<p>...before going to UMich to save a ton of money and get better GPA?</p>
<p>I think you should do exactly that.</p>
<p>I think in-Staters should do that for the same reason, although they don’t save as much money as the OoS.</p>
<p>I’m sure they’ll give your opinion the consideration that it deseves.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend WCC for that reason, though if you feel you will get accepted into the university that way and would like to attend none other than University of Michigan then you should put it to consideration.</p>
<p>In staters for sure, for OOSers I would probably recommend a cheap 4 year over an out of state CC. It costs more money to go to a community college outside the county where you have residence, and they’d also have to pay to move. A community college is a good opportunity for an education when you are running out of options or need a stepping stone to get somewhere else, but I don’t see it as being worth all that trouble. I don’t know about admission stats from OOS CCs but I would assume a 4 year might stand a better chance.</p>
<p>If your OOS go to a local community college. There’s no reason to live out of state so you can go to a community college, that’s stupid.</p>
<p>By the way, CC grades don’t transfer (infact, I don’t think grades from other universities transfer either), just the credits, so if you’re doing it for a GPA boost, it won’t work.</p>
<p>There is an advantage in that you only have to do well for two years, you don’t have as long to screw up.</p>
<p>The disadvantage is that if you have a bad semester you’re screwed.</p>
<p>It works out well for me because I have a 3.79 at my community college and they just lump all my grades together to do my law school admissions recalculated gpa, so in that way it’s an advantage. But I’m having a B/B- kind of semester which really screws me given I’ve only got one more to fix it before I apply to law school.</p>
<p>"What? and everyone was silent when i was telling Moricarak about advantage of GPA while i had no idea what i was talking about "</p>
<p>You might be able to misleadingly put a GPA with a combination of Umich and CC grades on a resume when you’re looking for a job, and I think grad schools will want to know your grades from the CC (how much consideration they put into it I don’t know), so if it was in that capacity whatever you said might not have been false. However, it’s not calculated into your Umich GPA.</p>
<p>Going to community college will not help your GPA at all.</p>
<p>And how exactly do you expect to save money? You’ll have to move to Ann Arbor, rent a place, pay all the bills, etc. And NONE of this will help you someday get in-state tuition at Michigan. Why would you spend all that money to go to WCC?</p>
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<p>uh-oh. then i applied to WCC for nothing?</p>
<p>^No it was good u applied b/c even if u don’t have GPA bonus when u transfer that’s just one advantage that’s gone. The other advantages that I listed are still valid:</p>
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<li>u don’t have to work hard in high school, since WCC accepts anyone as long as u graduated high school. In fact, you can skip high school altogether and get a GED, saving urself from countless hours of unproductive grunt work of HS.</li>
<li>u save 10,000s of dollars in tuition</li>
<li>u don’t have to work hard in WCC, since it’s easy to get good GPA (and transfer to UM)</li>
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<p>Probably not that much. Still way cheaper than 4 yr college tuition, right? the moving cost is irrelevant because u have to pay rent either in form of dorm costs or whatnot whatever college u go to.</p>
<p>Even if your GPA is higher (which it probably will be, because you can get a 4.0 with little work at a CC), employers/grad schools will still see that it’s been padded with easy classes from 1-2 years of CC.</p>
<p>And what if you don’t get into U of M? And even if you do get in, regardless of what the OP says, I think people who take this route will do worse at U of M than people who go to U of M from the beginning, and will end with a low GPA and/or major in something easy just to get by (Asian Studies anyone?).</p>
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<p>Sounds about right, but can somebody confirm this?</p>
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<p>Then u could still transfer to MSU probably, and u would have saved a lot of money in tuition.</p>
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<p>This is doubtful until statistical evidence on how well WCC transfers do in UM is shown. Does anybody know this info?</p>
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<p>I disagree with HS being grunt work. A lot of it is, but so much has prepared me both for college and real life. I guess it depends on your HS.</p>
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<p>Not really, like others said, you’d be wasting money moving to WCC (where ever that is…), and during the 2 years at U of M, you could make your self much more competitive for jobs in the future, than if you wasted your time at a CC.</p>
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<p>I just read people below me, the GPA doesn’t even transfer -_- And I, and many others I’m sure, enjoy and are looking forward to studying topics that interest us. So even if everything you said about WCC was true, a lot of people wouldn’t want to waste their time with easy classes at a CC, and would rather take challenging classes at U of M all 4 years.</p>
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<p>WCC is very close to UM on the west side of Ypsilanti.</p>
<p>Like I said, moving costs are irrelevant because you spend that money whatever college you choose to go to (unless you go to a local college where you can commute from home)</p>
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<p>A lot of people would want do as little as possible for the same result.</p>
<p>I think any difference in performance of transfer students from the community colleges is based on the students themselves, not that community colleges make people stupid and lazy or anything. As well, we all have distribution credits we don’t give a damn about (I don’t want to take 6 credits of humanities).</p>
<p>The big advantage is the savings, which is a lot. For in-district students, WCC costs $80/credit hour, while Michigan costs $6200/semester (if you take the max 18 credits it’s $345/credit, if you take 15 it’s $413/credit). </p>
<p>As for being OOS at WCC, it costs just under what it costs to go to EMU instate. There’s no reason to go to an OOS community college, that’s stupid, don’t do it.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a good idea unless it’s a money issue, or if you didn’t get into Michigan out of highschool. Saying that the classes at Michigan are too hard doesn’t say much for the quality of you as a student, and as I mentioned earlier, you can’t use it to pad your GPA.</p>
<p>Yosup, you don’t come from here, so you may not yet realize, but the money saved by going to a community college locally are HUGE for OOS students. Live with your parents and instead of paying $45K/year tuition+room/board pay 3K tuition, no room and board. If you’re on substantial financial aid that’s one thing, but if you’re paying the full thing it’s considerable savings.</p>