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[quote=Anonymous]I think it is closer to 37% of the country that has a four year degree.

This is very much a function of the bubble you life in. I was recently talking with my high school senior daughter and she was talking about how just one of her friends isn’t going to college but how she never ever even considered the option of not going to college. And of course the daughter of two college educated parents who goes to a FCPS school that sends 95% of kids to college will assume college as the default plan.

But contrast a friend of mine from college had a full tuition/room and board and fees scholarship to school and was the first person in her family to go to college coming from a high school that sent about 12% of kids to college.  She really struggled financial during college because she couldn’t spend the money she made on her on campus job on incidentals like the rest of us did, she had to send money home every month to help with family expenses.

Everyone else would be talking about money for ordering a pizza and getting beer, and she would be talking about waiting for the next paycheck to get shampoo.[/quote]

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