The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
Access to a college degree is critical.
Not many college students know what they want to do.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
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