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<p>Specific community college courses are supposed to be equivalent to freshman and sophomore level courses at UCs and CSUs (see [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) ); this is necessary in order to allow the community college to UC or CSU transfer route to work as intended.</p>
<p>This could mean that a student who is not advanced enough to be taking junior or senior level courses as a freshman or sophomore (which can be done at a UC or CSU but not a community college) may find going to community college and then transferring to UC or CSU to be a good way to get a good bachelor’s degree education for less money. This may be especially true for a very undecided student, since four year schools have more institutional and financial pressure on students to decide in their second year.</p>