Is university a lot harder than community college?

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I've never attended university and I'm in a nursing program at CC. A friend of mine told me that anatomy is a lot harder at university it is at CC and scantrons are not even used in university because you have to write out the answers. He said CC is like just elementary school compared to university.

OK. here is the thing:

Anatomy / Physiology exams are up to instructors. Some treat it like a biology class, others treat it like a regular "content assessment" class with multiple guess answers.

As far as I know, nursing schools must use multiple guess answer format questions, because that is the standard testing for NCLEX.

Universities are not really harder, just more people attend universities and the instructors may not be always available. I attend a university but all my instructors were always available either through email or office hours to talk with about content and test reviews.

Define harder? Literally it's harder according to my friend who went to both university and CC

You talk as though you already believe your friend is right so what does it matter what anyone else tells you? Maybe your friend had more difficult classes at his university than he did at CC but what does any of that have to do with you, now? Did you take the identical classes at the CC and will be taking identical classes at university compared with your friend's schedule? Do you get the same grades in every CC class that your friend also took, with the same instructors? If you answered no to any of these then there's no point in listening to him!

Maybe, too, your friend took his prerequisite classes at CC like you are doing and when he got to the nursing program at the university it was much harder. That has nothing to do with university being harder than CC, it has everything to do with the core program being harder than general ed stuff.

The whole point is that if CC classes were significantly different than university classes the credits wouldn't transfer to a university.

You talk as though you already believe your friend is right so what does it matter what anyone else tells you? Maybe your friend had more difficult classes at his university than he did at CC but what does any of that have to do with you, now? Did you take the identical classes at the CC and will be taking identical classes at university compared with your friend's schedule? Do you get the same grades in every CC class that your friend also took, with the same instructors? If you answered no to any of these then there's no point in listening to him!

No its not like I believe him entirely I never attended university before so I have no idea how they teach at university but I will eventually transfer to university after my nursing school at CC. I was wondering if I would do well at university if I am doing well at CC

No its not like I believe him entirely I never attended university before so I have no idea how they teach at university but I will eventually transfer to university after my nursing school at CC. I was wondering if I would do well at university if I am doing well at CC

If you are doing well at CC because you have good study habits then you are likely to continue that in university. I think it's reasonable to say that most people who had straight As in prerequisites found that they couldn't maintain straight As in nursing school, it's just the nature of the program. If you were barely passing up until now I could easily predict you'd be failing out of any nursing program anywhere. No one but you will know how you will do but if you remember to not let anything go slack, always keep up the best grades you possibly can then you should be fine. People who think starting out with Bs is fine are the ones who end up struggling mightily later on. Do you best!

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No its not like I believe him entirely I never attended university before so I have no idea how they teach at university but I will eventually transfer to university after my nursing school at CC. I was wondering if I would do well at university if I am doing well at CC

I went to CC and then went to university-I have my bachelors and a respectable GPA of 2.98 when I graduated, so it'll be safe to say, I do just fine. :D

I'm sure you will too, as many others did bride you...and you will have less debt to boot. ;)

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