Should I transfer soon to my University that I was just accepted into for Fall 2018 or...

Transfer Students
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should I wait a little longer to get my Associate’s degree?

I’ve been wondering about this. I have enough transferable credits and a good enough GPA for ASU(the school that accepted me) but I still need several more classes or at least around 3 more semesters(my current semester, Spring 2018 and Summer 2018) to get enough credit for my Associates (specific credits for my major). I was thinking about postponing my very first semester of ASU to get my Associates but the problem is that at my community college, my classes that I need for my major, such as Physics: Mechanics and Computer Science courses (Java, C++, etc.) mostly have either mediocre professors(that are un-engaging in their classes), according to many Rate My Professor ratings (including ratings from students who have somehow passed those professors’ classes yet learned very little from them) or good professors that conflict with my other class schedules and work schedule.

I’ve been told by most people to just be patient and wait til I get my Associates(even if I feel like I’ve been at my community college for too long), since UC in general is very expensive, having an Associate’s will make myself look good to future employers, and also because it supposedly makes it more difficult for myself to transfer all of my credits to a UC without my Associate’s. Not sure if it’s completely true about the credit transfer difficulty.

Have any suggestions for me about this?

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If I understand this correctly, you just got accepted to Arizona State University. Thus one choice is to go to ASU (a very good school) starting in September 2018. The alternative is to postpone your start at ASU in order to take a few more classes at community college to get your associates degree. Is this correct?

If you get your bachelor’s degree from ASU, then I don’t think that anyone will care that you already have an associates degree. In the very unlikely case that someone goes wrong with your classes at ASU, you could go back to finish your associates, but this seems unlikely to be needed.

Is there a significant difference in total cost between now and when you get your Bachelor’s degree either way?

If it were me, I would be pretty happy about getting accepted to ASU, and would want to get on with my Bachelor’s there.

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The only reasons to complete the AA are:
If you will save a lot of money by taking the same classes at the CC.
or
If finishing your AA means that you have fulfilled all of your gen ed requirements, and can just focus on your classes in your major. Which I guess means saving money too.