For my final project, I decided to
talk about my last mini project which was about choosing community college over
University College. Who am I talking to? I am talking to students who are first
in their family to go to college. College can be very overwhelming for new and
young students. Filing for scholarship or school could be very hard. The
advantage of going to a community college first is that the school is much
smaller, saved more money, and also guarantees to get in.
A much smaller school means more
face to face interaction. Students are more use to this because they just got
out of high school. In university, the classroom is much larger. Some class can
have over fifty students to hundreds. It’s much harder to ask question and hear
the professor talking. Sometimes you just can’t keep up with the speed of the
professor.
According
to my reading, a father of a recent community college grad noted, "If we
had sent our daughter to UCLA directly out of high school, we would have spent
about $56,000 to get her through to her junior year. She will be entering UCLA
as a junior in the fall, and we only spent around $3,000. Going to a community
college allowed her to work and save for two years and afforded her the time to
apply for scholarships and grants to offset the cost of her remaining two years
of college."
Now,
colleges are harder to get in. You’re losing fifty to hundreds of dollar for
the college application fee and not knowing if you are going to be accepted.
The fear of being rejected and not knowing if you are going to college the very
next year is frustrating. Community college is a guarantee to get in.
This is my rough draft for right now. What else could I write or talk about?
I think that it is really neat that you are going to talk to students to get their experience on how it was to be the first child to go to college in their family. Both of my parents went to college but out of my siblings I am the oldest and first to attend college.
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