<p>Students, teachers, school/college administrators and parents in Virginia are not use to the idea of going from a community college to an elite university. But it has been at the core of California education, and it has been a highly successful structure. It provides almost unlimited opportunities for students, rich or poor, who are interested in getting a top-flight education without worrying about vague notions of whether they are getting “valuable experiences” that you can only get at a four year residential college. The experience you get at a community college is merely different, not any better or worse, than you get at a four-year residential college. At the end of the whole process, Datkid, you will have the same University of Virginia degree that every other student receives who fulfills the requirements mandated by the dean of undergraduate students of the university of Virginia. (BTW Datkid, my guess is that you will be able to ace the requirements for UVA even if they made them more stringent).</p>