Hahaha but nah fr you bring up great points and this is the kind of discussion I’m here for ! You are right I can’t compare community college here to community college there (but also when I was referring to local schools I didn’t mean community college, I mean like actual small universities) in America you cannot get bachelor from CC, only an associate.

That survey you bring up is interesting. I had the luxury of catholic school my whole life, our public school system is terrible in inner cities such as Detroit or Milwaukee. Actually terrible isn’t even the word to describe it it’s way worse than that. People come from all over the world just to attend these small universities. In my catholic high school I had a teacher from Poland who came here to go to uni at a really small college. I found it very fascinating she would travel all the way around the world to attend a university that I wouldn’t even rank in the top 5 of my state.