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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Several of my uncles did not go to college. One of them (who is actually just a few years older than me) married a woman who did not graduate from college. They are lovely people but they've really struggled financially. They've never had any real intellectual interests or pursuits and did not provide a rich learning environment for their kids. But they did the best they could by their kids and tried to support their interests. Their older son struggled in high school, started community college but dropped out, and now, in his late 20s, appears to support himself as a small-time drug dealer. Not a success story.

But their younger son was good in math. Really good. My uncle and aunt had no way to help him. Once he got to algebra, they couldn't help with homework. He went to a pretty crappy high school with not many opportunities to pursue advanced math. They could not afford tutors and knew nothing of SAT prep. But he had decent grades and solid SAT scores. He went to community college for 2 years and then was accepted to a decent college (ranked in the 50s on the USNWR university list) and got some financial aid. He lived at home all through college, and he and his parents worked their butts off to pay for it.

Last spring he was accepted to a fully funded Ph.D. program. At MIT.

I'm guessing he's pretty happy no one decided he was washed up at 18.[/quote]

Great story, but literally 1 in a million - an outlier. 9 out of 10 from this background end up more like the oldest.[/quote]

Do you really believe that most people who don't have college degrees are drug dealers? [/quote]

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