I started out at community college and screwed around a lot my first year or two. I got it together my third year and spent the next three years in CC getting my grades up high enough to transfer to a four year school. I got into a well respected state schools program for non traditional students, and I love the program but they don’t offer the degree that I wanted and am stuck settling for a liberal arts degree in “social sciences”. It doesn’t phase me too much because I want to eventually go to grad school, and it won’t matter what my undergrad degree is in to apply. There’s another prestigious school in my state however who has a top 20 program in the field I want, and I talked to admissions there today and asked if I’d be able to transfer at this point seeing I will be done with my social sciences degree in only a year. They said I could transfer some of the credits, but in order to obtain the degree I want, I’d have to take at least sixty credits, which means an extra two years in school. Would this be worth the extra time, and money to get a degree that I want? Or could I wait till grad school for that?
If it were me, I’d just get the degree you’re on track for and then head to grad school. Two more years of college means two more years of college debt-plus, a master’s will open more doors for you anyway.
Dessie, thanks for the response. That’s what I was thinking myself. The extra two years doesn’t bother me as much as the extra cost. Especially if I want to go to grad school anyway.