[quote=AN][quote=CA renter][quote=AN][quote=CA renter]$5,000/year…yes, it’s worth it. As a matter of fact, CC students get priority over continuing students when they transfer for their junior year. IMHO, CC is a winner, all around.[/quote]
$4k/year, not $5k/year. $4k is not worth it if you lose a year from your professional career.[/quote]
Going from your quote:
If you want to compete CSU vs CC WRT cost, CSU tuition is $6,562. Tuition for SD CC is ~$1500/year. That’s a cost difference of $4k/year.
The difference between $6,562 and $1,500 is $5, 062, not $4,000. [CC graduate! 🙂 ]
Still, not sure if you’d actually lose a year from your professional career…some might, but others won’t. Even if you did, you can always work that “extra year” at the end of your career, if you’re worried about not having that one extra year’s worth of income (not sure if that’s what you’re arguing).[/quote]
Oops, good catch. Dang math, kills me every time 🙂
Is that $5k worth having to work an extra year? That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Time = $ and I’m pretty sure it takes more time to graduate from a CC and a CSU/UC. That’s my main point, typically, it take at least an extra year to graduate from CC->CSU/UC vs going straight to CSU/UC. The reason I pick $40k number (just an arbitrary starting salary for a typical BS degree). It could be more it could be less. If you’re talking about adding one “extra year”, then the person who went straight to CSU/UC can work an extra year too.
Another way to look at it is, you have 47 years of your life for secondary school and work. Lets say you spend 5 years in college and 42 years of work and you save $5k-12k in school. But if you go straight to CSU/UC and graduate in 4 years. You’d spend 4 years in college and 43 years in working. You spend $5-12k more in school, but you’ll be making 1 extra year of salary.[/quote]
Yes, I get your point, but one might also argue that money is more valuable when you are starting out, so saving that money now — possibly the difference between staying out of debt or taking on loans — might be more valuable than having that 1 year’s worth of extra income later.
Of course, there are so many variables involved.
Correction regarding mom…it was cum laude, not summa cum laude. Still, I probably didn’t give her enough credit, especially since English wasn’t her native language.
