Yeah the community college I went to was $49/credit hour. I transferred 54 hours to a major state university. If I had not changed my major as a junior, I would have graduated a semester early. I was able to concentrate on my major courses and work a part time job as a teaching assistant because I only took 12 hours each semester my last 4 semesters. I took interesting electives rather than having to shove gen ed classes in everywhere.

My only real regret about the path that I took is that I never got a great foundation in math and when I took calculus 1, I really struggled. I went to work right out of high school for 6 years (while taking part time college courses) so there was quite a loss of knowledge from high school onward. I took remedial math and coehe algebra so I could get a reintroduction to concepts I had forgotten and did pretty well. I then took pre-calc at my community college and we didn't discuss basic elements like limits. First day in calculus at my university we skipped right over introducing limits because it was an expectation that you already knew the concept. It was a summer class too so it was fast paced and I struggled to keep up.