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Argumentative Essay: Is College Worth It?

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Is College Worth It?
Unfortunately, in today’s society an individual can only be accepted either by the wealth that the person has or by achieving the highest form of education possible. Sadly, not everybody has millions of dollars in their bank accounts or are from an elite society, but everybody does have a chance of getting accepted by going to college and being successful. It is not going to be easy nor stress-free, but in the end, it is well compensated. Now, in the community there is a dilemma about if college is really worth it, and it comes really close but it also depends on the perspective of the person. Furthermore, eight out of ten times, college would be worth it, because there are only two or three things about college not being worth it and those are that, the individual is not really putting in the dedication, they have drug problems and/or they are not able to afford the full tuition. The most common one, is about the individual having drug related issues. There is numerous of real stories about this issue, for example, one day a speaker came to a high school to aware young teenagers about not getting into drugs, because it can ruin their lives …show more content…

A person with a Doctoral degree can make up to $1,623, a professional degree can make up to $1,730 and if it is compared to a high school diploma that can only make up to $798. The doctoral degree can make a little bit more than twice and the unemployment rate is extremely low. People who is thinking about going to college are so distracted about all the loans and debts that they would end up with instead of looking at the bigger picture. Current loan-based funding system stifles the economic mobility of students; they enter the labor market with a financial deficit that may take years to overcome. (Elliott) While this might be true, students with a higher degree in education are still going to be able to pay them off without having to sacrifice

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