During the final week of my senior year, many questions are pondering my mind, such as: where am I going to college, where should I go to college, where are my classmates going to college, will any of us become successful in the future? In today’s world there are many ways to find success. It can be at a 4-year institution, a 2-year institution, a trade school, or join the work force immediately. To ensure success, it is suggested that you go to college. If you are capable of going to college, go, it is a good investment.
We live in a very different world our parents did. Nytimes.com shares that not many decades ago, high school was to be considered the frontier of education. I believe that today, college is the frontier of education. Going to college has a lot of benefits. Primarily, you get an education …show more content…
Brookings.edu shared a very interesting chart titled “Earning Trajectories by Educational Attainment. I was not surprised at the results. The chart shares that by age forty, a college graduate will make about $40,000 more than a high school graduate. To an immediate impact, by age 24 a college graduate will make $14,000 more than a high school graduate. Nytimes.com also shared that Americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people without a degree. That’s up from 89 percent five years earlier, 85 percent a decade earlier and 64 percent in the early 1980s. In college you get much more than an education, you learn how to become independent. You learn how to learn rather than being taught. Another great reason why to go to college is if you go, your grandchildren will be more likely to go too: 71 percent of students with at least one parent who has a bachelor’s degree apply to college themselves. Only 26 percent of first-generation students (those with no parent who went beyond high school) apply to college says
We live in a very different world our parents did. Nytimes.com shares that not many decades ago, high school was to be considered the frontier of education. I believe that today, college is the frontier of education. Going to college has a lot of benefits. Primarily, you get an education …show more content…
Brookings.edu shared a very interesting chart titled “Earning Trajectories by Educational Attainment. I was not surprised at the results. The chart shares that by age forty, a college graduate will make about $40,000 more than a high school graduate. To an immediate impact, by age 24 a college graduate will make $14,000 more than a high school graduate. Nytimes.com also shared that Americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people without a degree. That’s up from 89 percent five years earlier, 85 percent a decade earlier and 64 percent in the early 1980s. In college you get much more than an education, you learn how to become independent. You learn how to learn rather than being taught. Another great reason why to go to college is if you go, your grandchildren will be more likely to go too: 71 percent of students with at least one parent who has a bachelor’s degree apply to college themselves. Only 26 percent of first-generation students (those with no parent who went beyond high school) apply to college says