Applying for college and scholarships can be a scary time for high school students, but what are those who aren’t planning to attend college doing? They are feeling the overbearing pressure from parents, peers, and teachers, feeling stressed over whether their grades will be up to par if they do decide to someday attend a school, and feeling overwhelmed with the prices of various schools they may be interested in. Instead of having college sitting in front of them from the beginning of their education, students should be taught that not going to college is just as okay as going to college. College is not the best option for every high school student due to pressure, academics, and price. To begin, there is an overbearing amount of pressure …show more content…
Richard Eskow from Campaign for America’s Future recognizes, “Education is in danger of becoming an inherited privilege... “The odds that a young person in the U.S. will be in higher education if his or her parents do not have an upper secondary education are just 29%...” (qtd. in Eskow par. 11). College tends to just be too much for students and therefore they cannot or choose not to attend. However, editors Miranda Herbert Ferrara and Michele P. LaMeau trust that it is favorable for students to take out loans, stating, “The most common type of U.S. federal loan is the Stafford loan, which is available to both undergraduate and graduate students who attend college at least half time” (Ferrara and LaMeau. par. 6). Therefore, loans can be beneficial to a student wanting to attend college. The Future of Children also recognizes, “... If the difference between the benefits and the costs is larger than the present value of a prospective student's lifetime earnings without attending college, the individual would attend… the present value of the benefits exceeds the costs...” (Oreopoulos. par. 6). Benefits that a student would receive from attending college will, in essence, outweigh any cost they may have in