College is Bulls***!!

"College is a scam," said my fiance. "You're getting scammed, the teacher is getting scammed, you're all getting scammed. It's no wonder people aren't going." 

It's the professional obligation of colleges to report graduation rates. Normally nobody would care except the number's being reported are kinda embarrassing. They range from 56% to 2.5%. Thats well over half to damn near the entire class thats dropped out. So why? Why are people deciding to not stay in college? 

Completing college is obviously expensive, so in order to cut the cost, students strive to graduate in 4 years. "To be enrolled full-time, students must take 12 credits a semester. To graduate in four years, students must take and pass at least 15 credits a semester," says Lynn O'shaughnessy in her article. So by that logic, students have to work more than what is already required per semester to graduate on time? Now it may not seem like much but students have lives and jobs to manage. They can't just drop everything for school.

PROBABLY because they feel like they're being scammed out of their time and money. It the opinion of many people, my fiance included, that college is scamming its students. The misuse of money, i.e not buying textbooks for students and unequal opportunities, and how loans literally follow you for the rest of your life. It's as if people are in college for more than the 4 years they already gave to it, and it's not like they get a stable career or even a job for graduating. Is it any wonder that people don't wanna waste their time with it anymore? College is bulls***.

Sources:

source 1: https://www.cappex.com/articles/blog/government-publishes-graduation-rate-data

Source 2: My Fiance.