Broader Paths to Admission: Choosing Community College Over the Blind Leap into a Four Year University

I am a big advocate of the Community College route! Not only simply based on lower costs. However that is a big one NOW as tuition rates have skyrocketed and education is in the back, burning. Most importantly! A huge percentage of young freshman choose a major without a complete or realistic perception of how that discipline will translate in the real, working, world. Which increases drop-out rates as well as career and discipline changes both mid-stream within a program and/or later in life. Choosing a Community College transfer program provides a healthy and inspiring landscape for experiential trial and error. A student's peers are more diverse in terms of age and background. Which sheds an entirely new and more thorough light on discussed subject matter. Students have more flexibility to investigate other majors and disciplines without the heavy burden of tuition costs and program expectations. 

Students straight out of High School haven't a clue as to who they are, who they want to be and what becoming that actually means. Peer and parental expectations are often times primary motivations for subjects that may not be of interest. Community Colleges embody sincere experience and affordable academic investigation. In my opinion, this path is an all encompassing study of the self in relation to the world around us. Relative to whatever major or discipline and provides access to Institutions that may have otherwise been out of reach.