[fuzzylogic]

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?

[Vigilanteman]

My daughter actually started at a four year, came home and did the Community College thing once she saw her mounting debt, worked a year in addition and then went back to finish with greatly reduced debt.

Thanks partly to that experience (and, I like to think, good parents), she went back even more serious, focused and determined than when she started.

Our other two girls didn't do the Community College thing, but both took a year or more off to work before going back to finish. We got the same result with them.

Parents who give their children Daddy's credit card and a promise to pay for the full four years do them a grave disservice. Even if the parents can afford it, which most can't.