[Post Toasties]

Nothing wrong with junior college for the first couple of years. The credits are usually fully transferable to finish undergraduate and graduate work elsewhere with a overall great savings of money.

[teg_76]

Agreed...Junior College, if the students are motivated, is a bargain education...especially in CA...it’s like $25 a unit.

[billakay]

Exactly. I went to a community college first, then transferred (with a full tuition waiver scholarship) to a state university. I received my B.S. with just under six thousand in loans (and that was just help pay my rent, as I couldn't afford it on just my part-time job). I'm now in a Ph.D. program at Rutgers University, and as a Teaching Assistant I am not only getting my tuition paid for, I get a salary and state employee medical insurance.

The bottom line is, if you work hard, you get to go to college. Not every person who skates through HS with Cs and Ds is going to cut it.

[billakay]

Exactly. I went to a community college first, then transferred (with a full tuition waiver scholarship) to a state university. I received my B.S. with just under six thousand in loans (and that was just help pay my rent, as I couldn't afford it on just my part-time job). I'm now in a Ph.D. program at Rutgers University, and as a Teaching Assistant I am not only getting my tuition paid for, I get a salary and state employee medical insurance.

The bottom line is, if you work hard, you get to go to college. Not every person who skates through HS with Cs and Ds is going to cut it.