Respect from someone who has $250,000 in undergrad debt and didn’t end up getting the median salary from my school! Definitely limiting my career options after law school as I can’t go full price to a T14.
I work with pre-law students/alums the U of M* and I can say with 100% certainty that being a transfer student does NOT impact admissions to even the most selective of law schools - I think almost 80-90% of the applicants i'm working with have transfer credit, whether it's from PSEO or as an actual transfer student. There also are a lot of discussions in law school admissions about how to encourage community college students to think about law school as an option more, and to make the admissions process more accessible, so attending a community college to start certainly wouldn't be viewed as a negative at all.
The biggest thing I wish was talked about more is that ALL OF THESE GRADES COUNT for grad school admissions, pretty much across the board! (But absolutely they do for law school - they recalculate the GPA so that every single college level grade, including classes that are repeated, counts equally) Don't take that class as a junior in HS unless you are ready to do well in it, and if you are at all in doubt?? Just keep going on with your HS classes.
*Views posted here do not represent my employer :)
YES- when I worked at my last community college, I encountered more than a few students who were shocked to discover that failing or getting a D in their PSEO class resulted in then getting put on academic warning or suspension at the community college and could impact their ability to get admitted to college as a degree seeking student later on.
I've been a STEM faculty at a local community college for 16 years and can attest that our graduates literally go everywhere! A serious joy of my job is getting asked to write recommendation letters for previous students and getting to keep up with where they head when they leave my classroom. One my earliest students transferred to St Thomas after getting his AA degree from us, and then went on to a geoscience graduate program at Berkley. I eventually got to write him a (successful) recommendation letter for a National Science Foundation Fellowship and I live with the comfortable knowledge that, while he started his geo career with me, he has far surpassed my knowledge base and is out there rocking it in the world! All that from a community college start.
Respect from someone who has $250,000 in undergrad debt and didn’t end up getting the median salary from my school! Definitely limiting my career options after law school as I can’t go full price to a T14.
I work with pre-law students/alums the U of M* and I can say with 100% certainty that being a transfer student does NOT impact admissions to even the most selective of law schools - I think almost 80-90% of the applicants i'm working with have transfer credit, whether it's from PSEO or as an actual transfer student. There also are a lot of discussions in law school admissions about how to encourage community college students to think about law school as an option more, and to make the admissions process more accessible, so attending a community college to start certainly wouldn't be viewed as a negative at all.
The biggest thing I wish was talked about more is that ALL OF THESE GRADES COUNT for grad school admissions, pretty much across the board! (But absolutely they do for law school - they recalculate the GPA so that every single college level grade, including classes that are repeated, counts equally) Don't take that class as a junior in HS unless you are ready to do well in it, and if you are at all in doubt?? Just keep going on with your HS classes.
*Views posted here do not represent my employer :)
YES- when I worked at my last community college, I encountered more than a few students who were shocked to discover that failing or getting a D in their PSEO class resulted in then getting put on academic warning or suspension at the community college and could impact their ability to get admitted to college as a degree seeking student later on.
I've been a STEM faculty at a local community college for 16 years and can attest that our graduates literally go everywhere! A serious joy of my job is getting asked to write recommendation letters for previous students and getting to keep up with where they head when they leave my classroom. One my earliest students transferred to St Thomas after getting his AA degree from us, and then went on to a geoscience graduate program at Berkley. I eventually got to write him a (successful) recommendation letter for a National Science Foundation Fellowship and I live with the comfortable knowledge that, while he started his geo career with me, he has far surpassed my knowledge base and is out there rocking it in the world! All that from a community college start.