<p>Look, sometimes common sense is just common sense. While it might make sense that the best cc students may do better than hs students from the worst public high schools, cc students just can’t compare to the high school student application pool (at least of Cornell) when gpas are equal. We all know people who go to ccs- unless they really can’t afford a state school, they’re just lower in caliber. The people i know who go to ccs are the partiers of high school/ kids with low scores/grades who get rejected from state schools and continue to party it up in cc (this is far from a singular case). This is the de facto norm. Of course, to debate this further I would have to try pretty darn hard to pull up some rarely searched-for source that relates to this topic - but this is because people just don’t really question this fact that qualified hs kids just don’t list ccs among their choices when there are schools that give need based aid and when are state schools. You can argue that every top ccer is one of those kids that are really poor and can’t even afford a state school and just don’t have good enough credentials to get any merit scholarships at a state school. But then this already says something about those students, and this is also obviously not the case. </p>
<p>Anyways I was just trying to show that this was nonsense. Obviously this means something more to you for you to argue it so fervently… arguing for your self worth perhaps? We wouldn’t be having this argument if you thought that you would have a chance comparable to that of other high school students and aren’t headed for cc. Look there is no value to proving ur worth here. Do it in the real world, because people have preconceptions about cc students and they are generally correct. If you are just saying that I can’t prove that they aren’t comparable to the cornell applicant pool of hs students, I can’t, but neither can you prove that they are. </p>
<p>As i said, I would be fine with the entire thing if they simply make scores a part of the transfer application to the contract colleges, simple as that - because that is the only real edge that they have (admission chances are largely based on sat -not considered for such transfers- and gpa -not really hard to get a good one in a cc-) and because of that advantage and the fact that transferring takes quite a bit of weight off high school performance, quite a number of people abuse it as the “backdoor way in” which bothers me .</p>