<p>Wow, and the average NBA player makes more than the average doctor. PARENTS: get your kids out of school and onto the basketball court! We should be comparing vertical leaps, not SATs!</p>
<p>Fascinating. I live in CA and have never heard "Gue" in conversation, including among the HS students I am around a lot.</p>
<p>Aries, the boom in college enrollment is not uniform. </p>
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Total minority enrollment at the nation's colleges and universities surged by 122 percent over the past 20 years, up from nearly 2 million in 1980-81 to 4.3 million in 2000-01. Despite this significant gain, African Americans and Hispanics continue to lag behind their white counterparts in the percentage of college-age, high school graduates enrolled in college. These are just two key findings from the 20th anniversary Minorities in Higher Education Annual Status Report released today by the American Council on Education (ACE).</p>
<p>Although the rising enrollment numbers for students of color are encouraging, the gap among college participation rates for white, African-American, and Hispanic high school graduates has widened. In 1978-80, the college participation rate for all races was about 30 percent. However, in 1998-2000, the college participation rate of 18- to 24-year-old white high school graduates was 46 percent, compared with 40 percent of African Americans and 34 percent of Hispanics. Source <a href="http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=3719%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=3719
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<p>The issue of dropout among hispanics -as an example- is a true problem that is exacerbated by the fact that the immigrants from Central and South America are even less educated than the earlier waves of mostly illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>Some of them, like Steve Jobs, dropped out BECAUSE they were already involved in their own businesses. They didn't drop out, do nothing, and get rich. They were on their way - let's face it, inventing the Personal Computer is a greater aachievement than taking aother chemistry course. However, most people are not geniuses in their fields, and a college edcuaton and degree help. What the list does tell you is that you certainly don't need to go to HYP to be successful.</p>
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xiggi-More likely to hear French slang here than Spanish! CC is uniting our cultures!
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<p>Okay, I have to reply to this, Salut, mes potes!</p>
<p>Catherine, not that it changes much of the meaning of your post, but Jobs did not drop out because of his nascent business. See his Stanford speech:</p>
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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. </p>
<p>The first story is about connecting the dots. </p>
<p>I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? .... So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. </p>
<p>It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. ...</p>
<p>None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. </p>
<p>Source <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html%5B/url%5D">http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html</a>
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<p>This just in: The 25,000,000 poorest Americans never went to college.</p>
<p>"How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates" </p>
<p><a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/%5B/url%5D">http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/</a></p>