Not Going To College Research Paper

Society tends to believe that attending to college is something that everyone should do in order to live a successful and prosperous life. After doing research about the benefits of college, read different perspectives and opinions of different authors my view about college has changed. A lot of kids think that in order to get accepted into college you need to have perfect test scores and an exceptional gpa but that’s not true. Angel B. Perez in the article, Want to Get Into College? Learn to Fail, asserts that college admission officers want to get to know the student applying outside of his/her academic history. That means that if you are eager to learn you can get into college and by attending to college you are going to expand your mind, gain more knowledge and be a successful person.
One of the many reasons why college is visioned as a necessity is because common sense seems to dictate that if you have a degree you will have more job opportunities and be economically stable. Accordinging to the U.S Mean Annual Earnings someone that has a bachelor’s degree
Schlack in the article, Not Going To College is a Viable Option, states that “the go-to college tsunami has given us college full of young people who really don’t know why they are there or where they are going.” Lawrence B. Schlack point is that college is not be for everybody and people can be successful without a college education. All though I agree that Schlack up to a point, I cannot accept his overall conclusion that college is not for everybody, I’m not saying that students should be forced to go to college but if you have the opportunity, take it and if you don’t, make the opportunity youself! Get informed and collect all the information you need to get admitted. Going to college can expose you to different cultures and people and I think that can change you as a person for the better. Going to college doesn’t only make you grow intellectually but it also helps you grow as an