<p>Why go to college? To be given the chance to lead a financially comfortable life. Without a BA, I couldn’t get a JD. And a JD from a top school provides an exceptionally lucrative career path. </p>
<p>Now, obviously there were many other factors influencing where I chose to enroll that had nothing to do with long term earning potential. But really, if I would be making the same amount of money in the long term, there’s no way I’d delay the start of life with several extra years of irrelevant education. After all, I’m a Political Science major. And I really don’t expect my knowledge of anarchy in Africa or the illegal creation of Kosovo to matter in my line of work. Sure, they interest me, hence the choice in major. And I can still get into law school with such a useless set of knowledge. But is it really worth the four years of undergraduate studies? If not for monetary considerations, I’d say it wasn’t.</p>