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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college. [/quote]

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.[/quote]

If you think I'm wrong about what I said above, I'd like to hear why.[/quote]

If you take out the 1/3 of millennials that failed out of high school (I assume inner-city and flyover trailer trash), about half of the rest have a bachelors degree.[/quote]

By the way, that's not true. According to this website, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp, only 10% of people drop of high school. That means 90% graduate high school. However, about only about 34% of people graduate from college. 34% of 90% is about 38%. So even if you were to exclude high school dropouts, only 38% of the population has a Bachelor's Degree. Even among white people, the percentage of people with Bachelor's Degree is only 40. You'll also notice that the age-range of people surveyed is 25-29 The vast majority of people who graduate college do so at 22 or younger, so if someone is 25 and doesn't have a Bachelor's Degree, it's safe to assume they'll never get one.[/quote]

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