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There's easy classes and hard classes.
I took "swimnastics" at a real university, I assure you it was not difficult. If you wanted a harder class you should have taken a harder class.
And absolutely nothing is stopping someone from not transferring credits over. Hell, some people have done it from one university to another because they want a perfect GPA for their next level degree.
If you're trying to go to Harvard law and have a shot, but something fucks up your first semester, it's not unheard of.
And absolutely nothing is stopping someone from not transferring credits over. Hell, some people have done it from one university to another because they want a perfect GPA for their next level degree.
I don't want to transfer credits. I want to re-earn a GPA at a CC and start over a 4 year. My high school decided I was a low preforming student and stuck me in the remedial classes to forget about.
Then do really well on the first year on those "easy" classes and transfer your 4.0?
I don't understand what your problem is with community college
It's depressing and the material doesn't compare to freshman classes at a 4 year. My credits would be the same, but I would be at an educational disadvantage. I can't enroll in a 4 year, but I am able to take edX courses. Comparing the two, a CC class is just rehashed high school material with smaller font. An edX course is actually build with the assumption that you would be using the knowledge to do something. The difference is bigger then the difference between remedial HS classes and regular HS classes.
I don’t understand what your problem is with community college
I did 12 years of compulsory school at a remedial level. Every success meant the program worked and every failure meant the program was necessary. The moment I became a legal adult with agency, the free school option ended. I know what "Cs get degrees" feels like and I don't want to do that anymore.
Last time I checked you do not have to transfer your credits. You go to community college for two years. Get the knowledge. Then choose a regular college apply and go there just don't transfer your credits. Now you are going in as a freshman.
Wtf wouldn't you transfer credits if you could?
That's just a dumb waste of money and time.
He wants to be a freshman again. It's a way to make him be a freshman. Not saying it's a good idea, not sure why you'd want to be a freshman again either though
Every place I looked had a freshman requirement be less then two years at a CC and I haven't found a way to purge bad classes. Every time I research this, people say it's considered fraud to not fully list courses completed in applications.
I did 12 years of compulsory school at a remedial level
Then you need to catch up...
The moment I became a legal adult with agency
Nope, each state is different but most are to early 20s, you didn't have to leave if you were remedial.
Just nothing you say lines up, so I don't think I'm gonna be able to help
Technically, the school is only required to provide a free education to people under the age of 18 and who didn't already have a diploma, but are free to make their own judgements on adults without a diploma. In fact, many states view GEDs as a legally distinct document and do not preclude students from having one.
Regardless of whether or not the school can enroll adults or not, doesn't effect what classes they can take. If I had completed remedial Geometry for instance, I wouldn't be allowed to take it at a more advanced level the next year even if I had available time to do it.
I was actually in school at 19, but that didn't help be get into the better classes when they can just lie and say the class is full. Curious that I was the only one that they ever told the room was full for. Also curious that when I tried to bypass their permission by testing into Honors, they could only tell me that I didn't pass and not actually show me the test results.
Then you need to catch up…
Then we are in agreement that remedial classes are a joke. I just don't want that "catching up" to replace freshman at a 4year.
In many CCs, the degree-track classes you take are going to be the same ones that you take at a 4-year school, because the schools are going to fall under the accreditation board. The big difference is that CCs tend to have more certificate programs, and two-year degree programs
The CC art classes were far harder than many of the art classes that I took in art school. Art school cares more about concept than just execution (outside of the commercial arts classes, where you need to be very technically proficient). I've seen plenty of e.g. painters with very mediocre technique that got rave reviews from professors in art school because they had a very compelling concept and approach, even though the execution was flawed. CC though? It was all about foundational techniques. If your technique sucked, you got a shitty grade, because there's no 'concept' when you're reproducing a still life that the teacher set up in the middle of the room. (I would post one of the self-portraits I did in a freshman CC class to give an example of what I mean by technique, but I'm way too identifiable to do that, even though it's been 20 years.)
My CC calc classes? Just as hard as four year. CC physics? Yup.
This is not really unpopular, cc is looked down upon by most people
Not so sure about that.
Hmm. I have a degree from a CC and make good money and learned plenty. Your degree opens more doors and gets more interviews. It's not true for every single degree, but it is mostly true. And it saves on undergrad in bigger colleges.
I went to a university that thinks of itself as prestigious - though not a US one. The teaching and the course were a bucketful of shite. All it really had was decent libraries. There was the odd smart person, but they all did mostly research and were hardly involved in teaching.
Admittedly, I chose a stupid subject that I now know to be useless, but the university shuld have known that and not offered the course in the first place. It was a massive waste of my time. Fortunately for me our Government covered most of the fees - but that just makes it a waste of other peoples money.
The whole thing seemed largely to be a badging excercise for a bunch of posh cunts.
Community college is a joke. So are all the other types. Most of the stuff they make you do only serves to waste your time and get you used to working long hours on stupid bullshit. That's what employers want them to do. Non-community colleges are like that but worse. In my experience, at community colleges only around 1 in 4 classes is impossible without cheating or being a hyper intelligent academic athlete (but of those 1 in 4 classes, they don't always have very strong anti cheating defenses). At normal colleges its usually even more unfair and unreasonable than that. I'd say only 25% to 50% of them were "unreasonably difficult" except they were extra strategic about it. They'd make it so classes with high fail rates were only taught by the same professor and no one else ever so there was no way you'd ever get around one you couldn't pass at first.