Getting general ed requirements “out of the way” by going to a community college may be among the worst advice people could give to new students because it could result in them earning many more credits than they need, hampering their efforts to get over the four-year finish line.
As a working paper published by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College noted, previous research found that only about 60 percent of community college students were able to transfer most of their credits to the four-year institution; and another 15 percent were “hardly able to transfer any of their credits.”
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