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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Community college is free in California. Many, many intelligent kids opt there first because it makes sense and has guaranteed transfer programs.

But really, I don't know anyone who's been shut out of all UCs and CSUs they applied to.[/quote]

Does CA have academically more-rigorous community colleges to accommodate those high performing students? [/quote]

DP. I don’t think students look for academic rigor there. They want to get their As and transfer to a decent school[/quote]

Californian here. This is false. They want academic rigor because these kids generally want to hit the ground running at Cal or UCLA. [/quote]

So many people assume your school has to be brutally rigorous for you to learn. There are many factors involved, and in my experience of studying & teaching at 14 colleges is that a lot of what passes for rigor is unnecessary ball-busting that doesn’t improve the amount of learning. It’s possible to learn more at super-rigorous schools, but it’s not the absolute slam dunk people think it is. [/quote]

Yes, but at a practical level the kids hoping to transfer to UCLA or Cal do not want to be unprepared. That’s why they cluster in some of the feeder community colleges.

There are a lot of excellent students who deliberately choose CC to up their chances of Cal or UCLA. [/quote]

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