loathed

thanks. thats what i thought as well. JC grads are also not considered first time college students right?

yea, i was hoping to start from fresh because i can forsee huge difficulties in transferring what i have learned over. also, its going to ALOT harder when i transfer to a 4 year university after 2 years at a community college.

thanks again!

fiona_

JC grads are considered first-time college students.

serf-

i've always thought that polytechnic students were considered first time university students.

poly = vocational high school

galoisien

No that's more like the ITE.

preciouspurple11

i've always thought that polytechnic students were considered first time university students.

> I believe it is because they graduate with a "diploma" that's why it is considered college experience.

serf-

i don't get the logic (though of course you may be right)
american students, all of them, graduate with 'high school "diplomas"'.

goloisien: they're different branches, admittedly with different levels of prestige, on a parallel track. traditionally, neither of them was supposed to lead to varsity-level education.

loathed

yea, funny sometimes. i agree that both ITE and poly are on a parallel track, just with different level of prestige.

so why then is a JC grad not considered a first time college student? =/

if you take into account...a GCE "O" level cert is roughly equivalent to an american high school diploma, then surely everything after that is considered as college? no? since its all post-secondary education.

galoisien

The O-levels tend to be issued at age 16, and they kind of correspond to the end of sophomore year at an American high school (after which the less well-performing students are free by law to drop out). It could correspond to the "non-AP" part of a high school transcript if you want to think it that way.