After High School Jeff Selingo Summary
This generation of students are attending universities after high school more than in the past because the thought is college education leads to successful job. In the article “did anyone ask the student” Jeff Selingo went to multiple universities and took surveys with students to ask their opinions about school.
When I graduated high school in 2013 I attended a community college in Pennsylvania for a semester. My thought on college in high school were “I don’t really want to continue my education for another four years”. That was until my high school counselor called me to her office seeing that I didn’t apply for schools. She explained that I wouldn’t be able to get a good job or ever own a house without a college degree, so that fear pushed me into continuing my education. My parents were the same way they also told me “most jobs would hire a college graduate over a high school graduate”. That was the final push towards the path of …show more content…
going to apply for college.
The fact that I would have more of an upper hand on other people because I had a college education is what pushed me to finish as well. One student in the article said “I worked as a corrections officer and made a lot of money, but knew I needed that degree. The reason why is because more and more companies are hiring people with degrees because they have higher educations. So high school diplomas aren’t as useful as they use to be a couple years ago. The option of working after high school is still available but you won’t be able to move up the ladder as fast as someone with a degree. The choice of what you want to be when you grow up is all decided before you take your first college class based on your major.
The major I chose was Engineering then went to HVAC, Athletic Trainer and finally sports journalism.
The process of selecting what you want to do for the rest of your life at the age of eighteen is very complicated. One student Selingo asked how she chose her major responded with “I had to pick something my last week of senior year to put on my college application”. In my opinion that is ridiculous that we have to decide that young on what we as young adults want to do for the rest of our lives. This causes students to change majors multiple times throughout college causing students to waste more time and money in college.
This generation of students coming from high school are slowly losing their choice of if they want to attend college or not. This will soon become a requirement in order to get the job and being able to live off of the job. The competition of getting that dream job just became more difficult and we as young adults have no choice but to put in four more years of education for a total of sixteen years of
school.
When I graduated high school in 2013 I attended a community college in Pennsylvania for a semester. My thought on college in high school were “I don’t really want to continue my education for another four years”. That was until my high school counselor called me to her office seeing that I didn’t apply for schools. She explained that I wouldn’t be able to get a good job or ever own a house without a college degree, so that fear pushed me into continuing my education. My parents were the same way they also told me “most jobs would hire a college graduate over a high school graduate”. That was the final push towards the path of …show more content…
going to apply for college.
The fact that I would have more of an upper hand on other people because I had a college education is what pushed me to finish as well. One student in the article said “I worked as a corrections officer and made a lot of money, but knew I needed that degree. The reason why is because more and more companies are hiring people with degrees because they have higher educations. So high school diplomas aren’t as useful as they use to be a couple years ago. The option of working after high school is still available but you won’t be able to move up the ladder as fast as someone with a degree. The choice of what you want to be when you grow up is all decided before you take your first college class based on your major.
The major I chose was Engineering then went to HVAC, Athletic Trainer and finally sports journalism.
The process of selecting what you want to do for the rest of your life at the age of eighteen is very complicated. One student Selingo asked how she chose her major responded with “I had to pick something my last week of senior year to put on my college application”. In my opinion that is ridiculous that we have to decide that young on what we as young adults want to do for the rest of our lives. This causes students to change majors multiple times throughout college causing students to waste more time and money in college.
This generation of students coming from high school are slowly losing their choice of if they want to attend college or not. This will soon become a requirement in order to get the job and being able to live off of the job. The competition of getting that dream job just became more difficult and we as young adults have no choice but to put in four more years of education for a total of sixteen years of
school.