<p>LOL I applied to over 20 schools… I am definitely afraid. Good luck and just pray if you believe in God 
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<p>Chaosakita I made a forum account just so I had the opportunity to respond to your misinformed generalization of community colleges. </p>
<p>First and foremost, you are entitled to your own opinion. It appears that you will not have to attend a community college because you have already been admitted to at least one of your safety schools. That’s great news because you hate community college! I could pose a multitude of questions about “why” you hated community college and I am sure that you could respond with a wide variety answers. However, one question I would like to ask is; if you hated community college so much, then why did you continue attending?</p>
<p>Now, onto the misconception of community college and stigma attached.</p>
<p>People of all ages and level of intellect attend community college for an array of different reasons. For some, it’s financial constraints. For others, community college may offer the degree that they desire and have no need to attend a four year institution. </p>
<p>Having dealt with a medical condition throughout high school, community college was my only viable option. Does this make me lazy? Dishonest? Unintelligent? Community college offered me what no four year institution could; practicality. I was aware that in my near future there was a relatively high chance I would be incapable of attending class for an extended period of time. Because of this, even if I were able to enroll at a four year school, I understood that I could be out of a whole lot of money.</p>
<p>Community college gave me an opportunity that I am very grateful for and I have applied for transfer admission at some very prestigious universities next fall. I think that my chances are pretty high and I am certainly in a better position now compared to my senior year in high school. </p>
<p>My community college also has articulation agreements with two Ivy League schools and multiple top 25 universities. Last year alone my college placed transfer students into three Ivies and schools such as NYU, Villanova, Dickinson, Gettysburg, and Bucknell.</p>
<p>Are there unintelligent people here? Yes. Can it be challenging to make friends? Yes. Unfortunately, you’re going to encounter these problems for the rest of your life no matter where you are. At the end of the day community college may not be for you. You may be afforded the opportunity to study at one of the best academic institutions on the planet and if you are, then by all means take advantage of that. However, just because community college is not right for you, does not mean the same for someone else.</p>
<p>The sense of entitlement and elitist tone displayed in your comments is really what irked me. You’ve obviously worked hard thus far in your life and have put yourself in a good position to continue your education at renowned colleges and universities, but you should be grateful for the opportunities you have at your disposal because some of us aren’t so lucky.</p>
<p>I hate threads like this, because when I finally get to a place where I can put all my insecurities away, someone has to make a post about getting rejected everywhere…
Yes, that is my number one fear, and sometimes I have nightmares, because for the past 3 years, I’ve been planning out my life from the perspective of the American college student. But if I somehow fail to get accepted at any of my 20 schools, or accepted but impossible to attend because of insufficient funds, I will **** a ton of bricks.
I still have to option to go to college here, and I’m studying for medicine in case I don’t get in in the US, but still. It would really, really suck to go to school in April and have everyone ask me when I’m leaving and having to say that i got rejected everywhere.</p>
<p>Her tone could have been better, but I am sure hoping that my children get to go to a “regular college” and not a cc… Yes, cc’s serve a purpose. They are currently serving a purpose for us as my boys are doing dual credit. But the caliber of students there… my boys are making straight A’s. As my 14yo boy said, “Mom, I’m not that smart. I just actually do the work!!!” Yes, attending a cc the first two years cuts down the cost, but you miss living in the dorm, making friends and becoming independent. ( Which is particularly important to me since my boys are homeschooled!!!) Then you transfer to a 4 year institution. Most upperclassmen live off campus with the friends they make their freshman and soph years… To me, it would be hard to get involved in campus life at that point. </p>
<p>All of that said, you have several 4 year options. You need to quit getting stressed. Enjoy your senior year !!! You might be rejected at your top schools…but if you go to one of your safety choices it will be what YOU make it. If you start by grumbling that you HAD to go here, then you will be miserable and you might as well go to your cc!!! If you choose to be happy and make the most of it, you will have a great time.</p>
<p>Alisyn, I’m in the same situation, it’s dreadful!
