I am a science professor at CCNY, and I cannot stress enough how poor City College is especially in science related areas. First of all, one should not look at catalogs, course descriptions, or course notes to evaluate CCNY. CCNY is known for giving students good grades even though they have not learned any of the course material. For instance, CCNY, through their grade inflation stances, has forced me to give students about 60% on tests when they did not answer a single question even partially correctly!!! Oh. The neighborhoods around CCNY are very dangerous, and people at CCNY often get mugged at night. Since CCNY is also a cheap school, the buildings and classrooms at CCNY are overcrowded and in disrepair. The only reason most of the students are able to find a seat in the overcrowded classrooms is that except when there is a test, many of the students are completely absent from class.
jrod9400. I am unsure if you will be able to get into CCNY (for some reason CCNY is quite selective even though the students there are exceedingly poor possibly because only poor students apply to go there), but if you do not make it to CCNY perhaps you can spend the first couple years (or your first year) at a community college and then transfer over.