You can go to a community college for much less money and all kids aren't required to go to College to earn a good living.
This is just silly.
This is just silly.
Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of ten million wealthy upper middle class parents simultaneously recoiling in horror.
But seriously, parents that do these sorts of things have spent the last 20 years of their life ensuring their kids stay on the maximum-privilege track, and they're not going to quit now.
I went to a community college during high school, and this seems like the stigma is the reason why more people don't do dual enrollment.
But having smart kids is the crowning achievement for these parents. I feel terribly sorry for kids caught in the middle of all of it.
I went to Stanford, but my parents didn't give a damn about any of that. Get this -- they taught me to value knowledge and a good work ethic, and I got in because I was really good at standardized tests.
However, I don't think it's been a big benefit for me because I wasn't a top student there, and I got off the hyper-achievement train early on in my twenties. I probably would have been just as okay professionally if I had taken that full scholarship to Texas A&M that I got through my standardized test-taking ability.
I wish I was the smart kid. It's not like I even got a full ride!
She enrolled at a highly rated local community college and signed up for some difficult classes and she was very much not impressed: the pace of instruction was very slow, the students unmotivated (not doing homework, not participating during class), and the overall level of instruction often easier than what she had in high school.
It’s an excellent way to get some garden variety general courses off you plate at low cost and low effort, but, in her case, it was not a substitution of the real thing.
During finals of Spanish 103, we had to make some small conversation. Some students couldn’t string 4 words together.
At the end of the test, the teacher says “you all get an A” and that was that.
WOW, the classes were so much easier than what I would expect from high school classes. It was honestly shocking they were giving out college credit.
Most likely I just got lucky. My main point is that anecdata isn't very good data.
Yeeeeeah, right.
Signed, PhD working in the industry.
Source: I did one year of community college before transferring into the computer & electrical engineering program at a university.
Community colleges often have CS programs, they don't just offer GE.
They may not have equivalents for all of the courses in a particular universities lower-division major curriculum in a particular major, which can be an issue.
Agreed.
> and all kids aren't required to go to College to earn a good living.
This will need a citation. My understanding is that the gap between between college graduates incomes and non-college graduate incomes continues to increase.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-salaries-colleg...
Obviously once you get into engineering degrees, computer science, finance, law degrees, and the like, no trade school or community college degree can compare. But the ultimate point is that a 4 year degree is not the only path to a decent income. Especially when you factor in student loan debt.
Well, I wouldn't be so sure of that. Quite a few of the vocations can make more than what you mentioned. It is variable, much like the pay of a computer science major depending on market.