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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is the only purpose of college to get a high paying career? Not to be a well educated person? You realize that’s the purpose of Columbia’s Core right? [/quote]

We are not independently wealthy. The main purpose of college for all but the 1% is to get a stable high paying job after graduation (or get into law school or med school). Frankly, we chose Columbia in spite of the Core — colossal waste of time making my kid take useless classes like Art History or African Lit. [/quote]

Your kid needed to go to a state school amongst other strivers.  The Ivies have a strong mix of slackers, legacies & other coasters. Those people have social capital that helps them in addition to their college degree.
The Core Curriculum is about becoming a critical thinker.  If that is not important, then a state school with vocational direction is the straight path to a guaranteed profession.

I knew an Asian woman who went to a decent school and majored in a licensed profession.  But she lacked any sort of depth and passion for the work.  Shoot, she lacked depth period - her goal in life was to get married. In her mid-40s now, she should have been senior level in any firm, but instead she can't find a job - because again, at her age she should have built something up.  She is still "married" but only on paper.  Her husband split from her years ago but they still get together for Chinese New Year to visit their parents in order to save face and not let anybody know the marriage is essentially a failed sham.
That's the outcome of people who are invested in only the surface "accomplishments".  Maybe if she had the Core Curriculum she would have approached her profession with self-awareness of what she can contribute and get out of it.[/quote]

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