Semi-decent community college for what it is. Out of all the community colleges, I definitely like this one the most, mainly because of convenience. However, it lacks useful faculty, resources, and clubs. In comparison, Mesa CC had a ton of clubs to choose from amongst their many established campuses, but the Dobson one had more than SCC has currently active, and for Scottsdale, I thought they’d have more when initially choosing this as my primary college, especially for pre-meds. I took a BIO class at Mesa and was taken aback by how my teacher was encouraging us to pursue the clubs offered there and research opportunities. Scottsdale's selection of BIO teachers is the same every semester, with no variety in that department whatsoever. Definitely look around at the other community colleges if you want more active faculty, club facilitators, and student body. Resource-wise pertaining to internships and jobs, you can join a Canvas group centralized on what you're studying. However, they posted this too-good-to-be-true "opportunity" from "Vector Marketing," which is like a total scam! I couldn't believe they actually posted that in one of the communities (business, I think?) on Canvas. Now, for my assigned advisors, I've had the misfortune of dealing with, simply are terrible! My whole time I've been here, I've put together my entire course schedule each semester, except for my first semester when I trusted those vultures to take into consideration my time, money, and willingness of how much I wanted on my plate. They're also extremely snarky and brag about their experience of being advisors for over TWENTY YEARS!!! I'm transferring to the four-year uni's and my counselor made the effort to reach out to me before I could get a chance to reach out to them and scheduled me into my courses a year in advance. I was in awe considering the support SCC's advisors gave me. Now for assignments pertaining to the writing center available on campus and online, it's a hit or miss. I got one feedback on my assignment in which the learning facilitator of the writing center let her anger consume her judgment of my paper and gave me a bunch of marks that were just point-blank invalid, especially since she didn't do background research on the stuff I mentioned and just commented on whatever she perceived was wrong based on her opinion. I submitted the assignment w/o correction to my teacher, and she graded it with full marks, so even if I made the "corrections" according to the writing center's "feedback," it wouldn't have mattered. The teacher's vary depending on the class you take. You can get bad ones and good ones. After taking classes all over the Maricopa Community College system, I can say most of them suck. Most of the time you're just teaching yourself because some respond late and also expect the best out of you (especially no ai use while also secretly using it themselves) and making spelling/grammar errors on quizzes that are critical to your grade since missing one question brings your grade down a whole level. I once had a quiz question that had two of the same answers while simultaneously not displaying the correct answer. The instructor was not lenient and expected everyone to just take the hit on their grade percentage. I suggest doing thorough research on the rate my professor website. Sometimes it's helpful and sometimes it's not, but you can get a good idea of whether a teacher is worth taking. The hardest part of graduating from college isn’t the curriculum itself; it’s the teachers.
The positives are the bookstore employees and guys in carts on campus (I'm sorry, I'm unsure of what their occupation title is), but they're chill and super nice. Also, the campus is pretty sweet, very secluded and quiet if that's more your speed, especially when I go in the mornings, and an actual campus unlike Glendale's corporate Amazon offices.
