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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After 2 years, [b]most [/b]community college students end up transferring to a university, with many of them transferring to flagships, and are in just as good as, if not better, standing than most of their peers from high school who went straight to university.[/quote]

First start with your premise. First of all most do not end up transferring. A lot of the degrees offered at community colleges are terminal degrees.[/quote]

Maybe 10% of community college students ever finish a four-year bachelor's degree. This idea community colleges are full of savvy smart kids taking cheap courses before they transfer to the state flagship is an absurd internet message board fabrication.[/quote]

I agree with you, but I'd be curious to see hard stats. Do you have them?[/quote]

I'm not your gofer. Just poke around government scorecard.[/quote]

Ah, so you just throw fake numbers out there. Cool. [/quote]

DP but please don't be that askhole. You can look up this information yourself. You can go college by college and design your own spreadsheet and then you can come back and tell us all what you learned. [/quote]

The percentage is 19 percent in Virginia and 20 percent in Maryland:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.fink/viz/TrackingTransferStateOutcomes/Introduction

The press release summarizing the data is here:

https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/press-releases/new-reports-all-backgrounds-transfer.html

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