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Originally posted by chilicheese01
Or you could've gotten a scholarship at the start of college to fund all four years of uni if you did very well in high school. Plus the education for the first two years would be better than community college.
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No it's not necessarily. Community Colleges have smaller class sizes and the teachers actually help you when you need it. Secondly, with Community College there is less competition for a scholarship upon transfer to a 4 year university. If you are smart enough to have a budget, why pay a premium price for basic Calculus and English Lit classes and hurt your college GPA because everyone else in Uni is graded on a bell curve. Even if you do good they will drop your scores down so they look like they are challenging students. Community College is a better bang for your buck in the first two years whilst you figure out what you want to do with your life.
Even coming from Community College I still ended up with a 3.4 GPA at SMU which is considered a really good GPA. So the first two years didn't make much of a difference what school I went to. The biggest difference in my performance is that I was working 3 jobs while taking a full load of college classes while at SMU to pay for my car and my rent as SMU scholarships don't cover cost of living stipends.