<p>Not news here at all. It’s a quite common strategy around here for families to send their kids to the local comm college for 2 years with the goal of transferring into our state flagship, which is well regarded and will pretty much get them anyplace they’ll ever want to go (except for Wall Street, to fend off the inevitable “but they’ll never work for Goldman Sachs!” crowd - as if most people care). At the neighboring more-affluent school district, rumor had it that quite a lot of families were now employing this strategy (especially if they had several kids close together). </p>
<p>Can’t say it’s a bad strategy if the kid can stay motivated.<br>
Our local comm college is a decent place and they offer a lot for the money.</p>