Palomar College

The Escondido campus has been upgraded so it’s decent.
Why three stars? Just go to the library and try to study. There is a lady at the front desk that clearly has no idea of a library because she is talking the entire time. Not whisper it was full conversation in loud voices. I tried to study and heard her call in for trademark rights, talk to some guy that came in about useless things, comment on Charley chapmans looks?!, and just keep random conversation up with other ladies behind the desk. Really? I have an education to pursue and grades to keep up.
You work in a LIBRARY! Be quiet!
Useful tip: don’t try and study here.
And now they’re trying to figure out who some blonde French actresses name is!!!

Palomar College has NO admission standards. All you need is a pulse and course fees. As a result, you get bottom of the barrel motivation students and teachers.
Stay clear of remedial classes if you can. The teachers aren’t that compelled to teach the students what skills or concepts they’re missing and cut out early. The students are shortchanged. They’re not getting the instruction hours they were promised. Also the teachers aren’t assigning homework to reinforce the skills. The remedial classes don’t court towards transfer units to a four year university.
If you’re truly a motivated student who has the GPA to obtain admission to a four year university, do yourself a HUGE favor and apply and attend there. The lower division classes offered at Palomar aren’t equal to the lower division classes offered at the four year universities. Just studying along side students who put in the extra effort in high school to get the GPA necessary to get into the colleges that have admission standards is HUGE. It makes a bit difference to the educational level of the class as the teachers know they’re teaching more motivated students with higher abilities.
So, if you’re still in high school, WORK HARD to get that great GPA and top scores on the SATs. It WILL make a difference in the long run on your graduation rate. Community colleges have notoriously low transfer rates to four year universities.
That’s it and GOOD LUCK in your future education endeavors.

Super convenient for me! Living down the street, it takes me roughly 5 – 7 minutes to get there and park. Parking is easy, I’ve never had to circle around much to find a spot. Even when it’s the first or second week of the semester, parking was fine.
There are a number of classes available, which is helpful, esp for night classes. I’ve been lucky enough to find the classes I needed during the evenings.
There’s a small computer area at the entrance of the main building and also a small library around the corner. It’s never packed too much that you ever wait for a computer to use. Which makes studying and printing incredibly easy and fast, especially when you’re running late and need to print lecture notes out!

I had never been to an actual college campus besides beauty school, and even though the San Marcos campus is in no way in comparison to UCSD or SDSU, it was a little intimidating as a young student trying to navigate and plan my breaks between classes at that location. Living in Ramona but also coming from living in Escondido for years prior, the location was great and the parking and distance from class to class was so easy and convenient it made me comfortable and confident I could tackle my first semester in college and I was right, all A’s! When I decided to split up my classes and take one at the San Marcos campus I found myself not attending due to the simple fact I didn’t want to fight for forty five minutes to get a crappy space miles away. Every community college should do this that has such a broad variety of students from Carmel Mtn to Oceanside!

Graduated. I liked the college. It is smaller and hard to get in classes unless you have priority registration though. Parking sucks.

I decided to go back to school and get some educashion. This place is an annex from the main college. There is no parking problem whatsoever. The facility is very pleasant, and the staff could not be nicer. My problem is with the new junior college student. I don’t understand their behavior. I must qualify this statement. Only a few students in each class suffer from a severe case of junior highitis. They are immature, talk constantly, text the entire class, fall asleep on their desk (that’s actually a blessing), and ask questions that were answered 5 minutes earlier. They even annoy their own age group. I actually think they are somewhat amusing, but I don’t understand why they are paying to go to the college and get nothing out of it. The professors are too tolerate. I would petition for corporal punishment to get behavior back on track. Rulers are not only for measuring. Anyway, let’s talk about the fantastic staff. They are caring, dedicated, well-​prepared, and terribly underpaid with little or no healthcare provided. I really learned a lot from my professors this past semester. Their learning center has everything that you could imagine. They have computers everywhere, printers, textbooks, and tutors all over the place to help you immediately… and they do. This is a place that works to guarantee your success. Also. the bathrooms are very clean, and they have a nurse on duty giving out free rubber wrappers. The food shop is not so hot. It only has fattening junk food and their bookstore is as big as a closet… but they are ALL very nice.

After being here for three years I finally transferred to CSUSM, I have met many very amazing, loving teachers here, who I still keep in contact with, teachers who are still not even comparable to teachers at CSUSM.
PROS:
–Amazing teachers, genuinely care.
–Inexpensive and they try to keep it that way.
–Sister school to CSUSM, they will do their best to get you in.
CONS:
–they seriously need to get their guidance counselors in order because they don’t know jack. Jerry at the Esco campus is the only one who has literally gone beyond her job to help me.
–Parking? lawlawlawl what parking, get there at 6am to find it. People will kill you for a spot. I’ve also had my car scratched to hell from parking here.
–The people make this school worse than it seems, bro’s and ho’s who failed out of high school.

The people that work in the administrative office are not helpful at all. I remember I applied for there nursing program here before I ever got into SDSU’s SON. I sent in all my applications and requirements needed for their nursing program, but when I go back to check on it, they tell me that they lost all my paper work and that I would have to apply for the next semester. They told me that they also lost 20 other students’ files. They are trying to find out where they all went.
They are all disorganized and don’t help at all.
We need education people!

This place is all right. I got really confused when I got here and I couldn’t really figure out where were all of the classrooms were.
The lady that was inside the bookstore was dumb as a bat and just was working really slow and just couldn’t figure out an easy task.
This college is set inside a little mini mall or shopping center kind of place. I didn’t like the fact that this place was kind of hidden and there weren’t much notice saying, «HEY! Here’s Palomar College!!»
Overall, this is a pretty interesting campus, but i guess that they are doing their park to keep everything safe here.

This has got to be one of the most drab college campuses in San Diego. This is satellite campus of San Marcos’ Palomar college. It is located in a mini mall, in one of Escondido’s blandest areas. It is a pretty depressing sight compared to most campuses. There aren’t exactly rolling hills with trees and grass where students can hang out and study.
Plus, there are very few business around where students can go to. Which is why barely anybody at this campus socializes. Oh yeah, and the parking here (not unlike every other college campus) sucks. But after a few weeks in the semester more parking places open up because people tend to drop their classes pretty regularly at the campus … I wonder why.