Enrollment in Two Different CCs--Good or Bad Idea?

SDGoldenBear
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:28:35 +0000

It’s similar to the freshman admissions concept that the adcoms cannot penalize an applicant for not having a rigorous schedule if his/her HS only offers limited rigorous courses in the first place.

For example on how it could hurt you:

John is attending CCC “A” as linguistics hopeful. CCC “A” does not offer two of the major prerequisites but nearby CCC “B” does.

If John only attends CCC “A”, he will not have all the major prerequisites completed since the two courses are not offered. In this scenario John won’t be penalized in admissions since it’s not his fault the courses were not available and it’s unreasonable to require him to travel to CCC “B” to take the course.

However if John takes a course at CCC “B” along with his primary campus CCC “A”, he loses the excuse that his major prereqs were “not available” at CCC “A” and he would be penalized in the event he applies without his prerequisites completed. Essentially the more campuses you attend, the more opportunities you are expected to meet should it be required.

I believe there is an actual distance required to make use of the “course not offered” rationale, but it’s likely a “soft” rule and it logically can’t be more than 6-8 miles from your home address.