Do you think college is overated?

Question

When did it become success for a person to go to college tell there like 26 living with there parents, not get a job and then "kinda go to grad school" tell there like 30. Less than 40 percent of 4 year college students go on to graduate.

Answer 1

Not if you're actually there to learn something. I'll finish college when I'm 22, and since I plan to go into biology research, I'll go on to grad school after that, during which time I'll be getting payed. Somehow I don't forsee ending up living with my parents when I'm 26 given that I can already get payed to do research over the summer and I'm only 19. If I'm not earning a graduate stipend within a few months of graduating, it'll be because I've failed at that, so I hardly see living with one's parents at the age of 26 as successful.

I don't know anyone who considers living with your parents at the age of 26 to be indicative of success. Going to college doesn't mean you're inherently successful, but I hardly see how that means that people shouldn't bother to go to college if they actually want to do something with their life.

Answer 2

for 1 there is a thing called internships where you get a job during college....... 2. You usually graduate when you are 22-24 and you don't have to go to grad school to be succsessful. You obviously have no clue about college life.

Answer 3

I'm finding it funny that all the replies from people who say college is overrated contain spelling mistakes!
I went for my own personal desire to learn. And I worked full-time the whole way through.
I agree you need real-world experience so only being a college student is not something I'd recommend.
I am so grateful for the opportunity I had and look forward to continuing my studies through short courses in the future.

Answer 4

No, I think it's underrated. Or, the better word is, misunderstood. People think college will be like the movies and they get there and realize it's school. So, they don't know what to do. But, college is extremely important not only to increase knowledge and build skills but also just to open your world view and expand your horizons. It's not for everyone, I'll give you that, but as an experience it cannot be overrated.

Answer 5

I think it's a matter of relativity. Some degrees are just plain worthless, and in this day the Bachelors degree is becoming like the high school diploma. I know many college graduates who are struggling and working in dead end jobs.

Answer 6

I totally agree with you there.....almost every person i have known that has went to college has either dropped out and waisted all that money their parents spent on them, or has post-poned thier return to school for some job that they would like to work at, that would make them MORE money than the job they were originally going to go to school for. School just isnt for everyone. School is for rich kids that have nothing better to do with their time nor thier parents money, than to blow it on meaningless things and brag about how intelligent they look for being in college until their 30 yrs old. *giggles* I personally am not impressed by someone that says they are going to college anymore. It doesnt mean a thing until you actually have that piece of paper in your hand saying your a graduate, and you actually have a job that you work at making lots of money compaired to "regular" jobs with no college degree needed. A middle class person would actually be doing better in life to go on and get a regular job and work their way up to managment or go to a trade school or join the armed forces than to waste money on college....unless of course you get a grant because you are very intelligent and you have a bigger plan than to just stay in college your whole life.

Answer 7

i think of rather everyone seems to be lacking the factor. BC is a college the place they actually take lecturers heavily. At LSU maximum regularly occurring pupils, are no longer able to spell LSU. (i attempt to tell LSU grads i comprehend to purely sound it out yet you could no longer restore stupid.) the educational standards for many huge courses are a shaggy dog tale. besides to having stringent educational standards they have the misfortune of being geographically placed in frigid New England the place no gifted dumb athlete in SEC us of a could ever come to play (and whether the had to it may be impossible considering that they might no longer detect Boston on a map ala Channing Crowder), inspite of all of those equipped in detrimental aspects, BC competes twelve months in and twelve months out. having the flexibility to upward push to variety 2 interior the country without comprimising educational integrity is a lots extra desirable accomplishment than a perennial contender with student-athletes who're athletes first and scholars hardly. i'm pleased with BC for doing it the astonishing way yet once you prefer to knock them circulate forward. If i replaced into keen on LSU i could too. in the experience that your no longer the perfect on the soccer field, what else could there be to hold your hat on?

Answer 8

My mother had the highest education of anyone in her family, she went half way thru' 9th grade before going to work. Once the older sister and brothers could read, write and 'number' (basic arithmetic), they went to work and support the family. My sister graduated thru' High School and I went to college. A college degree these days is like my sister's graduating from High School - in 1948. More and more education is necessary in today's' world. So, YES! it is.

Answer 9

Richard Branson, Ross Perot, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Fred Smith. All wealthy beyond immagine and which one graduated college???

Answer 10

College is not overrated. You will be able to find a higher-paying job sooner with that degree. If you can make it work, go.