00:00 Lots of students asked me if it's OK for them to start their engineering journey
at a two year community college and then transfer to a four year engineering university program
or college program.
Will this video be talking about all about that right now.
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This is a really interesting topic today and I know a couple engineers who have had success
with starting at community college and then transferring to a four year school.
01:18 So for the young engineers who are still considering which college to go into who may
have friends who are younger or siblings who are younger who are considering engineering
school you can help them out with this advice.
So this video is going to talk about three reasons why it's potentially a good idea to
start at a community college and then transfer to a four year engineering school.
Reason number one and this is the direct response to amuse question or the overarching question
is that companies or grad schools or potential future opportunities don't actually care that
you went to community college.
If you got that for your degree if you actually finished up at a four year university and
accredited engineering school then they don't actually care at all.
It's a very common road for college students in general to start at a community college
or starting a smaller college and then transfer to a bigger school.
02:07 So don't worry about it.
Looking back don't worry about any negative connotations at all it's totally fine.
In fact I have several friends who have had success as Shadel to grant Waldy who was a
bridge engineer in Vancouver and I worked with him for four years but he went to Comodo
College which in Canada they call it college but we would call it community college and
then he transferred to a University of British Columbia.
It took him five total years.
So he did to come Asa and 3 at UBC and now he's crushing it and he's leading the bridge
inspection division with Parsons Corporation who I used to work for and make a bunch of
money.
He's gotten big salary increases because he's a leader because he's a good communicator
because he does business development and you would never even know that he took a somewhat
less stereotypical path to an engineering university graduating and then entering the
workforce.
02:55 In fact many universities partner with community colleges and accept all of the credits
that they provide their students after their two year community curriculum.
So you have no risk in that regard and you have no judgment in the career world in the
corporate world.
So guys it's totally fine and Reason Number 2 comes down to financial incentive.
University tuition has been skyrocketing over the last several decades and if you choose
a community college particularly if you live at home for the first two years and just drive
in or if you have a local community college in your area maybe you can walk or take your
bike but you're going to save so much money on tuition alone.
03:32 You're going to save so much money on room and board.
You're probably going to party less.
You may even have the ability to work part time while you're in school because typically
community college curriculums are a little bit more flexible.
They do have more or less traditional students who still need to work.
They may have kids they may be going back to school so a lot more classes are at night
or a little bit more flexible.
For example you may have just a single day class that goes for three hours and you have
more of your week that's freed up more of your time it's freed up to do other things
like shadow engineering companies or maybe even get internships or start doing informational
interviews about which type of engineering you want to be.
What you're going to have more free time.
04:12 Are you going to be able to work.
You're going to save so much money on tuition.
You're going to save so much money on room and board.
You're probably going to party last are probably going to eat out less and all types of things
like this so there's a big big financial incentive to do the community college route today so
it highly encourage it guys and 3 it comes down to a GPA advantage here.
Generally when you start the college road when you get thrown into the freshman year
environment you end up doing lots of social things you have a big steep learning curve
when it comes to college in general particularly engineering college.
I had a super crappy GPA my freshman year and it really does take that first year that
first two years to get into the flow of things to become a serious student to figure out
what you need to do to commit to your work to generate good habits in your world.
04:57 Figure out what you need to do to be productive to meet people to study with things
like this.
So I didn't really start getting good grades until junior year.
And if you go to a community college you're really figuring out how to be a college student
in smaller bites smaller steps by the time you get to that full engineering university
in your third year you're going to have so many more advantages compared to other students
who just got thrown to the wolves like I did and had to figure it out as they go.
Freshman year sophomore year.
So I think you have such a better chance of having a stronger GPA upon graduation if you
only do your third and fourth year at a four year university guys.
05:31 So those are the top three reasons why I think that you can do community college
or if you end up advising a friend or family member or for all of your present engineers
out there who are trying to figure out what is your next move.
Juniors and seniors in high school I know a bunch of you are 16 17 so take this advice
guys consider it if you have a community college that isn't too far away from home and you
can drive and maybe you're going to save some money.
So like an example number one maybe you'll be in a situation where there's a school in
your state that will accept all the credits from the community college that is in your
backyard too.
You're going to save a bunch of money on tuition room and board social life stuff.
And 3 you will probably have a better GPA when you exit your four year university when
you finally graduate from that four year school.
If you start at community college guys.
06:21 So for these reasons I would heavily consider it and if you've been enjoying these
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