TheIcon

What's with these stupid generalizations that CCs are easier/too easy. I'm an engineering major and it upsets me.

completing

UCSC is a hippie school, seriously.

Along with Riverside, Merced, and etc, they cannot be compared to other schools.... at all!


@GoMiamiDolphins
AP Calculus and Calculus course at community college should be at the same level. It is supposed to be same because they are the freaking same course!

Take a higher math course, and tell me it's easier.

xleper17

My few visits at UCSC left me with the vision of a bunch of Sophomores standing in the woods, smoking certain things and telling me about how the human race is going to be wiped out because we're ruining the environment.


GoMiamaiDolphins -- I have a friend that attends UCSD and I edit her essays for her. I also got her into a medical internship program by helping her write her essays. Essay grade went from a C average to a B+/A-.

So really, it's not that it's always easier. Go and find the hardest teachers. You'll find CC professors that demand perfection and excellence, I've had my fair share of them.

TheIcon -- I know an ME prof at UCLA and he told me that on average, ME transfer students do better than the ME students that have attended UCLA since the beginning. He thinks its because transfer students have more to prove. So clearly, transfer students have the tools, it's just a matter of using them properly.

TheIcon

xleper:
Oh really? That's an eye opener for me. Thanks for sharing.

I also agree there's that "~two more years and I'm done" vibe about transfer students that makes them push harder.

mattn

I'm a little incredulous about CC being graded easier than high school. In high school, if you throw some effort at it, you can get an A. Grade inflation in high school is absurd because people's parents start whining and complaining if their little genius doesn't get an A. In CC it's all on you and there are few to no homework points to buffer your grade. If you keep that in mind, you'll be fine.

beardy

Community college definitely prepares you for the upper level universities. The high school transition is essential, but not overwhelming. Like a stairway, community college is a gradual change in becoming a more productive student. High school is overrated and is completely irrelevant to my experience at a community college. From choosing your professors to finding a flexible schedule, junior colleges prepare you to become a more efficient individual because the emphasis revolves around you, and you only.