Get what you can (especially the general education stuff) at a community college. The credits transfer and cost a lot less. You will cut down your graduation debt by 25% to 50%.
Yeah, it is nowhere near as glamorous living at or near home and commuting, but in addition to being a hell of a lot cheaper, you will get classmates and instructors who still have at least one foot in the real world.
Good one! Completely agree....and probably a better bet that the student won’t go down the wrong path as do many in those first semesters away from home (frat parties, drugs, etc.). I saw many go down that way...it seemed as though the people I knew that went to community college all finished. I wonder if anyone else experienced similar?