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<p>I certainly hope the community college route was not serious. The community college route is a very viable route for a lot of people but, with the stats you have posted, there are 4 year universities out there that are going to be very affordable for you and provide a much more intellectually stimulating environment than a CC.</p>
<p>For your safeties, forget about the prestige and focus on finding schools with strong engineering programs that also have a variety of other programs if you decide not to do engineering.</p>