<p>Part of the article says:
* Most colleges are organized to give an average education to average students. Pick up any college brochure or catalog. Delete the brand names and the map. Can you tell which school it is?</p>
<pre><code>* College has gotten expensive far faster than wages have gone up. As a result, there are millions of people in very serious debt, debt so big it might take decades to repay. Word gets around.
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<li><p>The definition of ‘best’ is under siege. Why do colleges send millions (!) of undifferentiated pieces of junk mail to high school students now?… Biggest reason: So the schools can reject more applicants. The more applicants they reject, the higher they rank in US News and other rankings. Why bother making your education more useful if you can more easily make it appear to be more useful?</p>
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<li>The correlation between a typical college degree and success is suspect. College wasn’t originally designed to merely be a continuation of high school (but with more binge drinking). In many places, though, that’s what it has become.</li>
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<li><p>Accreditation isn’t the solution, it’s the problem. A lot of these ills are the result of uniform accreditation programs that have pushed high-cost, low-reward policies on institutions and rewarded schools that churn out young wanna-be professors instead of experiences that turn out leaders and problem-solvers.</p></li>
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<p>I go to college because what else am i gonna do? If you don’t have a degree they don’t pay you ****. If you wanna go work at Mc Donalds or something you can say screw college but otherwise your only choice is college.</p>
<p>also college is the easiest place to get chicks. you cant nail 3-4 chicks a week at anywhere other than college. so thats a plus. actually thats the only reason why i like college.</p>
<p>Comparing growth rate of college tuition to growth rate of average wages is meaningless.</p>
<p>The return to college (present value of average college graduate’s wages over a lifetime compared to a high school graduate’s lifetime wages) has gone up over time. Divide that by the cost of tuition and you have the number you want: the return to the cost of college.</p>
<p>The author’s points read like a series of unrelated sentences. Maybe she thinks faster than she writes but she is leaving out too much of her intermediate thought process for me to be able to follow what she is saying. Four out of the five bullet points are actually two unrelated points.</p>
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<p>The first point is that the education one receives at a college is average. The second is that you can’t tell one school from another. These are two different points.</p>
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<p>The first point has something to do with the notion of “best”. Then she starts talking about junk mail.</p>
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<p>Her first point is that some people are successful without a college degree. The second is that college is a continuation of high school. Once again, these points are unrelated, the first has always been true, the second is an opinion.</p>
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<p>First she is talking about accreditation. Then she is talking about wanna-be professors.</p>
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<p>At least the fifth bullet point sticks to the same topic, (college debt), but it is unrelated to the original assertion that college is a waste of time.</p>
<p>The author either does speed or has drunken too much coffee.</p>
<p>“I go to college because what else am i gonna do? If you don’t have a degree they don’t pay you ****. If you wanna go work at Mc Donalds or something you can say screw college but otherwise your only choice is college.”</p>
<p>In other countries (Germany for example), only a small percentage of the population goes to university after school. You can get wonderful jobs and earn a good amount of money without college education because the secondary school system is better.</p>
<p>I’m just saying, it’s something to think about. In the USA, where you really NEED college education to get anywhere in life you have to pay huge amounts of money for it, while in other countries where you don’t really need it, it costs practially nothing. I find that there is something wrong with this picture.</p>
<p>Oh, so importing black people from Africa to hold as slaves was a good thing then? Or killing MILLIONS of innocent people in Korea and Vietnam? This really isn’t the place for this JanofLeiden. Nor are your remarks anywhere near appropriate. It’s funny how everyone blames Germany, but the terrible parts of American history are totally irrelevant. BTW, I am American.</p>
<p>And I’d also just like to point out again that Jan van Leiden lived in Germany for a large period of his life.</p>
<p>I used to think most people should go to college, however I have changed my mind. </p>
<p>I have realized that many people waste their money on a useless degree. BA in Anthropology! Freaking A what are you going to do with that? I know many people who have $70K in loans and ended up going back to school for massage, or to be a hairstylist. </p>
<p>The hairstylist and the massage therapist are both doing very well in their professions, but I think they wasted time and money getting a degree. If they had just gone to a technical school they would have been in the working world earlier making instead of spending it on a useless degree.</p>