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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would try to get into one of the lesser known four year programs.

CC is a great option for a hard-working, but middling student.  They will put it the time, get the grades and have transfer options.  I've known a few kids like you describe your own.  Middling students that are not particularly focused on education.  I've seen 3 kids that I knew that went to CC, for a couple of years, then dropped out and got low-paying jobs and never got the degree.  One went to work in a Target warehouse and got a better than minimum wage job, so he was doing okay, but he ended up a boomerang child and is now 30 and still living at home and working at Target.  Another did some sort of medical technician vocational school and is working in a doctor's office.

[b]I think if he can get into a 4 year program, then he should.  He doesn't sound like the type that will drop out and will drive himself to go back to CC later and get that degree.  Better a less recognized degree than no degree[/b].[/quote]

Both of my husband's nephews went to CC at NOVA. One got a few Ds and Fs before quitting and getting a job at the Amazon warehouse. That job lasted about a year. He's over 30 now and lives at home and gets cash back on his mother's debit card when grocery shopping for her for cash, and she never brings it up. There have been no other jobs. It's pretty pathetic. The other nephew did the OTA program, a 2yr occupational therapy assistant program at NOVA, and there was much talk of how doing that program meant automatic acceptance to Shenandoah University and the the actual occupational therapist program. Shocker, he never made it to Shenandoah and works in a nursing home as an OTA making barely above minimum wage. He at least has an apt in DC (well, he lives in a basement that isn't his mother's).

I say send your DC to a four year college if you can. [/quote]

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