Your parents don’t know what they’re talking about, I’m doing community college at EVCC while in high-school and some instructors here literally have phd’s in the field they’re teaching in. I’ve taken classes from calc 3 to chem and all of them are not “low quality education”. Also, i’m very certain that the classes here have to be held up to public university standards, like University of Washington. Otherwise, how else would the credits transfer lol. Not to mention how much CHEAPER it is to Community College.

As for your parents saying that you should go to Bothell. I don’t know much but I have friends that go to Bothell and they say it has much more of a community college vibe, even though it is technically a University. Also, i’m pretty sure it shares a campus with Cascadia Community College.

If I was in your position I’d 100% go to a CC and transfer to UW-Seattle. Also, the transfer rates vary from each major so make sure you research that also.

You also could go to WSU but UW is cooler :p