<p>I'm not saying it is a bad thing (i'm going to a ccc) but why are they more community college friendly than other top schools? (Columbia,UPEnn, yale,Northwestern, and other top schools)</p>
<p>Apparently there’s someone in admissions at S that feels that they get enough fresh-out-of-HS high achievers during fr admissions, and are interested in taking some students that took a different path during transfer admissions. </p>
<p>As a CC transfer myself, although not to S; and the parent of a kid who transfered to one of the less open minded schools you listed, I really admire them for taking that approach.</p>
<p>Class outreach…? It must be pretty shocking for the working class kid who just studied a lot for two years to end up in Big Stanford</p>
<p>Actually, the majority of top schools are community college friendly. </p>
<p>The ones that aren’t (e.g. Harvard) are typically that way because of institutional elitism and a culture among faculty and students that it’s unfair for a student to have 2 years of grades from a ‘lesser’ school, community college or otherwise, and graduate with the same degree as everyone else. </p>
<p>Others (e.g. Columbia) don’t want any transfers beyond 1 yr because they feel their core to be too important and unique to waive any significant portion, thus working against the 2 yr CC student (probably safe to chock that up to elitism as well). </p>
<p>Moreover, it works against CC students sometimes when a school (e.g., Amherst, Cornell) has articulation agreements with only certain community colleges, thus hurting the student from the wrong region. </p>
<p>And finally, it should also be considered these top schools have extremely low transfer acceptance rates, so when they expect quite a lot from community college applicants. (E.g. A 3.6 student from a fellow ivy might get an acceptance if something else in the app was amazing. Whereas a 3.6 community college app would make the admissions officers wonder why it is the GPA couldn’t have been higher at a community college with an easy curve.)</p>
<p>All of it is so relative though, and clearly admissions people care about far more than simply what school you’re transferring from. There’s so much that can affect your application more than that, so it’s best to concentrate on those aspects of your application when weighing your options–rather than a school’s perceived receptiveness to whatever school you’re coming from.</p>
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<p>That doesn’t account for programs like Ys Eli Whitney and Columbia GS, in which NT students study and earn the same degree as those in the main college.</p>
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<p>While the track record of who a college accepts should not be the ONLY factor considered in making a college list, it is A factor that should be considered in order to have a realistic evaluation of safety/match/reach schools.</p>
<p>Any attempt to tie those two schools to my point is a huge stretch. In columbia’s school of GS the students take the same classes as traditional undergrads. And anyway, doesn’t Harvard’s (the schools I actually mentioned in my point) extension school not offer degrees?</p>
<p>eg. stands for ‘example’, of which H is one. Do you not think that Y and C are also examples of top schools that don’t accept many CC students?</p>
<p>Your point was that these schools don’t accept CC students because they think it is:</p>
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<p>I simply stated that Y & C both have programs for NTs to attend and that they earn degrees identical to those who entered as fr. How is that a stretch?</p>
<p>I’m not sure if taking a couple of CC grads per year can be deemed CC friendly. And those I’ve know to make it in as transfers had high HS stats (especially scores), they’re not the ones who went to CCs for remediation.</p>
<p>While not adequately expressed in the title, the OP is referring to S as transfer friendly relative to peer schools like H & Y. I have personal information about the relative lack of CC transfers to Y, and from reports here and elsewhere, it appears that S admits considerably more CC/NT transfers.</p>