Pivoting to a Four Year College

Little Kat is getting close to the end of his Associates Degree program at his community college. Momoko, Little Kat, and I have been researching what he should do next. He could do an apprenticeship through his college. He could jump to another community college that has better programs. He could get some credentials like a certificate and then get a job immediately. Or he could transfer to a four year college.

Today we made some progress figuring out the four year college path. Last night, Little spent the night at our house. He had scheduled a call today with one of the local state schools. We were specifically talking to the person who deals with community college transfers at this four year college.

Little Kat and I went out and picked up some Chinese food for lunch. Then we rehearsed how we though the call would go. We had to have him practice many times until he could communicate his situation and the questions we had for the four year college.

Pretty much we want to know if Little Kat actually needs to get an associates degree, or whether he can jump to the four year college now. The program he wants to enter says that transfer students need an associates degree in computer technology (or related) in order to get into the program. We wanted to know if Little Kat could bypass that.

The call went well. We had some positive surprises. The person from the four year college sold their school to us. Now we need to finalize what courses Little Kat will take next semester at his community college. This might be his last semester there.