Why is there such a stigma associated with attending a community college when it's only temporary?

[Anonymous]

After 2 years, most community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.

[Anonymous]

Because it is assumed the CC kids flunked or nearly flunked most of their classes in HS and so were unable to secure college spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After 2 years, most community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.

First start with your premise. First of all most do not end up transferring. A lot of the degrees offered at community colleges are terminal degrees.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if "most" actually do move on to a 4 year school. Associated with kids that struggled in HS and need to improve grades. I would also assume that a significant population also attends for financial reasons. I think you know why people would down play a community college and just wanted to start a thread.

[Anonymous]

Well...

I dropped out of a flagship after two semesters and attended community college. Turned out it was where the druggies went, and they certainly weren't there temporarily. I reapplied to said flagship after a semester away and got the hell out of Dopeville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After 2 years, most community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.

Well, that is where you are wrong. Right out of the gate.

[Anonymous]

The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

[Anonymous]

I went to community college for five years and didn't transfer and never felt any stigma, and that's WITH coming from a family where I'm the only one without a grad school degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to community college for five years and didn't transfer and never felt any stigma, and that's WITH coming from a family where I'm the only one without a grad school degree.

Five years?! That can't have been full time. Did you earn your associates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The average community college is full of dregs of society; felons, registered sex offenders, drug addicts, kids who finished in the very bottom of their public high school, and many who never even graduated from high school. Anyone can sign up for community college courses; 80-90% are just there to waste their time and steal financial aid refunds.

Why would you put your teen, in the prime of their life, in such a setting? How is that an inspiring, competitive, or uplifting ethos?

You going to be thrilled when your gullible son comes home and tells you his new girlfriend is some tatted up stripper he met in sociology 101? Or your daughter tells you her new boyfriend is some drug dealer she met in the community college cafeteria?

Honestly, this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 2 years, most community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.

First start with your premise. First of all most do not end up transferring. A lot of the degrees offered at community colleges are terminal degrees.

Maybe 10% of community college students ever finish a four-year bachelor's degree. This idea community colleges are full of savvy smart kids taking cheap courses before they transfer to the state flagship is an absurd internet message board fabrication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 2 years, most community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.

First start with your premise. First of all most do not end up transferring. A lot of the degrees offered at community colleges are terminal degrees.

Maybe 10% of community college students ever finish a four-year bachelor's degree. This idea community colleges are full of savvy smart kids taking cheap courses before they transfer to the state flagship is an absurd internet message board fabrication.

I agree with you, but I'd be curious to see hard stats. Do you have them?

[Anonymous]

Have you ever interacted with an RN who got her degree from the local community college? They are the "intellectual" cream of the crop of your local community college. And, sorry, if we're being blunt, they are generally dumber than a box of rocks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 2 years, most community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.

First start with your premise. First of all most do not end up transferring. A lot of the degrees offered at community colleges are terminal degrees.

Maybe 10% of community college students ever finish a four-year bachelor's degree. This idea community colleges are full of savvy smart kids taking cheap courses before they transfer to the state flagship is an absurd internet message board fabrication.

I agree with you, but I'd be curious to see hard stats. Do you have them?

I'm not your gofer. Just poke around government scorecard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to community college for five years and didn't transfer and never felt any stigma, and that's WITH coming from a family where I'm the only one without a grad school degree.

Five years?! That can't have been full time. Did you earn your associates?

Of course it wasn't full time. Yes, I did.