What Is College Worth It Essay
Mackenzie Raske
Xavier Pastrano
ENGL 101T 14
College: Is it Worth It? Almost everybody’s plan after high school is to go to college, find a job, fall in love, get married, and own a home. All of these are attainable with a good paying job and sometimes even a college education. In this research paper I will be discussing these topics, increasing cost of college, affording college, finding employment after college, and weather or not graduates are able to pay off their debt.
The consequence of not going to college is even more fatal than paying for it. Not going to college makes it harder to find a job and harder to make money to support a family. So either way they give you no choice but to either go to college, get into debt, or find …show more content…
What I can’t seem to figure out is where our tuition money is actually going. College is quickly becoming out of hand for lower income families; so why is tuition going up? Gordon Winston answers this question by saying, “Well because when the government aid goes up so does tuition costs.” And, “The solution of rising tuition would be to limit grants and loan subsidies.” Obviously we pay for our dorm but that could be solved if you live with your parents. The cost figures for books and supplies have kept the same for 30 years. But besides what we need and our classes what else are we exactly paying …show more content…
Therefore, students are getting into thousand dollars in debt, only to graduate and struggle in finding a job. We need to make sure the investment you’re making is in the job you want. According to Garcia and Aracil, the business employers prefer to hire graduates from specific fields that already know what they’re doing, and need only little instruction. So basically, if you’re not skilled in the areas the job requires then you probably aren’t going to be their first pick. My dad says that businesses want someone that can start working right away. Requirements these days can be very hard to reach, and you want to base your job on how long it will take you to pay off your student
Xavier Pastrano
ENGL 101T 14
College: Is it Worth It? Almost everybody’s plan after high school is to go to college, find a job, fall in love, get married, and own a home. All of these are attainable with a good paying job and sometimes even a college education. In this research paper I will be discussing these topics, increasing cost of college, affording college, finding employment after college, and weather or not graduates are able to pay off their debt.
The consequence of not going to college is even more fatal than paying for it. Not going to college makes it harder to find a job and harder to make money to support a family. So either way they give you no choice but to either go to college, get into debt, or find …show more content…
What I can’t seem to figure out is where our tuition money is actually going. College is quickly becoming out of hand for lower income families; so why is tuition going up? Gordon Winston answers this question by saying, “Well because when the government aid goes up so does tuition costs.” And, “The solution of rising tuition would be to limit grants and loan subsidies.” Obviously we pay for our dorm but that could be solved if you live with your parents. The cost figures for books and supplies have kept the same for 30 years. But besides what we need and our classes what else are we exactly paying …show more content…
Therefore, students are getting into thousand dollars in debt, only to graduate and struggle in finding a job. We need to make sure the investment you’re making is in the job you want. According to Garcia and Aracil, the business employers prefer to hire graduates from specific fields that already know what they’re doing, and need only little instruction. So basically, if you’re not skilled in the areas the job requires then you probably aren’t going to be their first pick. My dad says that businesses want someone that can start working right away. Requirements these days can be very hard to reach, and you want to base your job on how long it will take you to pay off your student