[quote=AN]…How are you going to stand out doing the CC->UC/CSU route when your competition did everything you did and graduate UC/CSU in 4 years w/ high GPA.[/quote]
Your argument here has a minor problem, AN. It is technically now impossible to graduate from most CSU campuses in 4 yrs even if you start there as a freshman – due to recent massive instructor layoffs in many popular degree programs as a result of recent heavy budget cuts. The only way to circumvent this problem is to take the missing credits needed to graduate at summer and/or online classes at a different CSU campus and transfer them to your school.
Also, in order to get an “internship,” a student needs to be accepted into a degree program. In order to be accepted into a degree program at CSU, you need at least 56 units of undergrad GE’s completed. These can be obtained economically at the CC level. So whatever kind of job a CC student works will likely have no bearing on whether or not they will be able later to land an internship (when they are qualified to be considered for one).
