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infinite monkey · 01-11-2015, 02:03 PM

You can get a lot of trade training at your local JVS/Adult Division. HVAC, nursing, Tooling and Machining, Business and Medical Office.

The problem, as I see it, is the proprietary (for profits...your Miami Jacobs and the like) schools charging an arm and a leg for credits that will never transfer to a 4 year (say, if someone wants to go on after getting their LPN.)

I am under the impression that this free college IS for community colleges, and probably would also apply to Adult Ed at the JVS. Are there a lot of people in CC who have no business in college? Damn straight, but it's the lure of the low cost, being reimbursed for any Pell grant you didn't use, and the ability to use the ever-wily Cost Of Education to get federal backed student loans (with default rates through the roof)...it's the lure of the money. How about 'so, hey, you really want to go to CC to better yourself? Great, tuition and books are covered. No, you're not going to have extra loan money to buy a big screen. Still interested?'

It's not going to have much to do with your more elite schools; very few students, if any, get an associates from their CC then transfer to an Ivy League school.

01-11-2015, 02:03 PM	#10
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	You can get a lot of trade training at your local JVS/Adult Division. HVAC, nursing, Tooling and Machining, Business and Medical Office. The problem, as I see it, is the proprietary (for profits...your Miami Jacobs and the like) schools charging an arm and a leg for credits that will never transfer to a 4 year (say, if someone wants to go on after getting their LPN.) I am under the impression that this free college IS for community colleges, and probably would also apply to Adult Ed at the JVS. Are there a lot of people in CC who have no business in college? Damn straight, but it's the lure of the low cost, being reimbursed for any Pell grant you didn't use, and the ability to use the ever-wily Cost Of Education to get federal backed student loans (with default rates through the roof)...it's the lure of the money. How about 'so, hey, you really want to go to CC to better yourself? Great, tuition and books are covered. No, you're not going to have extra loan money to buy a big screen. Still interested?' It's not going to have much to do with your more elite schools; very few students, if any, get an associates from their CC then transfer to an Ivy League school.