With the cost of tuition so high, many high school graduates are not able to continue on to higher education because of their financial standing. This forces many students to look closely at the benefits and disadvantages of college. The advantages of college include, but are not limited to; communication and writing, leadership, analytical, and social skills. They achieve communication, writing and analytical skills because college makes students problem solve and in order to pass classes, students must learn how to communicate what they are thinking in a proper manner. However, students also obtain social and leadership skills through meeting new people from different cultures and socializing with their peers. These advantages take real life application when the graduate goes to interviews and have to communicate with their future employer. Even though these advantages are amazing to bring to an interview, college also provides other opportunities such as internships which leads to individuals with college degrees having lower unemployment rates. “The employment rate for young adults with some college was higher than the rate for those who had completed high school (63.7 percent), which was, in turn, higher than the employment rate for those young adults who had not finished high school (46.6…