Is it shameful to attend CC when all your friends graduated from HS and attend 4-year colleges?
Is it shameful to attend CC when all your friends graduated from HS and attend 4-year colleges?
Such an insane question in more ways than one. hope u are trolling. who gives a rats what your friends are doing. be your own person for Christs sake. knock out 2 years of basic courses while accruing no debt and maturing to the point where you might be able to make adult decisions and know more fully what it is you wish to pursue. stop posting on LR and get enrolling at your local juco. come back in two years and ask a more intelligent question
look at the username. It's a troll
run your own race. who cares what anyone else thinks.
if you then care what i think -- a seeming contradiction, no? -- i would say that juco is an inexpensive way to test whether you are college material, do remedial work, and/or keep college costs down. and perhaps compete in sports, depending. which might be a bright approach for someone with weak HS grades and test scores.
that being said, most states will have a variety mix of 4 years which will usually include some hard to get in, a lot in the middle, and then some schools accepting anyone with a pulse. some of the better D3s at some of the conventional popularity sports have a bottom 1/3 <1000 SAT. but they will want tuition or student loans and if you fail out you have debt.
I graduated from high school in 2008 and had a 3.2 GPA. I was a smart, but lazy kid in high school. I lived in the Seattle area. My parents were prepared to support me with 50% of tuition and books wherever I went to school. I did two years at a CC then transferred to UW Seattle to get my bachelors degree.
It ended up working well. I lived at home, worked consistently, and commuted to both CC and UW, all while saving a lot of money. The only rub is the blow to the ego. People talk, they say some not so nice things when you're not around (or even some subtle jabs to your face), but it was a good life learning experience. People don't really care, but it's definitely something people might rip on if they're in the mood.
Ultimately, I'd recommend it if you're independent, value minded, and won't care too much with the social complexities that come with going to CC.
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It's outright shameful that letsrun allows threads like this to perpetuate. I checked the running only read and get stuff like this. The Johnson brothers, Weldon and Robert are absolutely reprehensible human beings and should be locked up in a cage so monkeys can throw crap at them. Appalling. As for the OP, FU each chit and die MFer!
Community College is fine. It doesn't have the same stigma as it used to since college costs $$$
You still get the same 4-year degree once you transfer.
yeah, school costs have gotten insane. like my school now costs maybe 3x what it cost me. i kind of wonder what i'd be able to afford now.
Forget your specific question. Do you have any other choices? Are you choosing community college over your state's flagship public university? Have you been accepted to your state's flagship public university? What about state universities like Portland State or Minnesota State Mankato or East Carolina? I'm not going to say community college is bad. Tell us your decision making process.
What are your goals?
Basic answer: No, it can actually be very respectful.
If you are set on one particular major, make sure you follow the guidelines that you will need. If you have some doubts, community college is the mature answer. Take the basics - English, Math, Intro to Science courses that you will need. Smaller classes - not lecture halls, teachers - not research professors or TA's, better grades. Then transfer to the 4 year school for your actual major.
My son and daughter paid nothing at our state school due to being national merit scholars. They would have had to pay to attend our local community college. Smart students often pay less attending 4 year schools.
Not at all CC getting better education than the craziness going on at Harvard, Stanford, UVA, NYU, and other sleeper cell colleges.
If one of my children came out as CC-bound, I would disown them.
No
I don't know if it is technically considered a community college, but Penn State is an open enrollment public school, and plenty of grads go on to have good careers.
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look at the username. It's a troll
I don’t get it. If the real Hobbs Kessler is taking classes at his local community college while living it up as a pro runner, that seems to be a pretty good life.
No. It’s also perfectly acceptable to skip college all together
Do your time in poor people college for 2 years, go to actual college for 2 more years and then make bank for the rest of your life. How is that shameful?