I won’t completely echo what everyone here has already said, but they are all pretty damn right.

I graduated HS in 2016 with a 2.5 GPA and 34 ACT. I went to a CC down the road for two years after that and completed my core-reqs for an associates-transfer degree (specific to Oregon but I’m sure other states are similar).

At that point, HS failures didn’t matter anymore and I’d built a strong enough college transcript to be automatically accepted to my top-choice school. By the time of my senior year, CC experience had helped me identify exactly how I learned and the type of research that I was actually interested in.

I just finished my first semester of law school and I have not met a single person that has cared about my attending a CC. In fact, I was often told by people in undergrad that if they could start college over again they would choose CC first for the costs alone.