| I agree. I don't think CC students are less capable, especially after two years of CC. That, and like SevMom said, some just can't afford tuition, even IS. But, honestly, the change from CC to UVA is big, and to engineering...well, I can't imagine. My second year e-school classes are very rigid and are geared towards preparing me for third year, upper-level engineering classes. Balancing an e-school schedule and overall college life is sometimes very difficult, and by coming in for third and fourth years, there's little room for mistakes for CC transfers. And frankly, I took diff-EQ at NOVA over the summer, which is normally a pretty darn hard e-school class. I breezed through it with an A. I'm not trying to put down CCs overall, I know they work just as hard and often have outside factors that make them incredible people. But, this is an extremely difficult program, and I think the e-school is setting themselves up for a long road.
I think they should have considered making this less of a solid agreement, and geared it more towards second year transferring. |