Summary Of Americas Most Overrated Product By Marty Nemko

All your life you are told you need to go to college to be successful. In reality college is a chance to be successful but, doesn’t mean that you will be. In his article “Americas Most Overrated Product” Marty Nemko talks about college student statistics stating, "College is a wise choice for far fewer people than are currently encouraged to consider it” (527).
Nemko states, “Among high school students who graduated in the bottom forty percent of their classed, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two thirds had not earned diplomas eight years later” (523). People who end up getting college diplomas hardly ever work in the career that they have a degree in, let alone can get jobs that require a degree. There are many places

He states far more facts of bad news about colleges, than good. He talks a lot about college students having so much debt, but doesn’t provide evidence. He states, “Perhaps more surprising, even those high-school students who are fully qualified to attend college are increasingly unlikely to derive enough benefit to justify the often six-figure cost and four to six years (or more) it takes to graduate” (Nemko 524). He talks a lot about is the percentage of college students who never graduate or receive a college diploma, but what he doesn’t talk about is the percentage of students who do graduate, receive a diploma, and become successful through going to

I feel that he is very set on the fact that college is overrated, and that he has a hard time finding any good in college. He talks a lot about how many students do not graduate or receive a college diploma, putting the blame on the colleges. I think the fact that students aren’t graduating to be their own fault. I say this because I feel that many college students don’t put in the effort, or work that it takes to succeed. He states, “Many College graduates are forced to take some very nonprofessional positions, such as driving a truck or tending a bar” (Nemko 524). I feel that it is the students fault if they are unable to get a job they have a degree in. If they want it enough they will do what it takes to get