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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Not Op, but thanks to poster 1:03 whose child had recent experience with cc classes.  Are there stats available to see the success rate of CC students at VA colleges? Will all credits transfer? Are students prepared for actual college classes?  I live in another state and CC classes can be lowere level and not all classes transfer ( wasted money).[/b][/quote]

!:03 back.  You're welcome.  It was an awful experience. DC wanted to quit after week two but she knew it was important to get the science course done, with an A and on her transcript before senior year college applications went it.  [i]The college Chem course was also supposed to prepare DC for the SAT II [/i]Chem. test.  DC got the A (only after she challenged grading on some of her exams - the prof. had graded the tests in hap-hazard fashion) but the teaching was not reflected on her performance on the SAT II chem test.  All in all a waste of time and a miserable summer.  To be fair, the prof. had a horrible rate-my-professor rating but it was the only chem. course offered that summer within sensible driving distance.  No, it did not prepare her for the SAT II chem test, college chem. or anything else, but she did have a college course with an A on her transcript when applying.  Yes, the credits were accepted by a flagship university but not the grade! Lesson learned? Believe Rate-my-professor.com.[/quote]

Yikes! Who have you that advice? [b]Did you DC take high school chem? [/b]If so, a generic prep book would have sufficed for the SAT2.[/quote]

Of course!  She had finished high school chem first or second year so needed a refresher.  She took the college-level course and had the books and outside tutoring.  Score still wasn't high enough for the Ivy she wanted.[/quote]
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If she needed tutoringand still scored low, it wasn’t the teacher. It was probably the student not being academically ready.[/quote][/b]

It's not that she scored low, it's that she didn't get 800 on the SAT II subject matter tests.  More in the 750s.  Ivies want to see 800s on at least two subject matter II tests.[/quote]

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