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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-- [b]"It's not a bad idea to do the first two years at a community college on the cheap, then transfer to a more prestigious university." (Have fun with that!)[/b]

-- Some variation of "undergrad rank/prestige doesn't matter, only grad school matters." ( :roll: )

-- Boasting about all the APs their child is in, never mentions the AP exam scores. ( :roll: )

-- "Emma is doing research this summer with a university biochemistry department." (Emma is currently taking AP chemistry.)

-- The passive aggressive "oh, I've heard that's a [i]good[/i] school."[/quote]

As a financial adviser, [b]this[/b] is one of the smartest things a student, who isn't going to get a full (or even 50%) ride and whose parents are not going to foot the bill, could do.

Do you know how many clients I have who are lawyers who are 6-figures in debt from school loans?  A good amount.  Because the market is so saturated, many aren't even with big firms making the big bucks they thought would be coming their way.

The job market is tough enough as it is without stepping out into adulthood $50k in debt.

I know of a teen who did NVCC for 2 years and transferred to UVA.  She's now in her second year of med school at Johns Hopkins.       [/quote]

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