Summer classes at community college

aleaiactaest
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:12:58 +0000

What matters to Stanford and to other top-level universities is not the game of accumulating “credit” so as to truncate the college experience (Stanford in particular seems to dislike this mindset) but rather the joy a student experiences and the passion a student develops when he or she indulges an intellectual interest. Stanford is far more concerned with the substance of a student’s intellectual pursuits (i.e., what he/she gained from his/her experiences taking classes) than it is with the sheer number of credits a student accumulates. Having said these things, taking classes at a CC is absolutely no problem and is an excellent thing to do if the classes relate to a subject in which a student is deeply interested.