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I think you've misunderstood the suggestion. "excellent instructors at the most critical time of higher education" is a reference to the two years you would spend at a full university after knocking out a bunch of credits at a community college. This would allow you to save around half the cost, while still having a name-brand degree and top professors for your higher-level classes.

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Some of my best instructors were at community college. Being a Ph.D. does not automatically make someone a good teacher, in some ways it's detrimental. Having good instruction in foundational classes (math and physics if your going engineering) is important. I would do it that way again and not just for the cost savings. OTOH it did delay my graduation by at least a year, but that's mostly because I took my time.

jschveibinz's post doesn't actually say you should transfer to a full university.

Perhaps we can guess they meant to - but it ain't what they said.

To the contrary, quoting the relevant remarks:

> You will end up saving half of not more of the tuition and boarding expenses compared to spending all four years at a major university...

> And you STILL end up with a diploma from a Major university.

Not explicitly, but can you come up with any other plausible explanation for you could "STILL end up with a diploma from a Major university"? That seems quite clear.

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