Inferiority complex among community college students - MLIVE
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This is an excellent article on the financial benefits of attending community colleges.
Column: Inferiority complex among community college students disguises schools' value in higher education | MLive.com
At a store this week, a clerk mentioned she was a high school senior and I asked about her plans for the fall. Community college, she said, with more than a hint of apology.
It’s not an unusual response among community college students, who definitely have an inferiority complex among the college-student crowd.
It drives me crazy.
If you ask me, the biggest problem with community college is the image. There’s a perception that community college is for kids who can’t hack a four-year school. And then there’s the reality: Community college offers some real academic and financial advantages, and there is nothing to apologize for.
Column: Inferiority complex among community college students disguises schools' value in higher education | MLive.com
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*blkrtr goes to a community college*
I got my degree my AA with plans to transfer to a university. I totally catch **** for going to community college.
By the way that doesn't mean VT is a poor University
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I took Cisco classes at a community college because it was so close to home. The instructors were friendly and helpful, and the cost was indeed much cheaper than the four-year state university. But I still had to put in the effort to ensure that I got something out of the classes.
In the end, the question is "do you have the competency to do the job that we're interviewing for". The name of whatever college/university you go to should mean little to the interviewer.
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While this is a great outlook to have on the issue, sadly some hiring managers or HR reps DO look at where you got your degree. They may not throw you out because you went to a lesser known school BUT they may choose the guy or gal who graduated from Harvard because the school holds a higher distinction. I am not saying it is right but it is the way of the world. However I like to think in the IT realm above any other career field those same people will look at certs and experience with more relevancy than where a candidate went to school.
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Plus if you wash out at the junior college, you just saved yourself a $20K lesson.
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If you're really thinking you will be irreparably harmed by attending a community college, go to a (still fairly cheap) state school for a couple years and transfer to a "better" school. This is harder since you will have a lower priority than community college students with guaranteed acceptance, but it's still possible (I know many people who did this as well).
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Having Oxford University on your CV will always impress people. You might have left with the worst possible degree and been the biggest waster on campus but you were there. Admission criteria is stringent and just being there gives you access to a range of people that in and of itself is valuable experience any future employer will covet. Similarly you received an Oxbridge education and regardless of how hopeless you may have been academically, the exposure you get in class will change you in ways that make you employable.
If you are looking for senior role with a large organisation the aegis of the University you attended with help you, not least as so many people in senior roles either studied at similar places or like to hang out with people that did so the star dust rubs off.
I was lucky enough to spend 6 weeks doing a piece of work living at Cambridge University in 2005 to complete a degree that was actually awarded by a different University and I can tell you that the aspirations of the people I met were very different from my postgraduate peers from the regular University I was from. Engineers make the world work, but Oxbridge/Ivy League graduates run the world. Having a degree from the best University you can squirrel yourself into will never hurt your chances.
On the flipside this is still a career where you can prosper without high flying academic credentials.
I mostly tested out most CC stuff by taking the CLEP exam. Those classes which a CLEP exam was not available, I took the CC class.
Some CC classes are way better than some 4-year classes.
True statement!!! As crazy as it sounds, my in-law graduated from a college in canada, then took a loan for $80k to attend HBS. I thought he was dumb, but he graduated with a job while in harvard. His bonus last year was my take home salary.
It's kind of like how you don't necessarily get judged on the quality of your high school once you've graduated college. The same can be said for someone who goes to a well-known school for graduate work, if they graduate with a Master's or PhD from a high-profile school no one will really judge them for where they went beforehand to earn their Bachelor's.
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Indeed. That is how I got into a college that had rejected me as a potential Freshman.
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Exactly. I went to a local CC to get my AAS. $80/credit. I could have gone to the local University and pay over $300/credit. The money I save will allow me to go to WGU next year.