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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son just finished his second year at a community college. He has a 4.0, but didn't get accepted into the flagship that many students at his CC transfer to because he didn't have the right classes due to bad advisement. We actually talked to someone at that flagship and it turns out he's only missing three classes. Even though he could get those three classes out of the way this coming fall semester, this flagship only admits transfer students for the fall, so he have to wait a whole year before transfer transferring to this flagship as a junior, meaning it would take him a total of 5 years to get his Bachelor's degree.

He has, however, been accepted to a few local lackluster colleges. Although he has a good chance of going to this really good college if he sticks it out another year, he says he's thinking about this time two years from now, and doesn't think he'll be able to bear watching all his friends from high school graduate college before him. When I pointed out to him that he would probably make more money if he went to this flagship, he said that even a seven-figure salary couldn't make up for the heart-ache of seeing all his friends graduate before him. Graduations are really important to him.[/quote]

It doesn't matter where he goes to college or how long it takes. My dental specialist who just did an oral surgery went to some tiny school that I had never heard of and have never seen it mentioned on these boards. Literally never heard of it to the point I cannot remember exactly the name. Anyway, he did well enough there and got into dental school, then residencies, and now makes a F-ton of money doing oral surgery. I know lots of people like this (including a person who went to Radford undergrad and ended up at an ivy for grad school and now is a very successful PA).[/quote]

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