The Pros And Cons Of College Enrollment Rates

United States public high schools recorded a four-year graduation rate of 82 percent for a past school year. That number does not mean a higher college rate, more like the complete opposite. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center suggests college-enrollment rates have actually declined. The number of students enrolling in colleges and universities this year is 1.7% lower than last years. The percent was originally 69% and now dropped down to 66% and this calculation is just starting college not even the percentile of them finishing college (Wong). Many believe if a student gets a high school diploma, goes to college, and studies there for four plus years, then 100% the graduate will make 10 times the amount of their parents and

Students have to have all these factors to be considered just one word and not be apprehensive to getting there. For students to be more successful they need to be familiar with failure, deferred gratification, and it is not luck it is education. With these key elements comes a new breed into society.

On the outside success seems like just an achievement, but in reality the answer is failure. Students can’t really see what’s beneath the surface until they remove the first several layers. This is what success really is: determination, hard work, good habits, disappointment, sacrifice, failure and persistence which is listed in the iceberg illusion (Swift). Determination is all in the mind, hard work is to the best of a student’s ability, good habits start from the day that student is born into the real world and is taught by their guardians, disappointment is understanding life is not fair, sacrifice is giving up something for a greater cause, and persistence is not giving up until all options are exhausted. This illusion shows that success is much bigger than what it seems. No one sees the requirements as a

If a student gets twenty dollars each week and spends it that same weekend, then maybe he/she can get a shirt they had been wanting. If that student gets twenty dollars each week and saves it in their piggy bank for a couple months, then maybe that student can get a laptop that he/she had been wanting and needing for school. If that student was to choose the laptop, then it would be the act of deferred gratification; the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward. This ideology is also expressed in the marshmallow experiment (Posada). This experiment was over the course of several years and proved that if someone was able to withhold temptation, then they would be able to be successful. Out of the children who didn’t eat the marshmallow three out of three of them went to college meaning a 100 percent possibility that they were successful and two out of three that did eat the marshmallow didn’t go to college and had been struggling throughout high school with grades. This experiment was an ideology that expressed an example through food, in which was able to determine a student’s future as early as the age of four. One’s ability to delay gratification relates to skills that include self-control, impulse, and patience. In the future this can be helpful in many ways in becoming successful. Given the scenario that one gets invited to the coolest party at the school that is hosted by the most popular kid in