What is so bad about "Community Colleges" or "State Colleges"...?

<p>Thank you for that last reply, I have a few years yet, son is only going to 10th grade, I just am thinking ahead, getting worried about what we’ll be facing in a few years. I keep telling him he could go out of state–live on Campus, whatever all this entails, and he wants no part of it–right now. He is also VERY SHY & quiet, he will not get into the Faternity stuff, he doesnt drink or anything. He really does suck at writing and essays though and these Big Private colleges (like Grove City), I know from talking around, you almost have to be a genius to get in there. Geneva, the Christian College, is also known for all the essays. That is when he figured he might as well just go for Slippery ROck State college. My other boys are 7 yrs younger than him, so they won’t be doing the college thing for awhile.</p>