<p>I live in an area where there are so many low cost state and cc alternatives that are very good, that they should get serious consideration. A lot of them are not slam dunks for admissions either. I used to live somewhere that had the most beautiful new CC facility that offered dog poop in terms of courses. You could spend 5 years there trying to get enough credits to be a junior. You really had to learn the system and get downright nasty and go to branch campuses as far as 45 minutes away to get some basic solid LA courses. On paper they looked good, until you tried to sign up for anything. So to say YMMV is really an understatement. I’d love to see all states have the accessibility to good quality CC courses that would have databases like Maryland’s–that I don’t think we have in NY. </p>
<p>I will say, however, that my kids got full credit for some CC summer courses here at even top 25 universities. But, again, this is here.</p>
<p>Happymom, my DH is from the Eastern Shore of MD and the only game in town there for some of the backwater towns there seems to be Chesapeake College which is sometimes over an hour away for students in terms of commute with no mass transit options. It can be tough for someone living out there on Hoopers Island and other such locales to get an inexpensive college education commuting.</p>