Based on the major planning you started reflecting, now we're going to pivot to mapping out your plan for the time you're here at SCCC, where you might be going after SCCC, and perhaps even some tentative plans for moving beyond that—whether that involves graduate school or stepping toward a profession.
This week, we'll start with your academic planning for SCCC.
1) SCCC COURSE PLAN
To complete this step, you will map out what you're currently taking this semester at SCCC (including any courses you may have taken in previous semesters and/or have transferred in), what you're planning to take in next semester, and what you're planning to take each semester after that—to the point of graduation.
Sometimes students are thinking they'd like to leave SCCC before they have earned an associates degree. Nothing wrong with that! One word of caution, however: If you leave with an associates degree, your transfer school is far more likely to start you off as a junior and, in most SUNY schools (depends in a few majors), you're guaranteed to start off as a junior.
If you transfer to a four-year college with just a bunch of credits but no degree, it's the prerogative of the transfer school to accept or reject whichever credits they wish. This puts you in a worse position because naturally they tend to want to accept as few transfer courses as possible (so you retake them there, which is more tuition money in their coffers!).
That's why we recommend earning an associates, as it greatly enhances your status as a transfer student.
Here's what to do next:
2) AFTER SCCC
For the second part of this project, simply type a few lines about what you're planning right now for what might come after SCCC. This can be a series of bullet points showing four-year colleges you're considering for transfer, or various occupations you've been considering, or maybe you're thinking about military service or working for a relative's business or taking a year off for travel!
Whatever it is, paste your "After SCCC" plans—yes, I know these might be very tentative and will likely change—in the message area of the discussion forum posting where you'll attach your academic plan file.