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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of responses here seem focused on steering your daughter toward whatever will make the most money. If that's your/her goal, you're rolling the dice with regard to her happiness. Finding a passion is much more important. Anyone who's smart, works hard, plays nicely with others and has a passion for what they're doing will find success and happiness regardless of the field.

Suggest to her that she do careful research before registering for her first and second-year classes, focusing on taking courses taught by the best professors the school has to offer, as recommended by students who have gone before her. At least one of these teachers will ignite her passion for study in a specific field, and then her future will unfold naturally.[/quote]

Roll the dice and become a statistc for this problem
https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-crisis

This is a huge national problem in the US.
Google student debt crisis and look around.
People need to be aware of what they are getting into.
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I'm betting most folks in this forum are smart enough to not allow themselves or their kids to take on more debt than they can afford.[/quote]

Not so fast. A lot of well educated middle class folks around here still don't get it.  
They send kids to college for the sake of sending kids to college.

Some of the examples I personally konw from last year;
History at Boston Universtiy = no decent job 
Design at VCU = no decent job
Biology at UVA = no decent job
(this one planned to go to a Medical school, but failed. looking into plan B probably pharmacy or PA)

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Anecdotal evidence is not the most useful, but if you're going to use it you need more information than you've provided. The most important thing missing is how well these students did with their studies. My original post specified a student who is "smart, works hard, plays nicely with others and has a passion for what they're doing". Did these students have more A's than B's in their classes? Did they show enough enthusiasm for their major that they had strong recommendations from professors?

Also, how hard have they tried to find a job in their field? Are they only looking for online jobs b/c they're scared to be in an office due to covid? Has their preferred field been strongly affected by covid?

Etc...[/quote]

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