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    Nothing is easy at first. College is no joke, it’s not like high school. High school is where you get to have fun and fool around. But when it comes to college it serious. You must be mentally prepared and matured to enter the world life of adults. The independence you must go through when in college. The stress that is will cause a pond you. It is not all bad, if you get a full tuition pay on a university. In that case you won’t be alone dealing with all the stress. College is a pathway to a better

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    that if you go to college it will guarantee you a respectable career and a higher-income. One would think that is what students expect to get out of their college experience but that may not always be the case. I am an example of a student who is looking for a different outcome for my college degree and experience. As an adult making the decision to go to college was a constant battle I struggled with. I knew I was taking a big risk when I signed up for classes. I knew college would be an adventure

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    College versus Education Nowadays, almost every high school graduates go to college to pursue further degrees. It has been considered as a norm to go to college such that if you do not, some people will most likely think that you will not succeed. On the other hand, other people think that college is not worth it; it waste the time, money, and does not do any good to college students. I believe that The data from the Economic Policy Institute especially telling because the institute makes a point

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    debate on if college is worth it or not. The debate is very controversial and many will say that college is not worth it; they will argue that college is not worth it because the cost of college is too high. The latter will argue that it will further their education. STEM jobs are starting to get higher in demand and to achieve those jobs the student will need a college education. This means that if a student wants an excellent job that has a high salary they will need a college education. With the

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    Barack Obama once said “that no matter what you do with your life I guarantee you'll need education to do it”. He might have said that because he wants kids to go to college and have a great future and just enjoy their life. A college education is valuable because people can meet and make new friends. People can receive a job and they can earn more money. If students start going to college and going to school they will most likely get a new job, most likely meet new people and make new friends, and

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    Increasing diversity in college enrollment has been a top task for universities for over fifty years. Despite the targets for diversification, a wide margin exists between the number of affluent white students and minority students enrolled in universities. One of the criteria for admission to many colleges is a standardized admission test. Those of higher socioeconomic background tend to score higher on standardized tests—of various categories: namely, SAT (referred to as “Scholastic Aptitude Test”

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    of dollars for a college education, that will put them into debt for most of their lives. College tuition should be provided and funded by the U.S. government via taxpayers because college provides the skills and resources for these young adults to mature and are productive members of society. A college education has become a Vidal part of today’s working-class society. Having a high school diploma doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. Most jobs require some sort of college education for entry level positions

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    According to Cherlin, as society progressed, “the demand for young workers with only a high school education lessened” (Cherlin 109). Society had begun to move away from an industrial era where one needed little no education to work and more toward a technological era where one needed to possess a college education to perform the tasks required. Also, “new technologies such as computers allowed employers to replace less- skilled workers with machines” (Cherlin 109). From this information

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    result of low educational attainment and financial issues. An example was the amount of students obtaining a high school diploma and those wanting to pursue a college degree were extremely low because there wasn’t much support or talk of college education or high school. In fact, students didn’t understand the importance of obtaining a college diploma which allows individuals to have more opportunities in the career fields they desire, provide job stability, better employment benefits, greater income

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    Recently, a lot of college students who are spending amount of money on school and after graduating they still can’t find a job, that make higher education background becomes a controversial question. Education background has become the focus of our current society, more and more people are beginning to be aware of the necessity of education and some people believed college degree is not important. As far as I am concerned, no matter in workplace, or in our social life, it is necessary for everyone

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