MYTH #3: No one successful goes to community college.

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i have never heard this myth. even my "more successful" friends who would probably be snooty about the the alt-credit approach all went to community college to save money on their first couple years and boost their GPAs before getting moving on to their law degrees or what have you.

Though maybe it's more normalized in CA based on the fact that our CCs are so cheap that it's just too good to pass up no matter who you are.

That's true - not many look down on CC in CA, in general because 1) cheap or even free now; 2) pretty decent teaching in most cases (and I've had really good luck, better than SJSU); and 3) ease of transfer (and guarantees) to CSU and UC's.  If you can't get into UC Davis as a freshman for instance, with their 5% admittance rate, you are guaranteed admission as a transfer student with IGETC and major pre-reqs completed and decent GPA.  You can't beat that with a stick!