[quote=bearishgurl]
I agree with this approach, davelj. I think my last kid is leaning this way due to recently noticing how much “predecessors” have had to pay to live away from home and how long it has taken them to graduate due to work commitments.[/quote]
I don’t know how many hours your kid was working during school, but I was working 20-30/week throughout college and I was still able to finish in 4 years.
[quote=bearishgurl]The GE requirements of the first two years of college can be obtained anywhere and the CC’s are much cheaper (and far less crowded) in these classes than universities. At the end of the day, the ink dries the same color and at the same speed on the university diploma, whether the student spent two years or four years at the university they graduated from. It’s actually faster to do it this way, IMO, due to the agreements UC and CSU have with the CA CC Districts.[/quote]
Although this is true, the one thing you’ll miss out is the college experience of the 1st two years, where you experience the dorm life and making new friends. I missed out on that and I will never be able to experience that. Money can be made later but certain experiences in life only come once.
