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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It is an option for academic failures in today's world PP.  I know you did this in the 80s and I applaud you, but its not the same. CC kids are flunking out of CC all over California. A very tiny minority are getting into the UC[/quote]

Do you have the data to back that up?

Info published by University of California supports a continuing history of CC students successfully transfering to UC schools.  I'm not suggesting that the majority of CC students go on to UC, but if you are a high school senior that is otherwise a good candidate for UC, but you'd like to save $, I don't see anything suggesting that you shouldn't do it.  Not in the 80s and not now.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-source-school

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DP. The real students probably are still transferring at a respectable rate, but especially since online, CCs are overrun with identity fraud for aid theft. When they aren't close to catching all the thieves, presumably the enrollment numbers and transfer rates aren't accurate. [url]https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/college-aid-scam-18119117.php[/url][/quote]

This. My nephews in California are both doing the CC --> UC/Cal State path. One has already transferred successfully and the other is doing well in CC. Here in VA, some of my son's good friends from HS are doing NVCC. One is set to transfer to JMU for Spring 2024, another just started at VT. Another had some mental health issues and is taking a slower path. There is such a wide variety of types of students at CC that average outcomes are pretty meaningless.[/quote]

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