I have some safeties in my country so I won’t apply for any safeties in US, but reeaally I would like to come to US. Anyway, it’s risky and I can’t even imagine what I wouldfeel if I were rejected by all US schools…And you’re right, this moment when people are asking you when you go to US and you must answer something like"well, i didn’t get anywhere" - jeez, just hope none of us will have to manage it ;)</p>
<p>Oh man, I think I’d fail my highschool leaving exams if I would be in that mind state. I applied to Mount Holyoke, which I absolutely love, and the good part is that they have a high admissions’ rate for international students, so I’m really counting on getting in at that one. But other than that, man… I got deferred from harvard scea, which I guess is somewhat better than getting rejected cause I guess they somewhat liked my file. But still, I get stomach aches whenever I think about it. Plus, Brown’s decision comes out on the 23rd of March. Igh</p>
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<p>Wow, congratulations. You can debate on the internet. Wow.</p>
<p>To begin with, I signed up for community college because I felt like I wasn’t taking enough classes this semester. Community college let me have better semester grades with minimal effort, and they prevented my senior grades from looking completely like junk. (I ended up with 5 A’s and 2 B’s instead of 3 A’s and 2 B’s). And yeah, I could’ve withdrawn and got my money back, but by the time I was thinking about it, I would’ve lost some money. Is this an example of sunk value theorem? No, because I ultimately ended up benefiting in the end. (Or so I hope) I think it’s akin to retaking my SAT when I had a decent score. Maybe I could’ve gotten in to a good school without retaking, and I could’ve gone to a debate tournament instead that day. But retaking ultimately improved my score by a lot, even if I had to forgo debate.</p>
<p>Also, going to community college for that semester gave me an interesting story to tell, even if that meant I couldn’t nap for as long as I wanted to on Tuesday nights. :)</p>
<p>Uh oh, going to community college doesn’t make me as stupid as you think it did.</p>
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<p>Yeah, people of all intellects do attend community college. Like the guy who got into MIT but said he couldn’t afford it, so he was going to our ok state flagship instead and going to MIT for graduate school, which he already been admitted to. (Yes, he was already admitted to MIT for graduate school!) Or the guy who chose a regional Christian college because it’s theology department would be more liberal than Vanderbilt’s!</p>
<p>Wait, you mean they might not have been telling the truth? Woah.</p>
<p>I don’t think 100% of the people who attend community college are stupid. Tell me where I denied that people don’t go to community college because of financial reasons. (Although they meant that they probably couldn’t get a decent scholarship anywhere else)</p>
<p>So yeah, there are going to be smart people at community college, when they make up about 45% of all college students. So even 99% of people who went to community college were dumb (which I’m not saying is the case), there would be tens of thousands of smart people left. In fact, one of the smartest people I know goes to community college because of personal reasons, and he actually likes it there.</p>
<p>But in my experience, in a class of about 30 people, the experience was dreadful. NO ONE would speak up. NO ONE. I would be distracted on my iPad, never take notes, and I would be left to answer the teacher’s questions. Ok, it was a bit of a stretch. There was one other person who spoke up - there was an ardently libertarian guy who would continually bring his politics at every opportunity. So I think I learned more about his politics than Geography from that course.</p>
<p>And I had someone who asked me if Romania was a country. So yeah…</p>
<p>I’m not sure how it is like at other places, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was typical of the average community college experience. It’s certainly not something I would like to experience again, unless you think I need to commute an hour for my education. At this point, I might as well commute to a 4-year university.</p>
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<p>Well, good for you! I’m glad you found a good opportunity. But that doesn’t mean it’s good for most people to repeat your experience.</p>
<p>I never called you any of the above things or implied it anywhere, but you can continue to imagine that I do so if that makes you feel better.</p>
<p>I just think that most of the people who attend community college as teenagers are slackers academically-wise, and you can’t disprove my conclusion. I could go into further detail about how I arrived at it if you want.</p>
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<p>That’s great. In fact, that’s more people at Ivy Leagues than from my suburban school. (Although people probably don’t go because of the cost, not because they can’t get in) And I know I won’t be going to an Ivy League for sure.</p>
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<p>But I was originally responding to a post who said that I should consider community college above my 4-year university where I received a full scholarship without considering the implications.</p>
