A Cheaper Version.....

When I sit down with parent's, they are hoping I can help them find a way to send their child to college without having to mortgage EVERYTHING just to accomplish it. In the past, college really did not have an option to accomplish a degree that was legitimate at an in-expensive school but now that is not the case.
There is a movement for college classes to be taught by professors at earlier stages in the student's pursuit. Colleges like Ivy Tech, IU-Kokomo and others have been successful at offereing a more streamlined approach to a student's degree. We are also noticing student's are attending those schools for the first semester or two and knocking out some of their core classes at a much less cost per credit hour and then transferring.
I think this approach has merit, especially for those students who are not sure of what they wish to pursue or those that are sure and don't want to "waste money" on un-necessary courses they have taken in high school. With certain degrees it has become almost fashionable to apply at Ivy Tech and IU-K and the like to acheive those pursuits because it really doesn't matter so much as where you attended school as much as are you licensed, registered, board certified and the like.
One additional value of schooling like these is that you get to mature as a student! Some student's like myself did not pull a good GPA in high school and in effect were penalized for late blooming so to speak by not being accepted into the colleges of their choice. For many, this allows them to take college level courses and then transfer and have their High School transcripts hold less value then their college transcripts. Kind of a 2nd chance!
If that is your plan then I would advise you to contact Ivy Tech and get advisment on what to take and so on but also the school you are planning to transfer to and let them help you plan a set of classes to help ensure they will in fact transfer and help you instead of waste your time!

Till we speak again.....

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Jon