One can argue that it doesnt have to be the most important because there are other options....but how messed up is it that at age 17, they make highschool students choose what they want to do in life, where they want to do it, and how they must make it happen in terms of student debt. As a 21 year old now looking back at the 17 year old self...although i made a decent choice as far as where to go, love the field of Finance and am debt free so far I still regret not picking a different school which I am trying to transfer to after my internship.
My concern is just that they dont supply kids with the knowledge needed to make these decisions. Debt is something obviously foreign to these kids so I wont even speak on that. But at them university fairs, you just have a bunch of schools that for some reason have the right to claim theyre the best in this, this and that...when in all actuality are considered laughing stocks when it comes to the industry you wanna get into. The average student takes this shyt like
and runs with it because even magazine ratings dont offer much knowledge, and at that point all you really know about for research is google and each individual schools website which will hold even more bullshyt.
Combine that with parents who dont wanna pay for their kids to live in dorm rooms or off campus housing away from home you have kids choosing universities they think are good....but more so for the convenience.
I see people at work and they're depressed saying they went to X University and had a 4.0 GPA thinking theyd be hittin...then they are un for a rude awakening because they werent in a target school.
I refuse to end up like them 
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A damn shame. Once upon a time you could have people that came off farms to work admin jobs at banks, then rise up to be the managing director of commodities trading @ Citi with nothing but a high school diploma at the beginnings
. Now you need that, a bachelors, 2 years experience at a great institution, extracurriculars and to know someone to be on the interview list full of 50 other students.Read about it all the time on Bloomberg when it comes to some of these execs. SMH.
My concern is just that they dont supply kids with the knowledge needed to make these decisions. Debt is something obviously foreign to these kids so I wont even speak on that. But at them university fairs, you just have a bunch of schools that for some reason have the right to claim theyre the best in this, this and that...when in all actuality are considered laughing stocks when it comes to the industry you wanna get into. The average student takes this shyt like
and runs with it because even magazine ratings dont offer much knowledge, and at that point all you really know about for research is google and each individual schools website which will hold even more bullshyt. Combine that with parents who dont wanna pay for their kids to live in dorm rooms or off campus housing away from home you have kids choosing universities they think are good....but more so for the convenience.
I see people at work and they're depressed saying they went to X University and had a 4.0 GPA thinking theyd be hittin...then they are un for a rude awakening because they werent in a target school.
I refuse to end up like them .A damn shame. Once upon a time you could have people that came off farms to work admin jobs at banks, then rise up to be the managing director of commodities trading @ Citi with nothing but a high school diploma at the beginnings
. Now you need that, a bachelors, 2 years experience at a great institution, extracurriculars and to know someone to be on the interview list full of 50 other students.Read about it all the time on Bloomberg when it comes to some of these execs. SMH.
