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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The U.S. college system is the late bloomer's dream.  It provides for second, third, and more chances.  In most other countries, you are put on the college track early and if you don't make it then it's almost impossible to get on it later.[/quote]

This was absolutely my situation.  Daughter of working class immigrants who was never encouraged to go to college and went to a blue-collar high school where only about 5% of my class went to college.  I was a terrible student in high school, and my mother pushed to get a job and get married at 18 and that's what I did (well, married at 23).  After working for ten years and a divorce, I hated my dead-end job and started taking classes at my local university.  Long story short - I had an amazing counselor who helped me get into a degree program full-time with scholarships, and I graduated summa cum laude and started a new career.  Ended up starting my own company at 40 and am very successful.

My DH is from Asia where this could have NEVER happened. He crawled his way to grad school in the US because that was the ticket to a successful career where he was from.  Now we can give our children a first class education that I could have never dreamed of.

Whatever you say about US universities - this is an amazing thing.[/quote]

PP--thanks for your most inspiring story.

I think this is one of the greatest things about America.  No matter how much we bash ourselves it truly is an amazing thing the extent to which people here can fail, fail and then succeed or can re-invent themselves totally.[/quote]
That was before. Ethics have gone out the door.[/quote]

Before what?  It's been this way for a long time and still is.  What does ethics have to do with it?[/quote]

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