&gt;Intro courses are the same (calculus and basic chemistry are calculus and basic chemistry)<p>I went to a tech school. I also went to community college over my first summer for some basic classes. The community college classes were laughably easy and most certainly weren&#x27;t anywhere near college level, and this was considered a &quot;good&quot; community college.<p>I hear that in state schools they pack 100+ people in a lecture hall for biology 101 or whatever. That seems like it would be difficult to learn that way. I went to a private school and there was no giant classes.