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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Florida is like California in that it has a very robust and normalized path from 2-year to 4-year schools. [/quote]

Ooof. The idea of community college being the normalized path for someone with a A+ weighted GPA is just unreal.  :shock:

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Not when liberal states like these - to include NY and Maryland are basically extending public education to the 13th and 14th year.  Why wouldn’t you consider that??!

In Maryland if you make less than 150,000 it’s free.  Credits automatically transfer to UMD college park. Above 150,000?  It is something like 1500 a semester.

Smaller classes.  Taught by PhDs and not TAs?  Super attractive.  [/quote]

It is if you've got no other options. Don't forget that peer cohorts count for a lot, and the kids who go there are for the most part not cream of the crop. The ones who will be successful coming out of community college are the ones who are smart and functional enough to have been admitted to good 4 year institutions, were it not for events beyond their control. The only successful person I know who went to CC did so because her parents had just moved to the US and there was a significant language barrier at first, so she couldn't apply to normal colleges. She's now at Hopkins in graduate school: CC--UMD--Hopkins. It's great, but she was smart and driven to being with.
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