Should I be an ant or a grasshopper?

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5) Many wonderful students are saving a ton of money by doing their first two years at a community college then transferring those credits to university. I see a lot of that, and it makes sense. Get the gen-eds out of the way, transfer to school of choice with that savings still there to use or at least student loan borrowing power they didn't have to use at the CC. These aren't your old school community colleges (this one, in fact, was written up in a majorly major big city newspaper as a model for what CCs should be.)

Our family lives by this advise.

But transfer students need to be well-aware...
When they do transfer, there is a different world to be negotiated.

The straight-A student in high school and/or community college is sometimes lost
in the herd of 3rd and 4th year students who have already survived the weed-out processes,
and formed their more demanding "adult-level" of study habits.