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Originally Posted by God-King Abacab
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It doesn't matter if a few individuals can make it out with scholarships, grants, and self-payment in cheap schools, it doesn't even compare to the "C" student taking out $45,000 loans every year and maxing them out... They will NEVER be able to pay that shit off no matter the degree.
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But that is their own fault. There are plenty of options to go to school for extremely cheap rates. This is the only point I am trying to make.
- You can get a ton of grant money if your income is medium-low, which is free money not dependent on your grades. You can get enough to completely cover tuition costs and help or cover room/board costs.
- If you are ambitious you can get scholarship money but that is hard to get.
- You can do 2 years at community college for extremely cheap rates, then transfer in to a good school. 2 years at comm college will not hurt your future and transferring into a good school is 100x easier than getting accepted to that school straight out of highschool.
The point is college is an extremely good investment if you make it a good investment. The typical person can get in and out with little debt quite easily and and major in a sound field like: math, chemistry, engineering, physics, etc. No one is preventing you from picking whatever major you want, so someone choosing a liberal arts subject is making that choice knowing his degree will largely be worthless. Likewise, a person who takes out globs of loans is doing so under their own choice since there are much cheaper ways to complete college.
But again, just majoring in a science field won't ensure you a job. Simply, getting through a mediocre school with mediocre stats doesn't impress anyone and there aren't going to be people calling you up begging you to work for them.