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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me write about the other side of this question.  Out of HS, I didn't get into my first choice school.

I ended up going to my safety and flunking out because I thought I could do the work at my safety using only about 50% effort.

I then ended up doing a year in the equivalent of a CC, where I actually did get straight As with about 50% effort, while I worked 40 hours a week.

By that time, I was very bored with only putting in 50% effort, moved on to my state's 2nd tier flagship, understanding that I had to use all my time to obtain a GPA worthy of grad school.

Now 30 years after getting my phd, I realize when I didn't get into my first choice school, I should have gone to CC, done a better search for a college that fit, and gone there a year late.

OP, that is my suggestion to you as well.  Figure out what college she does want to go to ASAP.  If your DD does really well the first semester of CC, consider applying for her 2nd year.

Even if her 2nd semester doesn't go as well, most likely they would let her defer acceptance a year for another year at CC and you would have lost nothing.

What you want to do is have the right amount of challenge at the right time.  Being able to feed in more challenge on cue is important and being bored is bad.

Good luck[/quote]

I think this is good advice but I do want to caution that CC classes are not necessarily easy peasy.  In fact, CCs have weed out courses just like any other college/university does.  CCs do tend to have smaller classes and the professors tend to be more accessible.  The subject matter is the same as what is taught at a 4 year university and it can be brutal.  It's possible that class curves/extra credit might be handled differently at a CC vs a competitive 4 year institution.  But, in order to do well in upper level courses you really need mastery of that lower level course to succeed.  That means putting in the effort to understand any questions that you might have missed on a test.

Don't go into a CC thinking that you can skate through with little in the way of effort.  Have good study habits from the very beginning of the semester.  [/quote]

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