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Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by maxerickson on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:30AM (#16786002)
Every community college system will seek to make their credits as transferable as possible, it makes the schools vastly more attractive.

The 4 year places generally impose limits on how many credits they will recognize from a transfer, for the obvious reasons, they want their cut and they don't want to be a rubber stamp for some other program.

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Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by paulie_a on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:39AM (#16786029)
I found out that limit is not very stringent if you are older with a good GPA, the admissions person will play fast and loose with the definitions and just to get you enrolled.
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Re:Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Coll... by jdavis703 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @10:35AM (#16786248)
It also helps to be in a state that values their junior colleges. In Virgina the community college systems have a standardized set of classes, and deals with mant state universities where virtually all the credits transfer over. I only had one class I had to take over again, and looking back the version taught at my junior college really was quite different.
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