Community College Degree Just As Good as Cornell Degree?

[LazyKid]

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Nope. We’re talking about nursing, right? Cornell doesn’t even offer nursing, whereas students from a community college RN program are going to have more specific coursework and experience in the profession.

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<p>The issue isn’t specific to nursing; the issue is with the assertions that the value of a community college education equals that of an Ivy.</p>

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“Those folks?”

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<p>Those who assert that community college students are not necessarily academic inferiors to Ivy students.</p>

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Yes, I went to community college after high school. So did my father. Actually, he was a high school dropout - now he has a paleontology Ph.D from Berkeley, by way of LA Valley College.</p>

<p>If you think community college is a roadblock or only for the incapable, you’re simply wrong.

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<p>I am honestly surprised that you are actually trying to argue this. I am not sure if you studied Statistics, but you learn that when you make comparisons, you ignore outliers in your samples, or at least don’t regard the outliers as the norm representatives of the sample in question.</p>

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If you think community college is a roadblock or only for the incapable, you’re simply wrong. It wasn’t the right path for you, cool beans. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be the right path for some people.

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<p>No one is arguing this. The issue is with those folks who compare and contrast community colleges with Ivies.</p>