Am I fucked? I was top 5% in my class, NHS, many organizations and awards from their competitions, employer references, teacher references...I got accepted into Baylor, North Texas, Texas Tech, A&M, and University of Texas. But I didn't get but 4k scholarships so I decided to get shit out of the way at community college where shit is only 3k a semester.

Am I fucked transferring to a good University now? I 've been hearing bad things.

As long as you apply yourself and work hard, you should be fine.

Just make sure not to take too many hours since only so many of them will transfer.

I had to do the community college thing myself. It's alright if you're trying to save money (titution was about $450-500 a semster at the school i attended) but you'll meet some real weirdos.

Just don't slack off because they placed "Community" in front of college, classes are usually more challegening than their University counter-parts.

Not in the least. I knew tons of people who did this at Berkeley. Just make sure you work hard to distinguish yourself from the rest of the lazy community college crowd.


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If you're that good in school, how did you only get $4k in scholarships? Congrats on all your acceptances, though.

And no, community colleges won't fuck you up as long as you don't get too lazy. It's really easy to slack off at a community college, so be careful.

if you where the top 5% of your class, you have no excuses if your not in your CC either..


not all are created equal, find one with the campus you like. meet with someone, have a plan [an idea of where you want to transfer to]. that way things can be skewed to what you'll get credit for, and what transfers over.



have the plan, excute the plan. you probally saved yourself at least 15K

Just don't slack off because they placed "Community" in front of college, classes are usually more challegening than their University counter-parts.

heh, i've heard the exact opposite from my friends who went to community college. then again, they're purposely taking the easiest electives just to get enough credits to get done. i don't think many of them will go the transfer route.

as someone else said, you better be sure you're taking classes that will transfer, or you're just wasting time, money, and effort. plan that shit out, it may not take you 1.5 or 2 years. you could probably do it in one year, plus a summer maybe, then go into a 4 year college and finish in 2.5-3 years.

my school, for all its shit, actually had a really good program going with the local community college, allowing honors students to take high school and college credit courses their senior year. i got a whole year's worth of general credit done, i didn't have to go ot a community college after graduating (would've got my associate of arts degree in one semester, not really worth it). i'm surprised i haven't heard of this kind of program in other places, or at least not on totse.

xilikeeggs0, i'm not quite sure why you got so much money for being such a shitty student in high school. i imagine it is a combination of your mother's low income level and the college you chose to go to, plus the fact you live at home and don't have to worry about paying for housing. i'm sorry, but i'm sick of you acting like it's so easy to get aid money. it sounds perfectly reasonable to me that this guy only got $4k.

Yoh, don't be afraid to take out student loans. pretty much everyone has to do it, unless your parents are dirt poor or dirt rich.

I'm just a good old middle class, white male. I'm sure I would have gotten a bunch load like my mexican friend, who is in fact quite smart. His parents are divorced and his dad doesn't make shit. He got his mom to file her low income and single mother and that bagged him some good financial aid. Got to give him credit though, he scored 210 in PSAT and good SAT scores. However he is lazy as shit lmao.

Will all the shit I did in high school matter and help me be accepted as a transfer student to A&M or UT Austin? I know they have the top 10% rule, but I guess that only applies when fresh out of high school and not transfer students. I worked so hard to get in the top 5% and I don't want that to have been for nothing. I even went to fucking Mexico to help build houses so I could put that on my resume. I was in so many clubs; National Honors Society, officer in Business Professionals of America, FFA for a year and even raised turkeys, basketball team for 4 years, and I did volunteer work at the elementary school my aunt works at. Was all that for nothing, or will they still look at all that?

yoh, i know how it is with lack of financial aid, believe me.

the only way to know for sure if the school you intend to transfer to will consider your high school activities is to ask them outright. i imagine you can still put many volunteer things you did in high school on your resume, especially something big like going to mexico. grades likely won't matter though, they'll be looking at your community college grades. i think it's pretty safe to say you wouldn't have a problem getting into a state school from a community college as long as you had good grades, extracurriculars at community college probably aren't going to be too important here.

That sort of stuff will definitely help you, especially if you can incorporate it into a meaningful essay about how it helped you learn more about humanity and blah blah blah :)


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heh, i've heard the exact opposite from my friends who went to community college. then again, they're purposely taking the easiest electives just to get enough credits to get done. i don't think many of them will go the transfer route.



Some electives are ridiculously easy at some CC's, I actually had friends who took online PE courses.

xilikeeggs0, i'm not quite sure why you got so much money for being such a shitty student in high school. i imagine it is a combination of your mother's low income level and the college you chose to go to, plus the fact you live at home and don't have to worry about paying for housing. i'm sorry, but i'm sick of you acting like it's so easy to get aid money. it sounds perfectly reasonable to me that this guy only got $4k.


He's in the top 5% of his class and only got $4,000 in scholarships. You don't see anything wrong with that? I don't know anyone who got less than $25k in scholarships. Unless he means $4k a semester, there's something he's not telling us.

He's in the top 5% of his class and only got $4,000 in scholarships. You don't see anything wrong with that? I don't know anyone who got less than $25k in scholarships. Unless he means $4k a semester, there's something he's not telling us.

i graduated 3rd in my class and only got about $5k for my first year of studies. only one of my scholarships was guaranteed for four years, at $2,500 a year, 10,000 total. the scholarships i applied for this year, to get next year, are all need based so i likely won't get shit.

Damn.

He's in the top 5% of his class and only got $4,000 in scholarships. You don't see anything wrong with that? I don't know anyone who got less than $25k in scholarships. Unless he means $4k a semester, there's something he's not telling us.

Ya it was 4k a semester, which still left me with 15k per semester(or year, it's still a shit load more than I am paying now). My friend got number one in the class, first year fully paid for, 30k scholarship from Texas Livestock and Rodeo Board, and gets help from his parents =/

Whatever, I don't even know what I want to major in. However, if I don't get accepted as a transfer to any of the schools I want to go to, I will most definately go on a killing rampage, blow some buildings up, and eventually myself cause that means I should have gone there straight out of high school and I fucked up too big this time to fix it.

i graduated 3rd in my class and only got about $5k for my first year of studies. only one of my scholarships was guaranteed for four years, at $2,500 a year, 10,000 total. the scholarships i applied for this year, to get next year, are all need based so i likely won't get shit.

Wait, do you go to a public school? I just thought of that... I go to a private school where tuition alone is over $10,000 a semester, and with a dorm and meal plan, over $14,000 a semester. That could explain the huge difference in our scholarships.

Wait, do you go to a public school? I just thought of that... I go to a private school where tuition alone is over $10,000 a semester, and with a dorm and meal plan, over $14,000 a semester. That could explain the huge difference in our scholarships.

yes, i go to a public school. one of my teachers in high school told us private, more expensive places give out more financial aid...but it all relatively ends up costing the same after aid, private or public, so i see what you're saying. tuition here is about $8,000 a year, and then housing is another $7,000.

yes, i go to a public school. one of my teachers in high school told us private, more expensive places give out more financial aid...but it all relatively ends up costing the same after aid, private or public, so i see what you're saying. tuition here is about $8,000 a year, and then housing is another $7,000.

Ok, it makes sense now. :D