Moving from CSU to CC

killmyentourage
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:55:57 +0000

@lemaitre

You always seem to post after me and mention the budget cuts. Although we all know that classes have been cut, it’s really not as difficult as you make it sound to get classes. It will not take you years to get into a single chem class and CCs tend to have more lectures (& even more labs) for the first classes (like Calc 1 or Gen Chem 1) and then they reduce the size and number as you enter more difficult courses (Linear Algebra or Ochem 2). I started from my CC at the very bottom and it took me 3 years to finish (by choice not becuase I couldn’t get into classes). Students ALWAYS have the option of taking classes at a different community college.

Maybe things are different and worse wherever you live, but in most of Orange County at least, we don’t have THAT many issues with people getting in classes. At most, you might have to wait til the next semester. I’ve never heard of a single person not being able to get a math/science class the next semester if they couldn’t get it the first. If this is continuously an issue in your area, maybe you should start suggesting that people look for other community colleges if they find that their local one is too full. And classes like Calc can be taken at a ton of schools online. Coastline Community College NEVER has full classes even and all their math is UC transferable. For example, when I took Calc 2, there were only 20 people in a 40 person class. This semester there is a comparable amount.