When College Is A Waste

From Joanne Jacobs:

College is a waste of time and money for below-average students and party animals, writes career counselor Marty Nemko in Chronicle of Higher Education.

Among high-school students who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their classes, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two-thirds had not earned diplomas eight and a half years later.

Drop-outs leave with little learning and a lot of debt. Those who scrape through “rarely end up in careers that require a college education.”

College benefits competent, motivated and sober students, Nemko writes. But they’re the minority.