Stacie Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Community college can be a springboard

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   Published on: 3/7/2004   Last Visited: 3/7/2004

   Stacie Clark has a Smith College degree. Nowhere on her diploma does it say half the credits are from a community college hundreds of miles from the prestigious women's campus in Massachusetts.
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   Clark said she got a lot out of her classes at the Community College of Allegheny County and was surprised how many credits -- about 70 -- transferred. She's happy to talk about the education she got there, but if others prefer not to advertise that their four-year degree is partly from a community college, that's fine, too.
   
   "It's like this little secret you have," said Clark, 27, who works in the accounting office of a South Side wholesaler, Galaxy Music Distributors.

2. 2. Community college can be a springboard

   www.postgazette.com/pg/04067/2 - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/7/2004   Last Visited: 3/7/2004

   Stacie Clark has a Smith College degree. Nowhere on her diploma does it say half the credits are from a community college hundreds of miles from the prestigious women's campus in Massachusetts.
   ...
   Clark said she got a lot out of her classes at the Community College of Allegheny County and was surprised how many credits -- about 70 -- transferred. She's happy to talk about the education she got there, but if others prefer not to advertise that their four-year degree is partly from a community college, that's fine, too.
   
   "It's like this little secret you have," said Clark, 27, who works in the accounting office of a South Side wholesaler, Galaxy Music Distributors.

3. 3. InsideBaltimore.com

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   Published on: 3/9/2004   Last Visited: 3/9/2004

   - Stacie Clark has a Smith College degree. Nowhere on her diploma does it say half the credits are from a community college hundreds of miles from the prestigious women's campus in Massachusetts.
   
   Yet that's exactly how she did it, saving $58,000 in two years by staying close to home. It's given her a degree with more cachet than those held by many of her peers, who went deeper into debt by spending all four years at lesser-known universities.
   
   Clark said she got a lot out of her classes at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania and was surprised how many credits - about 70 - transferred. She's happy to talk about the education she got there, but if others prefer not to advertise that their four-year degree is partly from a community college, that's fine, too.
   
   "It's like this little secret you have," said Clark, 27, who works in the accounting office Galaxy Music Distributors in Pittsburgh.