2007-12-08 15:26:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Community colleges are known to offer more help, smaller classes, and professors who may only have a master's degree. Therefore, their classes will not be as difficult....
Ivy league classes are taught by some of the best in their fields. They are paid a lot of money to teach and they are expected to be very difficult. The old saying, "You get what you pay for" is somewhat true in this, but there are excellent profs at community colleges and there are also profs at Ivy League who have no business in education.
Ivy league schools can cost up to 100000 a year. Whereas, community colleges are less than 5000 normally. If I had to do it all over again, my first 2 years would be a community college, then I would transfer in. I would NOT pay all of that extra money. In most cases, a degree is a degree. You have to prove yourself in the job world. Some people who have a degree from a state school are much better workers than IVY league graduates. They just couldn't afford the IVY schools.
2007-12-08 15:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by getta_gotta_good 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
My sister went to an Ivy League school and I heard that from her all the time - see she was the top student in our family, 4.0 all the way through high school, valedictorian...but I, on the other hand, only had a 3.95 and ranked 4 in a class of 500. So there was no way, according to her, the A's I earned at my small liberal arts school in the west could measure up to her B's and C's at the Ivy League. My sister is very smart and I love her, but I disagreed with her then and I still do.
2007-12-08 15:42:07 · answer #2 · answered by mtgranny 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No it is not true. When schools evaluate your transcripts they look at the course content. If they do not feel that the course matches their course in content then you do not receive the credit for that course and may have to take it over again. Your GPA is your GPA, it is not the grade that transfers, it is the college credit. Example you could earn 40 credits at a community college and have a 3.7 GPA and apply to Yale. Yale may only accept 20 of those credits towards your degree....the rest would be general or elective credit, so you will have to retake some of those courses but you will still have that GPA.
If you really think about it, you will see that it would not make any sense to do that. Most ivy league schools accept transfer students, majority of transfer students come from community colleges....very few transfer from one university to another.
If they viewed grades like that, no transfer student would meet the minimum required GPA to even qualify to have their application looked at by any ivy league school, basically making it pointless to accept transfer students......but they do take transfer students
There would have to be Ivy League community colleges (which I have never heard of) in order for the grades to transfer over fully so that one could qualify for admission.
2007-12-08 15:53:56 · answer #3 · answered by im2spoiled4me 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think this is the wrong comparison to make, because it is not that the courses are identical and the grading differs, but that the rigor of the classes is usually pretty different. Usually, more students get As at Ivy League schools than do at community colleges, but what they are getting the As for is pretty different.
2007-12-08 16:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by neniaf 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't necessarily depend on the school, it depends on the instructor, the content, and most of all, the student.
Unfortunately, there is a stigma attached to community colleges that the courses are not as challenging. However, you really do get out of a class what you put into it.
No matter what, you are getting an education. It is what you do with it that matters most.
2007-12-08 15:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by laskigal 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is true. Community college classes are not the same caliber as classes at an Ivy League school. If this weren't true, people would go to community colleges and pay way less to get the same value out of their educations!
2007-12-08 15:32:20 · answer #6 · answered by Olivia J 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
I wouldn't say that... I would agree that it is easier to get an A at a community college just because of the small class size. With smaller classes you are able to interact with your professor more, thus making it easier to learn the subject matter, and get a good grade.
2007-12-08 15:30:39 · answer #7 · answered by Jim K 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Like a lot of things ... it all depends on your effort ...how extensive the course was ... how good the proff was ..... and if you really understand than the answer would be yes
2007-12-08 15:32:35 · answer #8 · answered by ccseg2006 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
your classes are going to transfer no matter where you got the grade.
2007-12-08 15:34:58 · answer #9 · answered by Snow White 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You get out of education what you put into it.
2007-12-08 15:34:00 · answer #10 · answered by hmmmm 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