Camden, would you agree that in today's world, the average traditional 4 year college student acquires close to $96k in debt at a state college and $184k at a private college? Would you not also agree, as research indicates, that 48% of recent college graduates work in a job that does not require a degree. They are defined as over educated and underemployed. Who is fighting for them? Where they not promised that with a college education anything is possible? That a college degree was a ticket to the American Dream? These poor souls were solicited in their high school years by college recruiters and encouraged by school counselors? This is a complete betrayal of trust. High schools provided the platform for taking the ACT/SAT for colleges and universities? In fact, state and local governments even rank high schools based on the number of students that move onto a 4 year college degree. The higher the ranking, then there are higher home costs. The higher real estate costs result in higher property tax dollars collected Higher property taxes result in larger allocation of funds to the local school system. It just goes on and one with no end in sight. The whole system is based on fraud and systemic abuse of young adults. These 48% gain nothing from their efforts except significant debt. However, all of those individuals that helped encourage and influence the decision to enroll -- benefited. I ask once again, who will fight for them?
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Anonymous84049: (1) your parents are morons, (2) you didn't go to school for four years in the Lib Arts to prepare to be a productive citizen - you went to party. Besides, you totally missed the point that there are undergrad aggregate loans limits that are around half of what the OP is claiming people have as debt, and the average debt (for those graduates who even have debt) is under $24,000. Sounds like you were lucky enough to have really, really stupid parents who paid for college and your living expenses while you chose NOT to be trained for a career. I hope that have the common sense to kick you out of the roost at this point, otherwise they are just being co-dependent.
actually OP is spot on! I am a Liberal Arts major.. my parents paid 86,000.00 I will be lucky to het a McJob
Wow that will get the koolaid drinking left in a frenzy!!! haha
Anonymous82786 - I think the OP should leave satire to people who are better at it. Lame.
I think the OP was being sarcastic ...
Camden would probably agree, since those figures make the Corinthian 15 seem like normal borrowers rather than greedy, lazy freaks. Reality, though, would disagree: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/11/13/average-student-loan-debt-hits-30-000 (30% of grads no debt, average of the others at both public and private schools = $28,400). I really believe that all of these posts referencing CK without explicitly making fun of him must be written by CK himself, but what is the purpose of this one? I guess there doesn't have to be -- the dude's a total dumbass.
The OP is obviously a troll with low education and no knowledge of our field. Pathetic!
OP, would you agree that (1) you have no knowledge nor experience in the matters you speak of, but are rather just mooing and whinnying at us because you want to feel special like the fancy pants edumacated folks? (2) that you don't have a college degree, and that explains your desperation to refuse to acknowledge that bachelor's degrees are now considered minimal for entry level non-labor jobs? No, I'm not talking about high-rung management jobs - ALL jobs that would be considered "careers" rather than commodity labor: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/education/2018-60-percent-job-openings-will-require-college-education
615 is showing that they do not know anything about loan limits. The amounts they show students borrowing are well above the limits that the feds allow students to borrow. If you are going to try and seem intelligent at least get your facts straight. Look up the aggregate limits for UG borrowing on the DOE website.