<p>I used to go to a 4-year college, but (voluntarily) decided to take this semester at a community college and I can't speak for all community colleges and their students, but I have some objections to what was posted on post #18...</p>
<p>"I think that going to Community College is not the best choice, because a majority of Community College students drop out."</p>
<p>Where's the statistical data to back up this claim? Now I'm not saying that kids don't drop out of cc, but a MAJORITY (+50%). If in most of my classes, only around 20% have droppped out, I'd say the dropout rate is probably in the 20-33% range.</p>
<p>"Not to say that your sister would do that, but by staying at home, a lot of kids get distracted by life and forget about the importance of college. When you are at a 4 year university, your whole life is college."</p>
<p>WOW, obviously you have no clue what you're talking about. My friend and I are both in the same situation in that we both went off to a 4-year for 3 semesters and came back to our local cc for this semester. One of the things we have noticed is that when you live at home, you become extremely bored because all of your friends/distractions/life are off at college, hundreds of miles away. Since there isn't much to do when your a cc student in your hometown, we have noticed that we study more often than what we did at our 4-years because the opportunity cost of studying when you live at home is less than when we were at our 4-years. When you live at home, the options are pretty limited as to what you can do, where as when you're at college, it seems like there's always a better alternative to school. Basically, we feel as if we are more focused at cc because the social distractions are pracically nonexistent.</p>