<p>congratulations everyone!!! i applied for fall and am still in the “we have received” phase, but I applied for fall so they are probably doing summer first since the quarter is starting soon.
<em>waiting…</em></p>
<p>hey everyone…I’ve been lurking this thread for a while and finally decided to say hi. hehe…So I was wondering if you guys knew when the summer and fall quarters start and when decisions for both come out? Are they very late? Thing is I have a couple of schools pending and have to say yes/no soon so…yeah…I don’t want to give that up ya know?</p>
<p>Congrats Sunny!!</p>
<p>nicolles, UW starts pretty late . . . September 29th, I think. I feel your pain, I’ve got some schools clamoring for a response too.</p>
<p>Summer starts June 21</p>
<p>I received my big packet today in the mail 
before actually receiving the little letter. So the unofficial transcript thing worked for me.</p>
<p>Hey sunny wanna become text buddies for UW since we are like on the same schedule? We can even meet up in the residence halls when we move in! :)</p>
<p>Yeah sounds great!! I’ll send you my number in a private message!</p>
<p>Oops, yes, I should’ve specified that it’s FALL quarter that starts at the end of September. :)</p>
<p>I am a transfer student from in-state CC
3.74 gpa but im not very confident about my eassy
I dropped a class before, im afraid that they will reject me…</p>
<p>just got my packet today! no second letter yet but i’m soo grateful!! summer school here i come!!!</p>
<p>TeamTeamwork - yay congratulations!!! :)</p>
<p>mandymandy- heyy it’s all about having a positive attitude! You’ve sent in your application, there’s nothing you can do to change it. So just think optimistically and believe you can get it. And let’s say, hypothetically, you don’t, you can always apply again. No worries! :)</p>
<p>Thank you sunny09!!!
Well, I got accepted by UW Bothell which is my backup!! My major is offered on both Bothell and Seattle!!
Did u apply for Fall, too?</p>
<p>Are you guys happy that you attended a CC first? I graduate next year and am thinking to just go to Bellevue at first instead of straight to UW. It’s much, much cheaper and the classes are smaller.</p>
<p>mandymandy - I applied for Summer :)</p>
<p>Just,
My case is a little bit unique- but I will give you my opinion on the matter. </p>
<p>I started college my junior year of high school through running start. As I approached my senior year I thought I was going to be a nurse and finish the program at my community college. It was because of this that I didn’t complete any language in high school. I graduated with 76 college credits. </p>
<p>I graduated in 09 and took fall quarter off. I went back to my community college in winter once I realized I didn’t want to be a nurse anymore and that instead I wanted to attend a university. I’ve been accepted at UW for summer quarter and I’m graduating from Skagit next month with my AAUCT and 112 credits. </p>
<p>Enough of my background- here is my answer to your question. While attending a community college is a great way to get a cheap education- the atmosphere that you will encounter there can not compete with the university setting. I spent many nights up, crying, while stalking my friends facebook profiles. While my friends were in dorms, meeting new people, and having an overall great time, I was at home in the small town that everyone moved away from. I missed the joy of freshman year. You only get it once- and I had mine at a community college. If I could go back I would have gone to UW right out of high school. I would rather pay off school debts for 20 more years than miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity. You are only young once and you really need to take advantage of it. </p>
<p>That being said- this is only my opinion based on my experiences. If you have any questions feel free to PM me. :)</p>
<p>just4ivaylo—I prefer to attend UW instead of CC once I have a chance! there are a lot of jobs u can find at UW</p>
<p>does any Fall transfers’ status change to “we have reviewed…”???</p>
<p>i actually had a totally different community college experience than aylagator, i’m kinda sad to hear she didn’t like it!</p>
<p>i also started college in running start as a junior (i was 16) at shoreline community college which is where i am transferring from now, maybe it depends on the community college you go to?</p>
<p>first of all, the classes are MUCH cheaper, which I know everyone already knows but that was important to me</p>
<p>community college is like the perfect stepping stone from high school to university, i know a lot of people that go to university straight out of high school and are pretty overwhelmed with the course load and difficulty of the classes, it is so very different from high school because the classes are quite large (can be well over a 100 people!) and it is rare to get any individual attention or interaction with your professors (and sometimes the teachers are actually TA’s who really don’t want to be teaching you in the first place!)</p>
<p>i have met some amazing teacher at my cc, and I am so grateful that they have helped me learn so much and have taken their time to help me when i was struggling. I have a friend who just transferred from cc to the UW and she says it is hard but it would have been much more difficult and she would have been less prepared if she had gone straight from high school, plus she said that most of her classes are curved now (so that a certain percentage of the class must fail), so even if you get A’s on every test, if everyone else does better than you, you will still fail the class! </p>
<p>i guess that is just the system to weed people out, I also got to meet a lot of different people in my classes, with a variety of age-ranges and people with a lot of different experiences. A lot of people i know go back and forth from the UW to cc depending on the class.
