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[quote=Anonymous]My brother did it.  He had a circuitous route through college.  Basically he was at a private liberal arts college and was floundering in part because he wasn't mature enough to be away from home, in part because he was struggling with depression, in part because the social environment was a bad fit for him, and in part because he didn't know what he wanted to study.  My parents pulled him out because they felt mediocrity and not taking one's education seriously was not worth 50K or whatever tuition was.  He did community college at home for a couple years, figured out that he wanted to study engineering, and transferred.

It worked out well for him, but he did spend about six years in college.  The main complaint he had was that not all his credits transferred and/or met distribution requirements and his major (mechanical engineering) had a lot of major requirements, so he had to spend 2.5 or 3 years at the last college he went to.  If you go that route, you have to be careful about credits transferring and/or meeting particular distribution requirements at the next college attended.

My brother-in-law did it for a variety of personal reasons.  However, none of his credits transferred and he also ended up spending six years in college.  I think it can work out well, but it can also result in spending a lot of extra time in school.
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