#A guide for choosing Community colleges and University

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gloomy parrot
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  • Location/Region: Definitely USA I'm still choosing states and cities depending on schools, costs, opportunities and safety

  • Major: I'm mainly going for mechanical engineering, (although my teacher suggested me mechatronics but it's a new field so not much freedom choosing) I do have a soft spot for chemistry so material science seems nice too

  • GPA/Test Scores: I'm in between of 3.5- 3.75

  • Curriculum: undecided but I do enjoy learning alone and a bit of project activities

  • Size: Small is better is what I belive for teachers to concentrate on less students so better education

  • Costs: I could do 20k per year that is all included such as living cost and school fees. (I will definitely need aid but idk how for international students)

  • Schools You're Currently Looking At: Michigan tech, Olin University, Texas A&M (if possible, MIT, Stanford and Yale)

  • Additional: I'm an international student from Southeast Asia planning to attend a school in US, and... I'm underage going off alone into the unknown. I do have a plan for community colleges so I do need suggestions on that as well.
    I don't mind much about weather but a balance of hot and cold would be nice.

Overall a welcoming low cost environment with good quality school is enough TT

pastel moat
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Are you trying to do cc -> 4-year?

gloomy parrot
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Yes or I would do 2 year cc and 2 year uni transfer

pastel moat
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for tamu

gloomy parrot
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But the admissions are closed for now I think

pastel moat
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No

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For cc

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?????

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No

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You said 2 year cc

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I thought you were trying to transfer

gloomy parrot
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Tamu got cc?

pastel moat
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No

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texas has ccs

gloomy parrot
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Ah

gloomy parrot
pastel moat
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No

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Just pick whatever has the classes you need, but iirc all of them do

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Texas is republican leaning, whatever that means

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Are you interested in cali at all

gloomy parrot
pastel moat
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Technically it's bis for UCs

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& you can guarantee some UCs

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for engineering

gloomy parrot
pastel moat
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Issue is that it is 160k for

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The last two years yeah

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Texas is a good middle ground i feel

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There's also UIUC

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If you're up for that

gloomy parrot
pastel moat
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I need to clarify that the state kind of locks you into whatever your safety will be

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Like if you go to texas

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Your safety is tamu

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If you go to illinois

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Your safety is UIUC

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This is kind of up to you

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There's also no "feeder" into MIT, Stanford, Yale, etc.

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or hypsm

gloomy parrot
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What about MTU in michigan?

pastel moat
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in general

pastel moat
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Any publics assume community college within their state as a feeder into said publics

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Cali cc feeds into UCs

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Mich cc feeds into Mich privs

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etc.

gloomy parrot
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Oh, so I do need to choose the state and uni I'm aiming for then cc comes second I guess

pastel moat
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All ccs are pretty good

gloomy parrot
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Thank you so much, that encouraged me more after searching out for cc TT

pastel moat
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I dont like the idea of

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People saying "this cc feeds into this SPECIFIC uni"

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when that isnt entirely true

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There are a lot more factors

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How much research have you done in regards to cc

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There is a lot of talk with how community colleges like de anza or diablo valley feed into Berkeley specifically when it isn't entirely true

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It's just that they have higher income and the students tend to be more supported by their families

gloomy parrot
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I see

pastel moat
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Anyway honestly it isn't that deep

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I've taken classes at both "good" and "bad" ccs

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I've had better experiences with "bad" ccs

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Just pick whatever works for you location wise

gloomy parrot
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Then is it entirely true when states and classes matter for engineering?

gloomy parrot
pastel moat
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Pick whatever has the classes you need

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@coarse token hi

gloomy parrot
coarse token
pastel moat
coarse token
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all CS as well

pastel moat
coarse token
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tuition is 70K so kinda

pastel moat
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then bingo, you've proven my point

coarse token
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but it's more on the schools merit

pastel moat
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Is it

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Or is it the opportunites they had

coarse token
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yep, all of them aren't very rich people

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the highschool gives you alot of opportunities

pastel moat
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well then there u go

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the kids did the opportunities

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put in the work

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I see no issue with this

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It's just a school that had good opportunities and they made the most out of it

coarse token
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but when we talk about a feeder school, it's mostly that the school does give you a boost

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and I'm certain in all three cases they do

pastel moat
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Yeah but in the case of cc, this isnt necessarily the case

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People call the aforementioned ccs feeders when it's really daddy's connections that pulls through

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DA is in a high income area where kids had prior connections to stuff

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Same with DVC

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DAC has some of the worst class registration systems to boot since they intentionally butcher class amounts

gloomy parrot
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Occ, santa monica and santa barbara?

pastel moat
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so you cant even get classes even right before welcome day

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Yeah

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I mean again all great schools i just dont think that the high amount of transfers means anything

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SJECCD has the tools necessary for kids to succeed

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Which is also in the bay area

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I'd say their cs program is much better having been in classes at DA and DVC

gloomy parrot
pastel moat
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Bay area costs yeah

pastel moat
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which has traditionally been a factor

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20% transfer from ccs to a 4 year, after all

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You being able to transfer, though likely to be guaranteed, is not the status quo when thinking in a frequentist perspective

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anyway thats my yap

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Just pick whatever state you want to attend uni in

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SJECCD is san jose's district

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traditionally broke asf

gloomy parrot
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Thank you so much tho, I really got a lot more informations than wreaking myself in Google for a week TT

pastel moat
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Lmk and i can help

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Id be more than willing to

gloomy parrot
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Thanks! I'll update You

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Do tell me if I can help in any useful way too!

pastel moat
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Of course!

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