I have several teachers now that went to UW but ultimately decided to teach at a community college because they liked actually interacting and talking with their students rather than just running in, lecturing, and running out.</p>
<p>I think that you shouldn’t just choose any school (college or university) without looking at the school itself and choose what is best for you, maybe the experience really does depend on which school you specifically go to. </p>
<p>I do understand that if all of your friends ended up going on to the same university and you were “stuck” at a community college you might feel bad, i definitely felt that when high school graduation came along, and my friends transitioned to UW and I stayed at community college, but then they started complaining about how hard it was and now I am happy that i held off a bit until i got the credits that i could at my cc and now I can transfer and finish up my bachelors!</p>
<p>good luck either way!!!</p>
<p>i also wanted to add that the friends i do have that have stayed in the dorms are moving back home in the fall, it was fun for them when is was a new experience, but they miss the comfort of being home, having their own bathrooms, rooms, showers, laundry machines, kitchens, and privacy!</p>
<p>I entered community college as a nontraditional (older) student and really enjoyed it. I went to an expensive private college years ago, so I have some basis for comparison. </p>
<p>Frankly, most of the CC courses were on par with the private college’s couses academically speaking; in some they were actually better. I had a couple crummy teachers but a lot of great ones. Many of the classes were taught by PhDs who just enjoyed teaching their subject. Small classes, lots of individual attention. </p>
<p>The “party scene” doesn’t really exist because most people commute to CC, then head home at the end of the day. But that doesn’t mean you won’t make friends. I made some great ones–actually, I am closer to them than the people I met years ago at that more elite college. </p>
<p>Now on to the student body. There will be some kids who aren’t academically decidated or who simply struggle with academics. But you’ll also find a lot of very bright kids who want to save money and working people who have to fit in a course here and a course there. One person in my classes was training for the Olympics. There are a lot of nontraditional students . . . 30, 40, even 50 year olds. This is not a disadvantage; the diverse classroom means you get to hear points of view you wouldn’t in a room full of 18 year olds. I proofread a paper for a lady who had lived in an uber-conservative religious group (conservative as in “women aren’t allowed to wear pants or have their own thoughts and they exist to serve men”) who fled from it one night with her two kids; reading her essay and sharing her experience of gradually waking up to the fact that this wasn’t right and getting the courage to leave . . . well, it was humbling. (There are plenty of Running Start and 18 year olds too, so don’t worry about not meeting people in that age group as well. )</p>
<p>College may seem like the most important time of your life, but it’s not worth taking out crazy amounts of loans when you have cheaper options. It’s easy to feel that what you want right now is worth any price, but if you can’t afford a house or a vacation five years after you graduate because you’re paying crazy amounts on your student loans, you will not find any comfort in the fact that you had fun nine years ago. The best time to have fun is always “now”, no matter what age you’re at.</p>
<p>^ very well put!</p>
<p>I would just like to say that I am officially freaking that I haven’t heard back from UW yet, I know it’s still May and they are supposed to let people know June/July but I have already checked the UW course catalog for Fall 2010 and the classes that I want to take are half full already!</p>
<p>I am terrified that I will end up with a crummy teacher or not get into the classes I want to at all because I will get last pick (being a new student if I get in) and I still don’t even know if I got in yet!</p>
<p>Ahhhh, plus there is actually signing up for orientation to be able to sign up for classes, which will take two weeks since I have to send in that payment + paperwork that I have gotten all my immunizations. I know there is always winter quarter but most series start in fall (like Physics 1,2,3 = fall, winter, spring).
: (</p>
<p>just a rant, sorry!</p>
<p>I want to add that going to a CC in a city might be more palatable than going to a CC in a small town . . . In a city there are more things to with friends do once classes are over. Also, I’m not against taking out any loans at all, I’m just saying keep an eye on the total and try to keep them low.</p>
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<p>Wow, that angle hadn’t even occurred to me. I hope I can get into some classes I want–assuming I actually get in, ha ha!</p>
<p>Now I’m kind of wishing I’d applied for summer quarter instead of fall quarter. Oh well . . .</p>