Are Too Many People Going to College Essay

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    U.S. Graduates Opt for College After High School,” 65.9 percent of high school graduates are enrolled in higher education after high school. Deciding to go to college or join the work force after high school is a difficult decision because people don’t know what is better for them. Going to college after high school is more beneficial than going straight to work. It opens up better job opportunities and better wages. Not attempting to attend higher learning after college will lead to a less…

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    Many people talk about going to college, and how it will help them become experts at their jobs, such as a doctor, or a engineer, and so on. But what others argue is that, is college education actually valuable? College is a very valuable part of education because it can help people have a better chance of getting accepted into the job they applied for. Also, when you go to college, you can earn a chance to achieve great things like medals and certificates. Finally, college education is very…

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    will be many challenges to face, such as getting and keeping a job, health insurance, making the right decisions about an investment, and many others. Attending a college and obtaining a degree should be taken into consideration to assist in tackling these issues. Graduating from college comes with many benefits, including the fact that graduates are less likely to be unemployed, more likely to be involved in their community, have better health insurance and retirement plans, and most college…

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    stairs.” College is very expensive nowadays and is harder to pay for than it was back then. College is a very hard thing to accomplish and a hard decision for individuals and their families. Even though college is worth going to, students still have to pay for college tuition, a place to live, and transportation which is all too expensive for them. Students want to go to college but the reason why that some of them are skipping, missing classes, or not even going to college is because college…

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    with their subjects. College on the other hand does not provide students with textbooks that are essential in passing in college class. Buying textbooks just adds to the already expensive cost that comes with going to college. Tuition, living costs, and many other expenses, are what college students have to look forward to. The debate on lowering the cost on college expenses has been an uphill battle for years now, but the prices of colleges has gone up instead of down. College students may not…

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    Sensitivity Why do college students take things so seriously these days? According to the article, “Today’s College Students Can’t Seem to Take a Joke!”, written by Caitlin Flanagan discusses how college students cannot take a joke. This article, is about comedians coming onto college campuses to perform comedy, however college students take things too seriously. It talks about how the college students only liked the positive comedians that did not make any offensive jokes towards anyone.…

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    People go to college to have a better life where they are financially stable and they can have a job that they are passionate about. College education is a standard in which society deems necessary to be “qualified” not only for jobs but for intellectual conversation as well. Higher education is a luxury in most countries because of the importance of education. Education is powerful, it can take troubled kids and give them potential to the advancement of society rather than being part of “the…

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    to college. My dad also wanted me to go to college, but to him, college was for myself. High school was for him. If I decided to go to school that would be my decision. Regardless, he had no problem with me not going to school, as long as I found a good paying job. That wasn’t the case for my mother. Not going to college was never an option. I was going to go and be the first person in my family to get my college degree. I wanted to make her proud. But as I started the journey of the college…

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    In the essay “Colleges Prepare People for Life”, Freeman Hrabowaski argues the importance of college education by responding to the claims in an article written by the New York Times, titled “College is for Suckers”. According to Hrabowaski, the New York Times makes the point that students are taking on large amounts of of debt and are graduating unprepared for work in the real world. Hrabowaski disagrees with these claims when he writes “When we focus so heavily on the momentary inputs and…

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    College has been seen again and again as a stepping stool in a person’s life to get where one like to be. We spend 1/3 of our life going to school to learn, interact, socialize and earn a degree. How much of that is worth it? Why should we spend so long just for a piece of paper? Are too many people and the competition worth all the pain, financial stress, and imbalances in a person’s life? College is only getting more expensive by the year, and everyone deserves to go to college to learn, but…

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