Hi everybody. So I need some advice.
I’m planning on doing the community college to for year university route. I currently live in an area where there is a direct transfer option. As long as I take the exact classes the university lays out for me, and have a good gpa, I am guaranteed a full credit transfer and Junior status. Here’s the catch: my family is moving across the state, to an area that does not have this matriculation deal. I have to come up with a completely new schedule to match the new university’s requirements (I mean, duh of course I do, but it’s not as easy as having the whole plan laid out and locked into a piece of paper for two years). I don’t qualify for federal aid (18, medically ineligible for military service, do not match any of the other qualifications to receive indpendant aid without listing my parents’ income on the FAFSA), so I currently have a full time job to pay for school. To pay out of pocket for school (my parents cannot contribute) and maintain the work hours necessary to fund it, I have to take my classes piecemeal. The schools all run on a quarter system, so I was planning on saturating my gen eds this summer and next, and taking my major sequence classes during the regular school year. I know state flagships vary, but in general, how would a school looking at that schedule treat it? If I satisfy all the requirements and manage to do it in the typical two years, does it matter at all that I group all my “soft” classes (English, history, ect) into two summers and only take my “hard” (calculus, physics, ect; Computer Science major) during the regular school year?
Thanks!