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Community college is a joke and shouldn't preclude entering a 4year as a Freshman.
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There's easy classes and hard classes.
I took "swimnastics" at a real university, I assure you it was not difficult. If you wanted a harder class you should have taken a harder class.
And absolutely nothing is stopping someone from not transferring credits over. Hell, some people have done it from one university to another because they want a perfect GPA for their next level degree.
If you're trying to go to Harvard law and have a shot, but something fucks up your first semester, it's not unheard of.
I don't want to transfer credits. I want to re-earn a GPA at a CC and start over a 4 year. My high school decided I was a low preforming student and stuck me in the remedial classes to forget about.
Then do really well on the first year on those "easy" classes and transfer your 4.0?
I don't understand what your problem is with community college
It's depressing and the material doesn't compare to freshman classes at a 4 year. My credits would be the same, but I would be at an educational disadvantage. I can't enroll in a 4 year, but I am able to take edX courses. Comparing the two, a CC class is just rehashed high school material with smaller font. An edX course is actually build with the assumption that you would be using the knowledge to do something. The difference is bigger then the difference between remedial HS classes and regular HS classes.
I did 12 years of compulsory school at a remedial level. Every success meant the program worked and every failure meant the program was necessary. The moment I became a legal adult with agency, the free school option ended. I know what "Cs get degrees" feels like and I don't want to do that anymore.
Last time I checked you do not have to transfer your credits. You go to community college for two years. Get the knowledge. Then choose a regular college apply and go there just don't transfer your credits. Now you are going in as a freshman.
Wtf wouldn't you transfer credits if you could?
That's just a dumb waste of money and time.
He wants to be a freshman again. It's a way to make him be a freshman. Not saying it's a good idea, not sure why you'd want to be a freshman again either though
Every place I looked had a freshman requirement be less then two years at a CC and I haven't found a way to purge bad classes. Every time I research this, people say it's considered fraud to not fully list courses completed in applications.
You retake them and get a good grade. That's the way.
I failed Calc 2, retook it and got a B. That's quite literally the way to purge them.
I need to speak to an actual college rep on that one. When I completed a shitty high school class, there was no option to redo it.
you are literally Hitler
Yup definitely talk to the college, but he is right that is how you purge a bad grade.
Then you need to catch up...
Nope, each state is different but most are to early 20s, you didn't have to leave if you were remedial.
Just nothing you say lines up, so I don't think I'm gonna be able to help
Technically, the school is only required to provide a free education to people under the age of 18 and who didn't already have a diploma, but are free to make their own judgements on adults without a diploma. In fact, many states view GEDs as a legally distinct document and do not preclude students from having one.
Regardless of whether or not the school can enroll adults or not, doesn't effect what classes they can take. If I had completed remedial Geometry for instance, I wouldn't be allowed to take it at a more advanced level the next year even if I had available time to do it.
I was actually in school at 19, but that didn't help be get into the better classes when they can just lie and say the class is full. Curious that I was the only one that they ever told the room was full for. Also curious that when I tried to bypass their permission by testing into Honors, they could only tell me that I didn't pass and not actually show me the test results.
Then we are in agreement that remedial classes are a joke. I just don't want that "catching up" to replace freshman at a 4year.