<p>Lots of facts missing here.</p>
<p>The real problem is not that he went to college; rather he decided to take on a lot of debt to do it. Makes little sense in California, where the junior college system is far stronger and cheaper than in most other areas of the country. Doing well in junior college is a much more predictable route to the University system, too, in terms of admission. </p>
<p>I don’t think it helpful to pick on “lower ranked” schools (assuming this, perhaps wrongly, to be the case here). The real problem with so many of them is not their academic quality, but that they consistently admit marginal students and have them run up so much debt, with low four or five year grad rates. There is a truth in advertising problem with these kind of schools.</p>