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This school could be one of the premierQuite BrightPsychology
This school could be one of the premier community colleges in the country; however, the lack of attention to detail with regard to the staff and faculty has made it one of the very worst. The arrogance and condescension that is displayed from the top of the ladder, on down to the bottom rung, is what is holding this college back. There is NO accountability on the part of the faculty or staff for their rude and hostile behavior's. The student is consistently held to a high standard of performance, along with a protocol of behavior, but the faculty and staff are constantly lacking in manners, professionalism and knowledge for their individual job descriptions. Forget about getting a straight answer from financial aid, they just sit around and eat all day. They have no knowledge of the current laws that exist nor do they care. They get paid to sit on their lazy hind ends and chat on the phone and eat. The advisors are no better, they will direct you into the wrong classes, or they will be misinformed of the class requirements that exist for entrance. The information specialist's, the cashiers, and any other employee of BCC seem to have some prima donna complex. They are rude and hostile each and every time they are approached. I have emailed the President of the school, the provost and any other top presiding official but to no response. They seem to like losing student to competing schools and with the innovation of online classes, I suspect that attendance will be dwindling quite quickly. My advice is to save your time, money and sanity and attend any other community college in the central Florida area!
1st Year Female -- Class 2012
Perceived Campus Safety: B+, Education Quality: F
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I attended BCC as an out of stateBrightMechanical Engineering
I attended BCC as an out of state student, hoping to establish residency while paying out of state tuition and living there for a year. Upon my first visit to register for classes, the snobby lady at the front desk who yells at people and treats them like garbage did not set the greatest first impression. She was not just having a bad day. She is like that all the time. The whole pick a number system is completely ridiculous. For this place to be called a college, that system is a disgrace. A 6-year-old could have come up with a better system. The advisors tell you to take all the wrong classes, and the placement exam is probably rigged to squeeze an extra buck out of you. How does someone who passed Pre-calc, Physics, and 4 years of English in a Northern Virginia high school with an "A" end up in remedial math and reading improvement where they teach you how to factor polynomials and read faster?

BCC is a joke. I don't understand why the administration staff has to be completely arrogant. Even the guy running the testing center has no regard for students! When I went in to take a scheduled exam, I had to wait for 20 minutes for him to get off the phone. There is a waiting area outside of his office, and while I was waiting there in plain sight for him to acknowledge me, and all he did was get up and said, "You need to wait outside, in the main lobby... I'll come and get you when I'm done." I went out to the main lobby and the watched the bastard walk out of the testing center with his jacket on like he was going to lunch and never saw him again.

The teachers there present little/no challenge, except for the humanities teacher I had who didn't actually teach anything. He just stood up there and talked about random things completely unrelated to the materials needed to be covered in the course.

After having lived there for a year, and getting ready to register for my 3rd semester, I was still considered an out-of-state student because some bill was supposedly passed during the year that I was not notified about. I spoke with the Dean, just to be treated like a bigger piece of garbage, and finally had it. I wised up and moved back to Northern Virginia and attended a real community college. If you are considering paying out-of-state tuition here, hold on to your money. Wait for a year... or wait... more than a year, and maybe, just maybe if you're lucky, you can get residency. Having the connections at the job that I did have, the Dean of Daytona Community College offered me to go there with in-state tuition because he said that I did indeed qualify, and that there was no bill or whatever kind of non-sense BCC was making up, however, I decided to go back to Northern Virginia anyway to actually challenge myself.

1st Year Male -- Class 2007
Campus Aesthetics: A, Education Quality: F
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BCC is definetly like high school, except thereBrightLanguage - French/Spanish/etc.
BCC is definetly like high school, except there are always a handful of older people returning to school. Most of my classes consisted of 1/2 high schoolers, 1/4 older, and 1/4 18-25 years old. The high school kids forget that this is college and they complain, write notes, talk in class, make excuses, etc. This is a wonderful school if you can't decide where you want to go in life, but it also makes others feel cheated... like myself. I have achieved straight A's, with a few great prof's, some REALLY bad, but most are average. The appearance has gotten a lot better, but there are not any social activities. Life can be quite depressing if your expecting to broaden your horizons while going here.
2nd Year Female -- Class 2004
Faculty Accessibility: A, Useful Schoolwork: F
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