Change of residence

katliamom
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:32:36 +0000

Just to be clear, @twosonspa, community colleges are 2-year schools, so they don’t have very many “majors” - a physics student would focus on his/her general education requirements (all the history, literature, etc.) and some very basic prerequisites for the major. After transferring to a 4-year university, that’s when the student would complete all the higher-level courses necessary for the major.

And here I do have to caution you: I’m not sure that a community college would be a good place to begin a major as demanding as physics. A friend’s son dropped out of the major after transferring to UC Berkeley from a community college (where he was a consistent A-student.) He felt he simply did not have the math and physics background, and could not keep up with the classes or other physics students at Berkeley (which has one of the best physics departments in the country.)

Maybe b@r!um can offer some other perspective. The student attended De Anza College, a respected community college in the Bay Area.