted me so much to the school was the residential college system. It seemed like they were welcoming communities.</p>
<p>I guess one of the things I'm really trying to get a grip on is whether it seems like community college transfers usually get "kindly" offered enough credits to complete their degree in the next 2 years, or if it seems like they have to stick around a little longer.</p>
<p>I'm fairly certain that Seachai is a high school student, so take his statements with a few grains of salt. I don't really know all that much about transferring from a CC myself, but there are certainly people around Rice who have done so and done well.</p>
<p>Umm, I definitely don't think a junior transfer would be at all ostracized. Rice is indeed a quite social, welcoming place, and I see people socializing out of their main group of friends quite frequently. In fact, that's even more true when it comes to new people, whether that means transfers or prospies or whatever. Finding friends won't be a problem. </p>
<p>I'm not sure about the credit thing. I mean, the cc near my hometown was pretty terrible, and classes from there were not nearly equal those at Rice, so I would completely understand Rice not taking credit from there, if that's the case. I don't know if it's different for each cc, or if they take cc credit at all, or if they take all cc credit. I'm inclined to think that the latter is not the case. Actually, now that I think about it, a good friend of mine here went to a cc for a year and was accepted to Rice, but only as a freshman, not a sophomore. You may be out of luck, unless you want to enter as a freshman, which doesn't seem to be your objective. Best idea would be to call the admissions office and ask.</p>
<p>hey........i transferred to Rice this spring from a communtiy college and must say its like another world here!!! they are not very cooperative with transferring credits from a community college, but they are very generous with the cost of education. Its def a place to be, however, from my experience, its like a whole new level of academic enrichment here.....</p>
<p>btw,,,,i say a fellow martelian.....HELLO!! u don;'t know me cuz i commute.....thats probably the worse part of my rice experience!!</p>
<p>Martel is the place to be.</p>
<p>bilaldar42-
If you don't mind me asking, what was your record like at your community college?
Did you transfer after a year and a half there?
What school did you transfer into?
How's your social life commuting to school?
Are you still able to be a part of Martel?
When you say Rice isn't very cooperative with transferring credits do you mean equivalent credits or TRAN credits?
At my community college I've done a pretty good job getting gen. eds. out of the way, and I'm hoping to transfer as a history major. If I get in, does it seem like I'll I be put in a situation where I'm stuck having to take mostly history courses will very little room for electives?</p>
<p>If anyone else has any input I'd appreciate that too.</p>
<p>I can't answer about Rice, but my husband is a prof at another school, one that is not at the level of Rice and he finds that the coursework done at a CC is not close to what they do at his University. They do not cover as much, nor at the level expected at many top 4 year schools. The qualithy of the students is not as high, so the brighter students looking to save money end up in easier courses, taught at the level of the students there because they were trying to improve their grades to get into a better school.
I would imagine top schools might take some of the outstanding students, but the reason they might not take the credits, is because the courses may not be comparable to what you would take a top school.
My husband finds that when he teaches an upper level course and there are students who took the preliminary courses at his school versus a CC, the CC students are not as prepared for the advanced work.
I always tell people that brighter students should always try to go to schools with other top students so they learn the most they can from the prof's and from the other students and the courses can be taught at a higher, less watered down level.
Of course if money is an issue, there is no question you try to graduate with as little debt as possible, which may mean starting at a CC, but it's not optimal.</p>
<p>I can confirm everything Laura says - I teach at a major state university and the difference in performance between CC transfers and those who were freshmen at our school are obvious. Expectations and content taught at CC are not comparable to those at even middle-tier universities.</p>
<p>lauras50, all of the credits I'm taking at my California Community College are transferable to any UC, including UCLA and Berkeley. Maybe other states' community colleges aren't up to par with California's?</p>
<p>It could be that they just have an agreement. My husband's school will give credit, it's just that the students do not do as well in the next level courses. They even have an agreement with the local CC's to accept their students (nice flow of incoming money!).
Maybe California CC's are better, but you don't really know until you get to the other courses and take them how much extra work you will have to do to keep up. I know many schools will flunk out students and many others have grade inflation and graduate everyone (many taking way over 4 years to graduate). You can't be sure until you're there. You many find that you save money at a CC at first, only to take many more years to graduate in the end.</p>
<p>Did you end up applying and or transferring? Was it better than what you thought it would be: credits, people, class difficulty etc. ?</p>