<p>This is the scenario for many students where I live. Out of high school, you can attend a public, huge and good school, or about 4 smaller private schools. Anything else is far away or out of state.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands apply for that one school, who with budget cuts, can’t accept everyone.</p>
<p>Choosing to go to a CC just 15min away, one who got denied will study hard for two years and apply again as a transfer. (an alma mater for some)</p>
<p>There’s an even more fierce competition to snatch the few seats of leaving undergrads from the big university, so CC kids prep hard.</p>