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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Some of you community college bashers are not very intelligent. If a child can spend the first 2 years at community college taking prerequisites, then transfer to UVA, [quote]why not do it?[/quote] The diploma will still read "UVA" and you will have saved many thousands of dollars. Who's the dummy?[/quote]

Happiness
It's not as happy an experience.
We make decisions every day: money vs happiness
The car we drive - it gets us there. Why choose a nicer car?
If you have the money (and I said IF), parents often value providing a happier experience.[/quote]

Missing out on two years of college because my parents made me live at home and commute to a school full of junkies and waitresses? Good time. For the next 50 years whenever people talk about freshman year, dorms, college life... your kid can talk about trying to find a parking spot at the local junior college and mom making him BLTs for lunch.[/quote]

If you are still talking about your freshman year of college "for the next 50 years," you need to get a life.

Also, your parents didn't "make" you go to a community college. The assumption that your parents owe you some kind of fantasy college lifestyle, where they pay ~$50k/year to send you off to a ranked private school/out of state flagship, when you can go to a community college for 1/10th of that amount, is self-indulgent.

Someone who works their way through a community college, and then finishes a four year degree at a decent state school, has my respect. I don't know why people who do this are often insulted by their more privileged peers.[/quote]

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