Originally Posted by ultramarina
The drop-out rate (46% fail to graduate within 6 years) is the really scary part, and IMO, is where the chipper "Everyone can go to college!" line really falls down and start to look downright irresponsible.

http://politic365.com/2013/01/24/college-dropout-rate-called-national-crisis-in-new-report/

Then there are all the creepy for-profit schools with stratospheric drop-out rates. These places are the educational equivalent of payday loans and rent-to-own. I knew someone who needed a BA to advance at work and go up a pay grade. She got one from a sketchy, weird diploma mill that turned out to not be fully accredited. Money down the drain.

I hope there is a special place in Hell for those that set people up that don't have the smarts, maturity or executive functioning to be successful in college just so they can rack up the interest payments.

The mainstream kind of 'never thinking beyond the first good looking move' liberals [read the stupid ones] will hate me for saying this but college is not for everyone. It is supposed to be a place where the brighter people go to delve more deeply into Knowledge. It shouldn't be a place where EVERYONE has to go just to get a halfway decent shot at a job.

Become what you are