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Originally Posted by tnff
Yes, EDS is correct. The key point isn't that a university won't accept CC credits. The question is whether those credits will apply toward a specific degree program. Esp when you are talking high end science and engineering programs. It's not like you take two years of Gen Eds in CC and then start your major in Junior year. In those programs you start your major day one of freshman year with weed out courses.
After you finish CC, you are still going to have to go back and take those weed out courses. That's why many schools that do have transfer agreement into engineering school have 2+3 program because it's going to take at least 5 to 5 1/2 years to complete the 4 year program.
And yes, in these fields, the better R1s and R2s do carry a greater career advantage than Local State Tech Community College.
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I never denied that the classes must meet their criteria, my point was that it doesn’t matter if you took those classes at Rutgers or Camden county college the only thing that matters is whether the class meets their criteria. It makes no difference where you took a class that doesn’t or does fit their criteria. I have never seen a college that states that even if a class meets the requirements, they won’t accept it if it’s from a community college which is what that poster was stating.
And as I stated before, you do not have to guess all of this information is available. You can find out before you register for your classes at community college, whether that class will be accepted by the schools you want to transfer to. I was to able to do this part of the criteria of 3 different colleges 25 years ago, it is even easier to do it now that everything is online.
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