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<p>Many colleges disqualify you from frosh admission if you have any college credit, or more than a certain amount of college credit, after high school graduation. Check each college’s web site for its rules. For such colleges, you would have to start at community college and then apply as a transfer student. This is not necessarily a bad option, as community college can be less expensive, and a good record at community college may give you more options of colleges to transfer to than you have as a frosh applicant based on your high school record, if you high school record is not that great.</p>
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<p>Florida A&M also appears to cost less, and may have more scholarship availability – i.e. a potentially cheaper way to get the same engineering education as at Florida State.</p>