2007-02-19 01:08:24 · 8 answers · asked by BMW M5 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It depends on your high school. My high school was harder than my undergrad, and I went to a top 40 undergrad. I've taken community colleges for fun for years now. They've always been supremely easy to me, altho I've seen plenty of classmates struggle.
It really depends on what you're comparing. Just realize that community college is generally filled up with kids who didn't do too well in high school (even the adults).
2007-02-20 06:01:04 · answer #1 · answered by Linkin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, despite what some students say.
I have never attended community college, but from my friends that did, when they treated it like high school for adults, they got sub 2.0 gpa's. When they treated it like real college, they were over 3.0. Only trust advise from people that are getting a gpa over a 3.0. Wherever you are going after community college (job interview or transfer university), above a 3.0 is a big difference. Learn from successful people how to do it, and from unsuccessful people how not to do it, and don't listen to people that aren't willing to tell you their level of success, in this case gpa and degree.
Some people will tell you that it is as easy as high school, because them it was, but it isn't for most people. Habits are hard to set and harder to break, so if you go in with the mindset that it will be harder, then you can set the habits of studying, going to class consistently, etc. and if you find that it's easier, you'll still be ok. It will be much more difficult to go in thinking that it will be easy and get in the habit of slacking only to find out that it is tough.
Last, I went from high school straight to a 4-year university. I thought it was going to be like high school and for one semester it was. So I was in the habit of showing up to class sometime, starting 8-page papers a day, or two, ahead of time, and cramming for test. And even though I'm a really smart guy (I don't you'll find a person that knows me that wouldn't agree with my intellectual smarts), I graduated with a 2.7 gpa. Only when I was close to graduating did I start to realize that college is tough and takes work and then begin to do the work. Learn from my mistake, unless you repeat it. Conversely if you take my last semester, when I was starting to wise up, and the 8 classes that I've taken since graduating, all while a full-time employee, I have a 3.69 gpa.
2007-02-19 09:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by Aron K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's easier in the sense that you aren't sitting in classes for 8 hours a day. But a lot of the instructors at community colleges work in regular universities as well, so they will treat students the same way at either school, and teach the same things. It's harder in the sense that you have to set your own time table for studying and getting things accomplished, you don't have someone over you every day making sure you finish your work.
2007-02-19 12:47:18 · answer #3 · answered by Violet777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's less homework. But things move at a faster pace.
1 year of a high school class = 1 semester of Community college.
2007-02-19 09:13:31 · answer #4 · answered by Vegan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For the most part it is progressively harder. If you have taken advanced level high shool classes like calculus, advanced biology, etc then it is very similar except faster. You are expected to learn alot more on you own. Remember you go through a whole book in one semester ( 16 weeks) and you only have class for 150 minutes a week.
you can definetely pick easier classes or choose harder ones. the beauty of college is you can mix up your semesters so you take 3 hard classes, 1 medium, and 1 easy. talk to your advisor about what level of class you should be in. make sure if you do your own scheduling and signup that you choose classes that you are qualified for.
good luck!
2007-02-19 09:20:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Two of my children attended community college when they were in their junior and senior years of high school. They graduated from high school and from the community college at the same time. Their work wasn't more difficult, but it required more time. They were both good students, and they did quite well.
2007-02-19 09:18:02 · answer #6 · answered by brenbon1 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am at one now and while it moves faster I think its EASIER, for the most part, than high school was.
2007-02-19 09:32:24 · answer #7 · answered by butterflygurl085 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i betcha it is easier
2007-02-20 20:18:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