Liberal Arts?!?! Frustration

Nervemania
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 08:27:20 +0000

SUNY is the state university system of New York, and they are public colleges. Probably some of your best deals for four year colleges (whether you go for four years or transfer for the last couple of years after community college). Typically if you put in two years at a community college, you don’t need SAT scores – they just want to see your GPA from the community college. You would have to look at the transfer applications for each college to be sure of exactly what they need, though.

You can apply to most any kind of college from a community college, but often a community college has a specific agreement with some nearby four year colleges about accepting community college students into certain majors if they meet a GPA requirement and have certain pre-requisites taken at the community college. That is a pretty good deal, since you then know the criteria you need to meet to get into the four year college. You will want to make a plan about what majors to explore, and understand what agreements your community college has from early in your time there so you can stay on track for those automatic admissions if possible.



Yea, but what if I do my wait a year plan, will my SAT scores (if good) help pull some stuff towards me? Also can I do four years complete after the Community? I honestly didn’t know that, I thought I’d have to do a couple of years, and have to pick my major.

A community college is an inexpensive way to try college and see if it’s for you. If you aren’t academically inclined you may want to think about programs that don’t require a 4 year college degree. If you can define your interests somewhat, your GC may have some suggestions. There are a lot of jobs out there and many of them don’t require a 4 year degree. And a 4 year degree is no guarantee of a good job.

Thank you for the advice, and I definitely will be doing those things anyway, and the Community route sounds like the best one for me. Especially after exploring some discussions on here, and hearing about how people fixed GPA’s way worse than mine through community, and got into way better schools after.