4-year students' attitudes towards transfer students

AtticLights
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:30:23 +0000

Ok…so according to these last couple posts communty college transfer students were slackers that didn’t do anything in high school quote “the dumbest person you ever knew” and then somehow they got into a world class school like UCLA or UCB? This logic makes no sense at all. A high school student can be admitted if they have a low GPA but make up for it in leadership and extracurricular activities, or maybe test scores. But to be admitted as a transfer, you HAVE to have a competitive GPA. There is no way around this and I think most UCs do not even care about your personal statement, just your grades. Honestly I want to know which courses and cccs y’all went to because it was definetly not a breeze for me. Juggling work, science classes, commuting every day? Must be nice to go to school and get straight As with no effort.

edit:// For the record, a lot of the students admitted as freshmen got in because they were prividged enough to. Most students I knew in high school who entered top universities had tutors and took thousand dollar SAT prep courses. Are these individuals more deserving to get a higher education than those who were less fortunate? Almost everyone I’ve met at a ccc went this route to avoid debts, or maybe they were not ready to leave home. Some students had just arrived to the US and had to take numerous ESL classes to catch up to college level reading, others were undocumented students and could not afford to attend a 4 year university right away. Its extremely ignorant to assume that someone transferred from a ccc because they weren’t “smart enough” to get into UCLA from high school. Transfer students have very diverse backgrounds and to erase that and say that they took the “easy route” to college is very insulting and thoughtless.