I want to become a dietitian, and I was planning on doing the University of Alabama’s online Bachelor degree.
They recommend taking courses from a Community College before attending, and I could get a lot of my course load done at a school called Barton Community College (In Kansas) online.
Here’s the thing, I’m not sure if this is a good idea or not. I live in California and I want my credits to be transferable to a more prestigious school like UC Berkley or UCLA if I decide I don’t like online college, or at least to a local community college.
I’m also wondering if getting a degree online could hold me back from getting into a prestigious university for Post-Graduate or Med School, even if I have the GPA.
Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks!
Why don’t you take online courses from a California community college and then transfer to a UC? That’s what I did. The UCs are completely fine with online courses from California community colleges. In fact they won’t even know whether they were taken online or not because it doesn’t say so on your transcript. Grad schools won’t know either. I don’t know if that will be the case for the community college you’re considering. Plus if you take courses from an out of state school it will make it much harder to get into a UC.
If you live in CA and want to transfer to a UC, you really ought to be taking classes through a CA CC. They are dirt cheap, nearly everywhere and offer on-line options for many of their core courses. Most importantly, they have transfer agreements with UCs, you loose fewer units and are the ‘preferred’ source for UC transfer students.
I feel i wouldnt learn as much by taking a online course… Taking the actual course all the way!