I know exactly what you mean. There's this guy I know who added me on myspace back when I had one, and he told me he was a DREAMer and he had graduated hs a year before me, and told me he wanted to go to college and even enrolled for a class which was around 300 dollars for a 3 unit class. That was during that summer, then when i was enrolling for two classes (part time) he told me he had to drop them because he didn't have money to pay for them. Before this he said he had managed to get a landscape job with his brother where he would get paid around 200 dollars per day, then I started to wonder how the heck he did not have money to pay for his school. I asked him and he told me that his parents didn't support his education and blah blah but he still lived with them and didn't pay any rent or contributed with the expenses (I imagined since he didn't have money to pay for school, most of the money he made through the landscape job went to rent and family expenses) but no, he spent most of it on new clothes, and new cellphones and more clothes. I was mad at the fact that he kept bitc*ing about how he didn't have money for school and he was quit "the victim" but he had money for clothes and an iPhone? Then he told me I was lucky because my parents paid for my education--but i told him that even if they didn't, i would've saved that money for college. I mean, 300 dollars is not that much, especially when you are making like 200 dollars for gig. You can just save the college tuition part, and you can just spend the rest on it.
So yes, at least try to go a CC people, because how do you plan to be benefited by the DREAM act if you haven't even completed the biggest and most notorious requirement!