there is no chance the coursework is the same between hvcc and rpi. Thats like me claiming that RPI is equal to MIT. It’s not, never has been and it would be dumb of me to even claim that. I don’t need to go to MIT to know this.
great deal!
I am aware. I worked for a financial aid company that helps students gain financial aid. That’s what DJ said which, as you said, is in the form of loans/free money.
I know of many people who go to UAlbany and such whos parents pay for school and they do absolutely horrible. It is their first semester there too. It’s a total waste of money. They could have saved thousands of dollars and did a few semesters at HVCC first. I have another two semesters left at Hudson Valley. Then im off to St. Rose. Im just trying to save my parents money. Yes, they pay for it…
I go to Hudson Valley because the next closest school that offers the program is in Syracuse and most of what the job pertains to is learned from hands on at the actual job. You can not compare Hvcc to Siena or Cornell or any other major school but it helps alot of people prepare for bigger 4 year schools and offers some programs that other schools don’t.
it depends on the course your taking… my civil course had a ton of work, my automotive classes tho were pretty much pre-k level’s of homework
So if HVCC is equal to my school, Canisius, then the Bio students at HVCC put in roughly 40 hours of work a week on top of classes and labs?
Find me a HVCC bio student that does that much work?
Ditto on Computer Science seniors. I spent well over 250 hours on a semester project, and I was 1 of 4 in a team. We all spent that long on it. The work load is no where near as high at HVCC. I can say this because several of my friends go/went there.
How are class sizes at HVCC? I know most classes here don’t go over 20 students.
Not saying HVCC is a bad school. For what you pay its amazing, but its not equal to a school that costs much more.
the time spent on a project by a student is base off of the student, not the teacher or the course
MOST of the students that go thru hvcc are slackers and don’t want to try, so they put in minimal effort just just scrap by. the ones that care and do very well put in just as much time at a 2 year then they do at a 4 year
I’ve taken classes at Siena and HVCC. HVCC is more like a high school class, whereas Siena was very strict in terms of work quality and attendance, things like that. The Professors at Siena were WAY better than any professor I have had so far at HVCC, aside from Prof. Hurd, my Programming professor. (He has his masters, go figure) For the money HVCC is a good school, but there is better out there. Great “starter” school as well. I wish I went to HVCC first and THEN transferred to Siena instead of doing things backwards. Eh, live and learn.
I cannot imagine a visiting profession from a school like Union giving the same work load.
The workload from Siena to HVCC was at LEAST 2:1
Which makes perfect sense.
No no no. These students put in this much work and get Cs and Bs, not As. If I put in the normal 4-6 hours a week a HVCC student ‘should’ be putting in I would not graduate this May. It has nothing to do with the student’s will to work.
Another difference is the teachers. All full time professors at my school have a PHD. They expect you to be in class, on time, every class. Most classes allow 2-3 misses before they fail you.
:nod
Part of the reason why I am loving HVCC right now, don’t have to do SHIT (compared to what I used to have to do) and still get A’s :mwahaha
idk i must have gotten a tottally different experience then cause my work load was atleast 40 hours of cad a week plus 50 or so for surveying and that was just the first semister… the seond one was sopposed to be more hand drafting which was actually sopposed to be more then cad drafting
when i went to rpi for my transfer classes during highschool the work load was less but my classes where longer and we didnt have access to the computers outside of class so the teachers couldn’t really give us a lot of homework
That’s sad. Good for you but just sad.
if it’s that easy for other poeple in other courses then i guess it’s great for you but i know my teachers worked our asses off that semester and it was only the first one of the course
now my automotive classes were a just dumb… outside of the auto classes the kids knew nothing, math was like 105, i had my scientific calulator in the first class and the teach was like “wow i didn’t think anyone in this class would have one of those” lol… i tested out of that class a week later
personally i have gone to two private schools, one being endicott college which was difficult, then transferred to sage where i am a senior which is also difficult. I took a class at hvcc and there was nothing to it, I was in shock at the amount of work, or lack there of. To say that HVCC is on par with other schools like rpi, siena, union, and even ualbany is just wrong. There’s a reason why people go to HVCC and its not always about the money.
how can you make these comparisons without ever taking a class outside of HVCC? I’ll bet any amount of money that every course is harder and more involved at schools like rit, clarkson, rpi, etc… It’s just how it is.
btw, I took one math class during a summer at SUNY… joke!
wow! You do realize that companies rarely give a shit about GPA, right? A C average degree from Siena holds WAY more weight then a straight A degree from HVCC.