For most high school graduates there are two options. Go to college or join the workforce. Finances play a giant role on which option a graduate will choose. If college is chosen, how is it going to be paid for? Not every student will have the money necessary to pay for college, so then it is either a student loan or financial aid. Financial aid can be very selective, so that leaves student loans. Will those loans pay off with a degree to have a career that will financially pay off those loans, or is that student going to be left in debt that is unable to be paid?
I believe that if a student is careful when borrowing money, and is prepared to live frugally, that it is worth it to invest in college. Ultimately though, it is up to that individual if paying back
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In the article “Success without College,” the author defends young adults after Larry
King insults them. She says, “Any serious attempt to get some young people to decide to pass on college for their own benefit has to begin by asking eighteen-year-olds to make more mature decisions than our current culture thinks they should make. When Larry King interviewed Kobe
Bryant about his decision to enter the NBA Draft after high school, King asked, “What was the hardest part about being eighteen and playing in the league with adults?” My thought was, eighteen-year-olds are adults, Mr. King, even if they are less wise than their elders.”(2011) I couldn’t agree with her more. An eighteen-year-old may not have as much wisdom as someone twice their age, but everyone has to learn sometime. Everyone was eighteen once. There was a time when most people were married by the time they were eighteen. If a person can have that much responsibility at eighteen, they can also decide whether they want to go to college or not.
She then goes on to say “Anyone who can legally drive a car, vote in a presidential election, or serve in the military should be treated as a young man or woman, not as a “college
I believe that if a student is careful when borrowing money, and is prepared to live frugally, that it is worth it to invest in college. Ultimately though, it is up to that individual if paying back
loans …show more content…
In the article “Success without College,” the author defends young adults after Larry
King insults them. She says, “Any serious attempt to get some young people to decide to pass on college for their own benefit has to begin by asking eighteen-year-olds to make more mature decisions than our current culture thinks they should make. When Larry King interviewed Kobe
Bryant about his decision to enter the NBA Draft after high school, King asked, “What was the hardest part about being eighteen and playing in the league with adults?” My thought was, eighteen-year-olds are adults, Mr. King, even if they are less wise than their elders.”(2011) I couldn’t agree with her more. An eighteen-year-old may not have as much wisdom as someone twice their age, but everyone has to learn sometime. Everyone was eighteen once. There was a time when most people were married by the time they were eighteen. If a person can have that much responsibility at eighteen, they can also decide whether they want to go to college or not.
She then goes on to say “Anyone who can legally drive a car, vote in a presidential election, or serve in the military should be treated as a young man or woman, not as a “college