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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She does community college and applies again for the sophomore year.[/quote]

She's a straight-A student. We're not looking for Ivy League, but I'd be pissed if it came to this, to put it mildly. [/quote]

If people have no choice but to start with a community college or a commuter college, or they really want to take that route, great.

But, for kids who luck out and have a good fit with where they end up, the freshman dorm is more important than the classes or the diploma. Even a bad experience in a freshman dorm is educational. So, if you can help your daughter start out in a respectable, dorm-oriented four-year , that’s a lot better than the community college route.

This is like the high SATs discussion. Of course, all sorts of brilliant people refuse to take standardized tests or, for whatever reason, have low scores, and decent people know that’s no big deal.

But, seriously, if you have a choice, all other things being equal, of course it’s better to be a National Merit scholar.

And, of course, all other things being equal, it’s better for many students who want the dorm experience to start out in a dorm at Juniata or the University of Nebraska than to start out in a community college, or to skip college altogether because some luminaries have declared that college is the new poodle skirt.

The dorm might be loud or have mice, but learning to deal with the hassles is as much a part of college as discovering that college physics is hard. [/quote]

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