When Kenroy Mejia was a senior at Bonnabel High School in Metairie last year, the honor-roll student had his choice of universities across the state.
But he settled on Delgado Community College, a two-year institution in New Orleans where he had taken a few dual enrollment courses during high school. He decided that he could commute from Metairie for a couple years, saving a lot of money on tuition and expenses, then transfer to a four-year university with college credits and work experience under his belt.
“I’m an accounting major,” he said recently. “I kind of did the math.”…