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05-22-2009, 11:56 PM
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#31 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009 Location: Chicago suburbs
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Top three CCs in Illinois (in no particular order)
- College of DuPage
- Moraine Valley CC
- Joliet Junior College
I attended Joliet for a year, figured out how to study (because I sure didn't do much in HS), and didn't waste my parents' money. I'm glad to see posts about the value of CCs on this site!
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05-23-2009, 01:01 AM
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#32 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: PA-->NYU 2013!!!!
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Luzerne County Community College! It's all about you!
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05-23-2009, 03:43 PM
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#33 | | Member
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Are any community colleges good in Socal , particularly near Irvine ?
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05-24-2009, 12:35 PM
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#34 | | Junior Member
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Which Georgia Perimeter campus did you attend? Because my experience at Newton was terrrrrrrrible.
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05-24-2009, 03:43 PM
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#35 | | Junior Member
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Are any community colleges good in Socal , particularly near Irvine ?
| A lot of the CCCs are great; Santa Monica is generally considered to be the best. I'm not sure which ones are around Irvine, but if you give me college names, I might know a little about them.
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05-24-2009, 10:49 PM
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#36 | | Member
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Joliet Junior College, which I believe is the oldest community college in the United States. A lot of kids at my school go there, including some that I know of with ACT scores of 30+ and good grades. They even recently built some dorms on campus as well.
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06-14-2009, 02:45 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Virginia - NVCC Manassas
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NOVA! Well, any community college in VA actually. You can do a guaranteed transfer to UVA with an associate's from the VCCS - that kinda says it all, I think. Plus, they have a guaranteed admission with VTech for engineering. I don't know what all those rankings are about; they seem kind of ridiculous to me if indeed they don't take guaranteed transfer opportunities into account. I mean, that's the whole point of community college unless you're doing a trade degree.
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06-17-2009, 12:30 AM
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#38 | | Junior Member
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Santa Monica College is really good, and Glendale Community is awesome as well.
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06-17-2009, 12:48 AM
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#39 | | Senior Member
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Foothill College sends transfers to Berkeley engineering every year. The Foothill Math Dean told me that Berkeley loves the Foothill transfers. The Foothill Math & Physics classes are by no means cakewalks.
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07-03-2009, 05:18 PM
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#40 | | Member
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Irvine Valley college or orange coast college
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07-28-2009, 02:47 AM
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#41 | | New Member
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Everyone on here says DuPage and Joliet Junior College are good ones in Illinois. Is Parkland College in Illinois not that good? They have a Pathway that leads to admission to University of Illinois. I would figure that if a large state university offers such a program then the CC that is part of that program would be a good school. Any info? Also, does anyone know of some type of list that has 4-year institutions and the CCs they have agreements with?
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07-31-2009, 03:29 AM
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#42 | | New Member
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I can't believe nobody mentioned Mt. SAC! (Mt. San Antonio College)
Unless I'm mistaken, it's the biggest community college in America
(definitely the biggest in California)
Academically, they have more than 200 UC/CSU transferrable classes, 82 associate's degrees, and 141 vocational certificates
Athletically, they're the best in California, with top-ten ranked teams in 11 different sports
Oh, and they have agreements with every UC and Cal-State university.
I think their honors program transfer success rate is 98% to get into a UC
SMC is better-known and has more advertisements, but so is Devry, so take that into consideration.
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08-04-2009, 03:42 PM
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#43 | | New Member
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Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) is an awesome CC with guaranteed transfer to UVA.
Also Jill Biden teaches there.
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08-08-2009, 05:06 PM
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#44 | | New Member
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I am a UVA student (finished first year there, going on to the second) who took a summer class at NOVA, and quite frankly it was horrible. I am sure I probably got one of the few bad professors, but my it has given me a really bad opinion of NOVA. One would think the institution would pick a better professor (one with at least a damned phone number to call during the work hours), considering the majority of the students in this summer course were transient students from 4 year colleges, if it wants to uphold its image among them. On top of it, I could not even let NOVA know of my feelings because (it is probably safe to say unsurprisingly by the time I had reached the end of the course), there was no course/professor evaluation form given by the professor (like NOVA representatives said he would give when I asked them multiple times for online evaluations because I had a feeling the professor would not hand out the evaluation form).
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09-17-2009, 10:51 PM
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#45 | | New Member
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Another vote for MtSac, DeAnza and Santa Monica. I know many successful students who attended and transferred from each of them.
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