Why are High students afraid of going to community college? Discuss!

<p>@nick_sheu:</p>

<p>yes I do but I think I may move college’s in the Fall for various reasons.</p>

<p>btw,sorry if I sounded harsh on my previous post(had a bad day today).Pretty much to sum the thread’s question is HS kids want the college experience:simple as that.Many want the freedom from parents by being away in college.That has been the norm in many countless American movies,which is obviously why many HS aspire to that norm.But that freedom will come at a cost later on with a huge college debt…I do apologize that I did criticize some schools.My personal belief is that UC are really a phenomenol public university system that only a handful of states can equally match.Heck,California is the place to be;the “spot.”</p>

<p>^partly why I went to CC rather than a local college is to have, in some way, the “college experience” of being someplace new while completing my degree (even if I get into Cal which is just across the Bay lol).</p>

<p>CurveDestroyer is pretty much correct in everything, except for that last part: “also, having a lot of community college courses on your transcript does not look very good when you are applying to graduate schools.” This is not true AT ALL. As long as your GRE/GMAT scores are good, you have a good GPA, and you hav good recommendations, it doesn’t matter if you went to a community college, nor does it matter which university you went to, as long as it is accredited and doesn’t have a ridiculously bad reputation.
For example, consider two MIT undergraduates, one who attended straight out of high school, and one who transferred from a community college. Say they both graduate with 3.75 GPA’s, similar GRE/GMAT scores, and great recommendations. The community college credits would have no bearing whatsoever on the second student’s grad school application.</p>