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That's what I did and it was lit. Worked at kmart for a year then pretty much paid my tuition out of savings. Stood way out in all my classes. Got transfer scholarship to my state flagship. If money isn't an issue I guess four years could be better, but it seems pretty good to use CCs.

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Maybe you're opposed to using government aid which is fine; but if you had to work to pay for community college you probably could've qualified for Pell Grants that would have paid for everything since community college is so cheap.

> Maybe you're opposed to using government aid which is fine

It's also worth pointing out that Pell Grants for CC tuition often constitute less public money than you were consuming during K-12.

Unfortunately my household had pretty high income but wasn't really available to the children due to my mother being sick and my father being pretty bad with money. But I did get a Pell Grant and a similar state grant once I aged into FAFSA independece, which meant the only thing I had to pay for my second year at our state flagship was food.

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