I’m in a catch 22 situation. I want to go to a four year college, but I was previously placed in the remedial track and have a poor academic standing. If I go to a community college, I could improve my grades, but the material they cover is a replacement for high school classes and I’d be precluded from signing up for entry classes at the four year college. This seems like to would put me at a disadvantage when that finally happened and I would only be setting myself up for long term failure.

I’d consider CC if I could “transfer” in as a freshman to a four year, but the colleges I looked into all have rules against applying as a freshman if you have two years worth of credits. When I tried CC, the material was absolutely high school level just with smaller font in the textbooks.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Edit: after reading your post again, I get the feeling that my advice may not be relevant to you. My comment is specifically dealing with my experience as an American.

    I’m not OP, but I’m confused by this edit. Are you seeing that OP is indicating they aren’t an American/in the American academic system? I’m not seeing that anywhere. I agree with what you said and even see pathways OP can take, but if they aren’t in the American academic system, then my advice wouldn’t be helpful either.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I’m not the person you replied to, but I’ve never heard of CC as covering exclusively HS content. I’d guess that’s where the confusion is coming from?

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I think you’ve given me the missing piece of info. OP is still in High School.

        This statement suggested to me OP had already graduated High School but graduated with lower scores:

        “When I tried CC…”

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldOP
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        9 months ago

        The CC classes aren’t called HS material, but the biology class I tried absolutely overlapped with the high school material. I could have probably dropped out as a high school freshman, got a GED and started with CC from there. I probably would have been able to negotiate with transferring as a freshman if my CC years were before I was an adult.

        • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          This isn’t any less true of a “real” college’s Bio 101. They don’t know what you actually covered (or retained) from HS, so intro classes almost always cover the same material for part of the class. That is in no way unique to (or weird of) Community Colleges.

    • mommykink@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I’m just not familiar with any system where community college courses can boost a highschool GPA. I may just be misunderstanding the post though