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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are so, soooo dumb.

Draining their entire life savings to pay for college.

Morons.

Send your damn kid to the community college for 2 years then transfer to a state school with living from home arrangements for the last 2 years.

You idiots wipe out your entire savings so your stupid kids can have the 'college experience' and get the same damn basic education your state and community colleges offer. A BS degree matters so sooooooooo little over the longrun.  Just get the cheapest one possible. I can't believe there are still millions of really stupid people out there willing to pay over $100k for a useless BS degree.  [/quote]

Community college is for academic failures to gain a 2nd chance. Kids will good grades are already getting into the state colleges first time round.[/quote]

NP— absolutely wrong.  I graduated in top 5% of my class and scored in top 5% of SAT, but would have needed to take out loans to attend college so instead I attended community college as I could easily work part time to pay for school while living at home.

After getting AA degree I started 3rd year of college at UC Berkeley.  This was common in California in the 80s and seems common still.  [/quote]

[b]Fewer than 40% of community college students earn a degree or a certificate within 6 years of enrolling

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/community-college-completion-rates-structural-and-motivational-barriers/
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They are a great thing and should be supported, but they are not a panacea [/quote]

The Brookings piece is from 2018.  The PP clearly stated she had done it in the 80s. I grew up in California back then and can attest that this was very common back then in California.  Very few graduates from my public high school were fortunate enough to go on to top 4 year institutions. Many left for trades (shocking I know) and work and many went to what was then called "junior college" and either graduated with a terminal AA degree or transferred.  My own cousins went this route and transferred, one to UCLA, the other to USC.[/quote]

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