<p>lets say that i went to a community college and earned 11 a’s and 5 b’s</p>
<p>taking all basic education requirements, foreign language, calculus, etc and got 3 of my b’s in foreign languages mainly at a community college…and then transferred to a 4 yr college and graduated with cum laude honors, and with a solid score on the gre would it be possible to get into one of these schools trying to get a M.ED or anything?</p>
<p>If you graduated with honors from a reputable 4-year school, I’d see no reason why you wouldn’t be considered by a top-tier master’s program. You’d probably do well to explain in your statement of purpose why you started at a community college, but people do stuff like that for all sorts of reasons. I’d think the fact you graduated with such a high GPA and honors would be of more interest than what you did your first two years.</p>
<p>so if i had like a 3.7 with solid classes and the majority of my b’s coming from foreign language, and then had a 3.75+ in work at a pretty solid private university you think thats competitive enough? i think that the community college will hurt me pretty badly, even though i will have taken a heavy courseload (2 yrs in 1 yrs time) then transferred…what schools would you consider “solid” that are private universities?thanks</p>
<p>i don’t really see how JC can hurt you. my JC experience didn’t really matter for my grad school applications. your record looks pretty solid.</p>
<p>cum laude can apply to any school, if ur GRE’s are like 700+ on each subject, you have a shot.</p>
<p>i know cum laude can be at any school, but i meant in general what would you consider a solid school, and not some joke university…besides the ivy’s,rice,georgetown,etc what would u consider a “solid” school?</p>
<p>Gosh…any school can be solid! A lot of times, it boils down to how you utilized what you had available to you (i.e. courses and research) to get the strongest undergraduate education you could. Don’t get a superiority complex where HYPS are the best schools for any given field. They frankly are not in graduate-level education.</p>
<p>My thermodynamics professor first got her associates degree and then went on to Rice, so it is possible to do it.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as a “solid” school across all disciplines at the graduate level. You really need to decide upon a field that interests you and then explore the pros and cons of different schools that offer that program. Oftentimes a school with a mediocre undergraduate reputation will have a specific grad program that is tops in the field.</p>
<p>For example - the University of IL at Chicago is basically a commuter school for local people in Chicago who couldn’t get into the flagship campus at Champaign-Urbana. But the school has a rather highly-regarded master’s in public health program. I went to high school with a very bright woman who went to the UIC program for her master’s.</p>
<p>You have to look at each program in isolation when making your decision. The schools I’m considering for my master’s bear absolutely no resemblance to the list of schools I checked out for undergrad.</p>
<p>even if harvard yale princeton stanford arent the best for M.ED’s i would still want to go to them because of the name…some of you may flame me or call me an idiot but i think many people would agree it would be awesome to get a master’s from one of those schools</p>
<p>Well, you can forget about Princeton and Yale, because I don’t believe they offer the degree you seek.</p>
<p>hmm maybe there is something else they have to offer that would fit me then</p>
<p>jayhawk303,</p>
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<p>Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, UVA, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern…</p>
<p>The list goes on and on and on…</p>
<p>Interesting, so basically you are getting a degree for the sake of the school name…</p>
<p>Sounds like that to me! Here’s to hoping he/she’ll realize that there is more to education than the ivy league! ;)</p>
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<p>Forgot to add…</p>
<p>Good luck at getting into any graduate school with no direct path in your life. The one thing than every graduate school looks for is students who are fairly certain on their specialty (I’m talking about within a specific field, not broad field itself) and have the capability to do research (if research-based thesis). Without direction, I would doubt admittance to a “wimpy”, “non-solid” school let alone the more “prestigious” ivy league. (all quotes added because I believe you can get a great education anywhere depending on your drive and outlook regarding the world)</p>
<p>well i have a direct path, what im saying is that if they dont have my exact degree i would be willing to compromise and take something that is similar</p>