Three years out of high school and a little confused about my options.

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<p>Hello, everybody! So, i am new to the forum and wanted to start off with a pretty basic question. First, a little background on myself. I graduated from high school class of 2011 and really didnt do nearly as well as I should have in school. I did pass all of my classes and completed all of my A-G requirements to be accepted into a university. Although, my GPA suffered at somewhere around 2.7-2.8 cummulative. So after high school I attended UTI, an automotive trade school in my area. I made the best of that and graduated with a 3.9 GPA and now currently work as an automotive technician at a Mercedes Benz dealership. Shortly after being hired there I made the realization that it is not what I want to do with my life so I enrolled myself into my local community college with the ultimate goal of tranferring to a 4-year university.</p>

<p>At this this point, I plan to major in business and hopefully get as far as an MBA. So my question is, provided I do a great job in community college, how realistic would it be to have a goal of reaching one of the more difficult schools in my area such as USC or even UCLA?</p>

<p>Also, if anybody has any expirience with this particular situation, from the time of transfer from a CC to recieving a bachelor's, roughly how long should I be looking at/preparing for considering i will be working a full time, morning to afternoon, mon-fri job? I understand there are a lot of factors in this answer but i'm just hoping for a few expirienced opinions because as of now, i truly have no clue what to expect as far as part time goes.</p>

<p>Thank you so much in advance for any replies! :)>-
-Cody</p>

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<p>Great Question and interesting situation can’t wait to see the answers myself </p>

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<p>Your chances are very high if you keep your GPA up. I went to community college first before transferring to a 4 year. The people at CC will be in the same boat as you. Plenty of students that go to CC are typically not what you call “traditional students” meaning not fresh out of high school. Most of CC students have full time jobs, families, single parent, married, etc. Although at the time I was traditional student (I attended CC ages 17-21) I have had many non traditional student friends that attended school part time and make pretty decent grades! Some of them even made deans list! I believe they do a lot better than traditional students because you are serious about school, not partying it up and wasting time. Since you’ll be working M-F (9-5?) you’ll more than likely take night classes, so you’ll meet plenty of people like you since most full time 9-5 workers take night or online classes. As long as you keep your grades up you will definitely have a chance as the 4 year colleges you picked. Most of them are quick to accept transfers in anyway. Since you’re part time it may take a little while to get the degree. But hey that really shouldn’t matter you’re working up to something great! It’ll be in no time that you’re finished. If you have any questions feel free to ask me!</p>