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In 2007, more than 50 percent of college graduates had a job offer lined up. For the class of 2009, fewer than 20 percent of them did. According to a 2010 study, every 1 percent uptick in the unemployment rate the year you graduate college means a 6 to 8 percent drop in your starting salary—a disadvantage that can linger for decades.
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
This means that where college graduates could once expect to live about two years longer than non-college graduates, they’re now unlikely to face their mortality for an additional eight years.
He'd gone to college because he didn't want to disappoint me. He's learning by doing what he enjoys. Plenty of well-known people have hit pause on college and gone on trips overseas to "find ...
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The essay starts with "I am a dynamic figure", and contains many humorous, hyperbolic statements of his accomplishments, ending with the line, "But I have not yet gone to college. " The essay, which he did apparently submit to some colleges, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] has become an urban legend among high school students undergoing the college admissions process.
College visits (including overnight ones), [181] interviews, attending College Fair days, [181] comments in the essay, contacting college faculty members, answering and opening emails, [181] [182] place position of the college on the FAFSA form or its FAFSA position, [82] [83] [84] [183] and other indications of interest can be a factor for ...
“Stop right there. Please don’t say ‘suicide’ to me right now. I am so sick of the word suicide. I am not going to kill myself.” He spoke right over me. “—and then they have to release you. As long as you don’t do anything else. As I understand it, you just keep your cool for three days and you’ll be out.”