UC Davis waitlist... Questions about community college?

dicehead
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:33:40 +0000

Current Community College Student who has TAG with UC Davis.
I think community college is an awesome choice. I personally returned to school at 21 for mechanical engineer.
Since then I have complete 96 units(all transferable) and spent about 4600 on my education while living at my parents house. The first two years are general courses and really are meant to weed people out. Of course you need to work hard and understand what is going on, but once you transfer I would imagine you will get much more specialized. One look at UC Davis curriculum shows me this.

Also I started as mechanical and my time at MSJC allowed me to take up programming and I switched to electrical engineering. I state this because we go into education wanting something but end up with something else. At this point I spent a fraction of the cost to discover what I want rather than the amount I would have spent at a CSU or UC.

In addition, the tag programs guarantee admission if you have certain GPA. Davis was a 3.4 for electrical engineering. Also people claim getting classes is hard, but all you have to do its get priority. I got mine from honors, didn’t even finish the program but I any class I wanted.