How much do you think college truly influences the trajectory of someone's life?

[Anonymous]

Everyone should go to college, if at all (financially) possible. Do whatever afterwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should go to college, if at all (financially) possible. Do whatever afterwards.

Lol no. There were kids in Algebra I in SENIOR YEAR at my high school. You think they should’ve gone to college? It would have been a gigantic waste of money they didn’t have. Not to mention the opportunity cost of spending 4 years in college only to be unemployable afterwards because you got terrible grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure, happens sometimes. For example, here's a young lady whose life was wrecked by going to Emory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/education/poor-students-struggle-as-class-plays-a-greater-role-in-success.html

TLDR - don't let your child be on the bottom end of of the SAT distribution at a college, and the more serious the emotional or socioeconomic challenges, the more important it is to be in the top decile.

Poor kids struggle at any college. The poorest kids overall have a <10% chance of graduating anywhere they go.

What end of Harvard was Jared Kushner's SAT score? The absolute very bottom. Still graduated on time.

Harvard has a 98% graduation rate. There are certainly some very poor kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should go to college, if at all (financially) possible. Do whatever afterwards.

Lol no. There were kids in Algebra I in SENIOR YEAR at my high school. You think they should’ve gone to college? It would have been a gigantic waste of money they didn’t have. Not to mention the opportunity cost of spending 4 years in college only to be unemployable afterwards because you got terrible grades.

College doesn't have to be a traditional 4-year program. There's community college for a 2-year degree. Plus lots of technical schooling.

It cracks me up how this area sticks its nose up at the technical trades while constantly asking for recs on good trade skilled labor.

Moreover, weird flex bragging about how you went to a school that clearly failed many students academically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should go to college, if at all (financially) possible. Do whatever afterwards.

Lol no. There were kids in Algebra I in SENIOR YEAR at my high school. You think they should’ve gone to college? It would have been a gigantic waste of money they didn’t have. Not to mention the opportunity cost of spending 4 years in college only to be unemployable afterwards because you got terrible grades.

College doesn't have to be a traditional 4-year program. There's community college for a 2-year degree. Plus lots of technical schooling.

It cracks me up how this area sticks its nose up at the technical trades while constantly asking for recs on good trade skilled labor.

Moreover, weird flex bragging about how you went to a school that clearly failed many students academically.

When pp said college I assumed they meant 4-year. They should have specified if they didn’t mean that.

And I wasn’t “bragging” or “flexing,” lol. I was stated my experience because some people on here live in a bubble.