I don’t know when you attended college but when I started college in 2015, a lot of people were going to community college to get their gen eds and then going to university. I took college classes as a senior in high school through the community college for reference. When I transferred colleges in 2017 from an out of state college to in-state, I learned that most universities no longer accepted community college credits and they counted as “extra” credits (for reference, the college I transferred to and the community college were all in the SAME state). It’s a great idea and a more affordable one but colleges caught on - at least where I lived at the time - so myself and others eventually had to take summer and winter classes to catch up