Thanks for sharing your thoughts, my turn to jump in. The beauty about career advice is that every single individual is in a unique position to a certain extent. The courses I took at my community college did in fact get transferred (looking past the HOURS of filling out forms and dealing with useless school staff) to my university. So for me the 3 years were excellent because I worked full time and prepared myself for university.

Once I began my university career I was more than reader for the challenge ahead. For me personally it was a logical move because after my high school graduation I wasn’t ready for anything serious. We are all different so please do your own research before making a decision that could impact the rest of your life.

I’m a fan of CC for cost reasons. You could attend a so-so university for four years at the same price as two years at CC and two years at your dream university. In the end, your degree is from the second school, so it doesn’t matter that half your hours came from CC.

I was a film student – if I had gone to a community college to knock out my general education requirements, I would have then transferred to a four year school to learn… I still needed to take the full four years in order to a degree in film. The program is set up so that you have to complete a certain number of projects in succession, that add up to four years no matter how you slice. The year or two at CC would have cost me that time, plus been a complete sink of any money I paid to go to the CC.

The kicker is how a lot of people were pushing me to do this – either with CC or with a private school which I had a large scholarship to. The moral of the story is to talk to advisors at the school you’re planning to transfer to… and be sure that going to CC will be a help to you.

By the way, just stumbled across your blog and it’s very informative. Will bookmark and check back often. Thanks!

Robert