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Lokarin posted...

Saying college is a scam is like saying high school is a scam... you don't go for the learnin', you go for the socials

And I did genuinely enjoy the "college experience", hence why I said if you can go for cheap, it's potentially worth it even if your degree is useless.
I do think high school is more intrinsically useful. The math and english being taught is still at a relatively basic level that you might actually use in real life. Plus high school is free...

adjl posted...

Pretty much. Bonus points where new graduates struggling with debt are criticized for making poor financial decisions as 17-year-olds that have spent their entire lives being told that college is a necessity if they want to get anywhere.

Nah, I don't buy that.
Where are the parents in all of this? NO ONE told these kids what kind of debt they'd go in to attend their "dream" school? Bull shit.
And when I was figuring this shit out in high school, I strongly thought of cost. I had the grades to at least have a good chance at an Ivy League or MIT level school, but decided I didn't want the debt. Went w/ my state school for that reason, it had an accredited engineering program, that's what really mattered.
There are plenty of state or community college options, but for a lot of students those aren't prestigious or cool enough. My sibling went to a private liberal arts college for a worthless degree just because the campus was beautiful (yes, really) and is still deep in debt.