<p>I need to know if this is possible. I'm considering going to a community college to expand my college options. Right now I can get into a few decent schools, but I really want to go to NYU. I know I could transfer in at some point during college, but I really want the 4 year college experience at one school. So if I go to a community college and do great there, then do some volunteer work, get a job, the whole works will I be able to get in?</p>
<p>What are your HS stats? They and your SAT scores will still matter. And if you go to a CC, you will be applying as a transfer, not as a freshman.</p>
<p>Some community colleges have strong records of transferring students into colleges like NYU. However, you will need to have an exemplary academic record, and excellent letters of recommendation from your professors at the community college.</p>
<p>Make an appointment with the transfer counselors at the community college that you are thinking of attending, and talk to them about your specific goals. They should be able to advise you.</p>
<p>if you have a strong high school record, you’ll be able to transfer in as little as a year or three semester at another school. </p>
<p>that’s what i did. i was in an accelerated honors class in HS, had a high GPA and was involved in all sorts of music related ECs. i applied ED and didn’t get in. then i went to a CC and stayed there for three semester and transferred for spring of my sophomore year. i was also a research intern for a non-profit organization, and i held a job, and i played a varsity sport and i was student music teacher in my spare time.</p>
<p>to be honest, i don’t understand why you would go to a community college just because you want to go to NYU. you CAN go to a private or state university and still transfer to NYU. it sounds like you want the “four year experience” which a community college will not give you.</p>
<p>There is also a lot to consider if money is an issue. NYU is an incredibly expensive school and there isn’t always a lot of money available for transfer students. If you can go to a 4-year college now do it, because the chances of transferring into NYU are slim and you’ll probably be horribly in debt.</p>
<p>If you transfer to a 4-year university (like NYU) from community college you will not be coming in as a freshman and therefore will not get the “full 4-year college experience”. Using community college as an attempt to hedge your bets and get into a better college than you would as a freshman is an incredibly risky strategy and likely to backfire anyway. If you don’t want to go to community college for more practical reasons I’d suggest going to a 4-year university off the bat and applying as a transfer if you decide to later on.</p>
<p>Actually, if you are not careful you can get both the community college experience and the “full 4-year college experience.” Not all community college credits are transferable to 4-year schools, some CC credits are transferable to some 4-year schools but not to others. Several students from our local area recently found out that up to one year’s worth of CC courses would not receive credit at the 4-year schools they transferred to, and those colleges were not just elite private ones.</p>
<p>1) Acceptance rates for the elite schools are significantly lower for transfers than they are for freshmen.</p>
<p>2) Overall, there is much less financial aid available to transfers. </p>
<p>3) There is no magical formula to get into a competitive school.</p>
<p>4) People transfer from four year schools too.</p>
<p>5) Dream big, but it’s entirely possible to be happy at a school that isn’t your original dream school.</p>
<p>So if I went to junior college, I could not go to any schools as a freshman?</p>
<p>each school has different definitions of “transfer”, so you would have to look at each school’s website.</p>
<p>Colleges define a transfer student slightly differently, but generally if you’ve had some college from an accredited institution post high school you would apply as a transfer student. If some credits didn’t transfer from your old college, you could, in theory, have freshman standing, but you still would be considered a transfer in the admissions process.</p>
<p>i did not read what anyone else told you, but my advice, if you have the money, you have the grades, go to the school you want to go to, if you want to save money, go to CC but honestly you LITERALLY get one fourth of the college experience then everyone else, because while everyone is hanging out and meeting people freshmen and sophomore year you are at home, but jr and sr year when everyone else is studying and their is the occasional party, thats what you will participate in, not to say you wont make friends jr and sr year at all do not get me wrong, it is still awesome, i am just saying, freshmen and sophomore year bonds are made, dorms are lived in, food and secrets are shared (yeah from the secrets part you can tell im a girl) but i am saying jr and sr year everyone buckles down, its still the college experience but a completely different one</p>
<p>I’m also thinking about getting my emt cert during this summer before applying it would be a semester in a cc what would that mean for applying, will it help me get into a better school?</p>