re: If you are a freshman, why spend the money on a large University?

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Can you take time off with TOPS?

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You can if it is your first year. One of mine went out of state for freshman year, then came back to LSU. Got his 4 years of TOPS, and fortunately, graduated in 'only' 5 years. Not sure if you can skip mid-stream, but as long as you start within a year of the first fall after h.s. graduation, you are good.

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For most of the highly qualified freshman, college freshman courses are a waste of time.

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Well technically the high quality Freshman that walk on to a college campus are probably not real Freshman at all because they took all of those classes while still in high school.

I told my son that if there ever was a chance to get a hall pass of sorts from me was that if he busted his arse to get all his Freshman stuff out of the way early, he could do the dumb shite typical Freshman guys do like join a Fraternity and chase sorority sluts.

You might want to ask this to HS students.

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Can you, with a straight face, say the average freshman classes at a CC are remotely near as rigorous as the same ones at a flagship state school not to mention top universities. For most of the highly qualified freshman, CC would be a complete waste of time.

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I can, as a adjunct instructor that has taught calculus I and II, at a couple of large universities and several community colleges, the material I use, and the exams are exactly the same. Any student that successfully completes the material in my courses would be a able to move to any university, and be adequately prepared to continue the math course sequence.