<p>I know making friends is always going to be a problem, but I’m not yet at the point where I can make friends outside of school yet. I think college would help me mature to the point where I can. Maybe it won’t. But what I know now for sure is that as someone who will be 18 after the summer, grown and working adults are still no substitute for friends my age, no matter how hard you insist otherwise. I’m not sure why you keep trying to discredit my experience just because it worked out for you.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I stated it in this thread or another, but I think community college is good for people who need to stay at home, want a specific major, or have financial issues. But parents need to stop automatically suggesting it as a solution for anyone who runs into problems. I doubt that anyone will do it just because someone over the internet says so, but I think going to community college really could unneededly deprive someone of a good experience.</p>
<p>Ignorance is bliss and the grass is always greener. </p>
<p>Good luck in your future endeavors.</p>
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<p>Actually I haven’t worked hard at all, hence whey I’m being rejected everywhere.</p>
<p>I don’t see what’s so elitist to suggest that the college experience at a 4-year university is better than going to CC if someone can afford to. I don’t find it elitist either to rebuff someone’s suggestion to go there simply because I’m a bit anxious without thinking about my situation at all and knowing what going to CC entails.</p>
<p>You’re right, I’m sorry for pushing my opinions onto you.</p>
<p>“And I had someone who asked me if Romania was a country. So yeah…”</p>
<p>Oh, that’s wonderful… I had that happen once. I told them that it was a type of sushi. Aaaaand they believed me.</p>
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<p>I hope you aren’t talking about me. I said, “Also, if you don’t want to go to a safety school, consider the Community College route.” I was under the impression you did not want to go to a safety school from your first post. I’m not a parent, so I’m not sure if some of those parent comments were directed at me. I was lazy, unmotivated, and an idiot in High School so I ended up with around a 3.0. As a result, I could not get into any schools that I wanted to go to so I went the CC route. This is my second and last year at a CC and I’ll be transferring to a UC for fall 2012, like you I don’t know where exactly for a month or two, hopefully Cal or UCSD. Again, I don’t think all your schools have rejected you yet and you probably won’t even have to go to a safety. I didn’t mean to hijack the thread and turn it into a 4 year vs CC so I’ll stop now.</p>
<p>Post #27, your experience at CC is the same as my experience at CC. I usually take these classes there for fun. Friends of D1 who went to CC, one did transfer to UCLA successfully and one got several Ds and went to some unknown college in Idaho. Not all good experience I guess.</p>
<p>Oh yeah… I’m definitely scared! But I got offered a full-ride at my out-of-state safety college, which is pretty well-regarded and is in a huge city, so if I do get rejected everywhere then at least I will have a good option.</p>
<p>If you’ve gotten into Centre and Hendrix you have two very good options. It looks like you applied to a lot of high reach/lottery schools, and with a downward tending GPA, so you may be rejected by all the others. But that won’t be being rejected “everywhere” at all-- it will just mean you have only two good options to choose from, either of which will offer you lots of opportunity. So you have no reason to worry!</p>
<p>I could’ve gotten any of my current acceptances with a lot less stress and worry on my part. It could’ve meant less stress about my grades. It could’ve meant going to more debate tournaments instead of retaking my ACT/SAT again. It could’ve meant not dropping out of Calculus because my parents thought it would affect my GPA too much. I made a lot of sacrifices trying to get into a good school, and I think it’s understandable why I would be upset if none of it came to fruition.</p>
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<p>Same here. The difference for me is “schedule”</p>
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<p>I can absolutely understand how you would be upset if none of your 14 reach schools were to work out. But even in the unlikely event that happens, your last four years would not be “completely thrown in the trash can.” Unless you did pursue all those academically challenging courses and your ECs only for the purpose of getting into a reach school. But you indicate in your original post that that wasn’t the case! I hope you are able to enjoy yourself more (with less stress and worry than you experienced in high school) in the pursuit of your postsecondary education, wherever you end up.</p>
<p>You will get in somewhere. Try not to worry too much - i know it is easy to say, but you will be happy and thriving come next fall!</p>
<p>Oh, I’m so scared! I haven’t applied to any yet, I’m still a junior, but I’m still worried 'cause my stats are not that amazing (they’re not bad, but they look awful compared to a lot I’ve seen here), and let’s just say my dream school is Yale (always has been), and I still wanna try to get in just in case, but I’m so scared I won’t be accepted anywhere else because of my stats :(</p>