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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an AC who chose to start a business in the tech sphere straight out of HS. On the one hand I'm sad about it, because I value education for much more than career prep. I also think that college is such a special time and if you start several years later, it is a totally different experience. On the other, he's making a lot of money and is enjoying himself immensely. I hope that he will go back to school eventually, but that's not for me to talk about anymore.

He was born wanting independence. He's living his dream and I am just (silently) a bit behind in feeling the joy of that.[/quote]

I grew up in a country where college experience was rarely anything special (only if you went to one of the few select colleges in the capital of the country). The rest were (and I think still are) commuter schools where young people do socialize but you can go to one city college and be friends with people at another.

I think the whole hoolabaloo about the college experience in the U.S. is winding down, unless you are at like Harvard or something. More and more decent kids aren’t stellar enough or don’t get enough financial aid to go the proper college route and end up at CCs and commuter schools, so college experience is not some rite of passage anymore.

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Yes, I am only half American and understand the different experience. My son is American, the American half of our family has mostly attended a college that is small and the traditional experience continues. It isn't that he could not get in, he chose not to go. He is successful in his business and happy. I wish he hadn't given up the opportunity he had but it's his choice.[/quote]

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