Hi everyone.
Let me Introduce myself and my situation first.
I am from Poland and I will be graduating from high-school this year. I was presented with a great opportunity meaning I got a green card. So I bond my future with studying in US.
I got 2060 on my SAT but unfortunately I wasn’t accepted to Universities of my choice ( Berkeley, UCLA, Uni of Washington). Now my plan B is to go to community college and then transfer to some good university.
Unfortunately I got pretty lost while doing research on CC in the US. There’s not to much information on CC’s that’s helpful.
I want to attend to CC on an east coast.
I would like this discussion to be about community colleges. What colleges in your state provide good education in your opinion? Which CC’s your child went to and had a great experience? Which do you think are simply not worth it?
If you hope to go to a UC campus, I recommend that you go to a California community college which can potentially guarantee you entry into a UC campus.
Otherwise, I suggest that you look for community colleges with dorm systems so that you can have the American residential life experience. Kirkwood College in Cedar Rapids, IA comes pretty close to what you would have at a four-year school.
By the way, there are still good US four-year universities that will accept applications for this fall after May 1. A list called the NACAC list will come out the first week of May.
Hello-I see you applied to UW. It’s getting quite difficult to get in there. But there are several excellent community colleges in the Seattle area with classes that align with UW. It used to be that you were automatically admitted to UW with a “C” average at one of them, but not any longer. However, it is still a path many good students take in order to save money. Take a look at Bellevue College (it is a community college) or Seattle Central College (NOT to be confused with Central WA University). Seattle Central is probably the best and most comprehensive of the CC’s. I personally know several students who went that route and are now at UW doing well. Good luck!
I work at Valencia College in Orlando, FL. We are a community college but dropped the community from our name because we offer a few bachelor degrees in areas of high demand not covered by the state’s university system.
Valencia has won numerous awards including the first Aspen Award for best CC in the nation. Yup, the first winner. We are the best CC in the nation, the Aspen Organization didn’t just hand out the hardware, they studied it for two years accumulating all sorts of data so we earned it.
Most of our grads got to UCF but others go to big name schools and we have an excellent honors program if that is your thing. My son went here and he is now at FSU about to graduate and enter grad school. It is cheap, we have small classes, and we are in Orlando.