Why is there such a stigma associated with attending a community college when it's only temporary?
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Anonymous
But the R1s have better chemists who can cook better party drugs. |
Anonymous
No. We don't want them infecting our spaces or stealing jobs. Just tax them. |
Anonymous
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I went from NOVA to VCU to career decades ago, as did my sister and two cousins. All of us have careers and raise families in the area - similar to what people who didn't go to CC do.
I don't care about the stigma. I don't hang out with those people anyway. I like what I do and at the end of the day, what someone else think about CC matters to me about as much as a fly buzzing around on the other side of town. As far as drugs, you're kidding yourself if you don't think there's any in the freshman dorms of any university. |
Anonymous
| Because it’s cheap or free and therefore available and accessible and no status to show off. |
Anonymous
Too easy. Make them serve the students they think they’re too good for or pay tuition for a kid to be excused. What they’ll find at community college is normal kids working harder than they could imagine. |
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| I saw both of my sisters fail out of 4 year colleges after freshman/sophomore year and come back and do CC, then a local 4 year. I think for some kids it's probably the smartest choice! |
Anonymous
Yep. Most community college graduates have a license in their field of study and are ready to work at their trade. But if they decide later to pursue a bachelors degree they have a lot of transferable credits. |
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I don’t really understand the stigma. If you are in the cohort that does two years and then transfers into a four year university, who would ever know? Your future employer wouldn’t know. Your graduate school is going to only care about your overall gpa , grades in your major and consider you no differently than others that started as freshman.
If you are planning to be a tradesperson or health technician and want a two year AA and certification, this would be the goal anyway. A BA in English from a low or mid ranked 4 year college isn’t going to help you get a job requiring skills and specific certifications. If you want to become a teacher, therapist, nurse, accountant, paralegal, own a small business, go into the arts, non profit work or any of the numerous fields that don’t pay high salaries why wouldn’t you save two years of tuition? |
Anonymous
When you’re low income and get pell grant and federal loans, you sign up for random classes and each semester and you’ll receive thousands of dollars via a financial aid refund check. After the surplus aid is dispersed to you, you quit showing up to class. You do this until you max out pell and/or federal loan borrowing limits. Community colleges are full of unmotivated and functionally illiterate who do not give a lick about school. |
Anonymous
Go volunteer with low income folks then come back and apologize for this ignorant drivel. |
Anonymous
+1 I’ve taught in CC and at a FCPS full of kids headed to T20 schools. Some of my CC students would blow the T20 kids out of the water, and they do it without the resources. You people are terrible. |
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For me, it depends on the person. For my super social, can thrive any where niece, I recommended CC. For my cousin who has enough in her 529 for in state and 2 years room and board, I suggested the flag ship with the first two years on campus.
Once you graduate, it won't matter, but the environment and growth on the path to graduation has impact and matters. |
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I took a couple classes as an adult at NOVA after already having a 4 year degree at both Annandale and Alexandria campuses.
As a parent, I wouldn’t allow my child to attend NOVA but we did look at some other 2 year community colleges besides NOVA that had slightly better outcomes and a more traditional full time student population. The classes are not on par with a 4 yr college classes. The classes at the 100 level were what you would expect at the high school level. By the 3rd week at least half the class had stopped showing up. Talking to those in the class a lot of them worked and just choose work over school. And then some were really struggling bc English was not their first language I think very few students are going full time and focusing solely on school. |
Anonymous
I think OP should have framed thread question differently and not assumed a stigma. Posters responded with negative stereotypes. |
Anonymous
You don't let mom and dad handle the "advice"? |