A community college is a college that serves its community by offering general education classes toward a bachelor’s degree, 1-year and 2-year professional certificates, remedial education, enrichment for high school students and retirees… In Michigan, public CC’s articulate with the 4-year universities, so that if you show your poor HS record wasn’t a proper indication of your potential and you’re doing very well in CC, you can transfer anywhere instate your CC grades allow you to with no consideration for your HS record.
That being said, you have lots of possibilities at smaller 4-year colleges (small doesn’t mean bad - it mean they focus on a more personalized education - compare the size of private high schools to public high schools). I second Alma, Adrian, Albion, also Lebanon Valley, Lycoming, Hiram, Muskingum, Molloy, Niagara U, Keuka, Iona…