According to CollegeAtlas.org, “30% of college and university students drop out after their first year.” Growing up, most people 's dream is to graduate from high school and enroll in a community college or a university, but what happens once they get to that point of their lives? To some people, attending a college or a university is the most important step of becoming an adult, and if they have a clear mind on what they want to study, they will begin studying their major. While for others, college is the place where they will find out what they want to become. Some students, as they go to college, have a clear idea of what they will be studying, but once they start taking courses for their major, they may realize that the classes are difficult …show more content…
College isn’t cheap, college tuitions are immensely high and so are the class fees. According to Ccompletioncorps.org, “College costs have risen 400% in the last 25 years…also, community college costs have risen 200% in the last 7 years and 7.3% since 2009.” As a result, many students have to look for a part-time job to pay for their education. Having a part-time job can be a relief for these students because they have a way of paying their class or book fees, but it can be stressful and difficult to keep up with school and their job. Some students, unfortunately, don’t have their parents help, this is because they are either unemployed and if they are employed, they have household bills that they need to take care of. According to a research by Vaidotas Lukosius, J. Byron Pennington and Festus O. Olorunniwo from Tennessee State University, “Students who find it difficult to adjust to college are found to have weaker relationships with, or psychological independence from, their parents (Credé & Niehorster, 2012). Increasingly, students come from first-generation, low-income, and ethnically diverse backgrounds (DeBerard, Spielmans, & Julka, 2004).” Due to the low-income of the student’s parents, students are more likely to drop out of college. Even though students try to pay for their own education, it’s too much for the students to handle when they have school and work to keep up …show more content…
Students who aren’t academically prepared drop out because they lack knowledge, or can’t read or write well. It’s stressful for students to be in a class where they don’t understand the material, even if they do get help from others. Financial problems, stress students and as a result, they drop out. Lastly, students who lack responsibility tend to drop out of college. Hopefully in the future, students will prepare themselves for college, and if high school teachers can help them prepare themselves, it would probably lower the rate of college
When a young adult decided to go to college they have a very big decision to make about what their future will hold and where their future will begin. Once the decision has been made and college has begun, new friends are made and the actions they do shape who they will become. Weekends come and go, but the decisions that are made are different for each and every individual that attends college. There are those who choose to stay on campus and spend the weekend doing things around school with new friends, others choose to go home for different reasons, such as being homesick and wanting to be with family or spending the time off of school for work to help pay for tuition, also there are the students who choose to go to other institutions to see new friends they have made or visit old ones from high school. What I am attempting to understand is with my target population, is not only what the group chooses to do with their weekend time, but also to try and understand why they choose to do what they do with that time.
In my community, El Sereno, college is viewed as an option as opposed to it being the next step in life. Most people in my area either begin working or start a family after they graduate from high school. Not always by choice, but in some cases by circumstance. Students in my neighborhood either lack the knowledge, financial support, guidance or even legal status that would otherwise drive them to apply or even go to college. About eighty-percent of students graduated from my high school, but only about twenty-percent ended up attending a four-year university (NINCHE). One of the biggest reasons for student’s low college entrance rate has to deal with their family's socioeconomic
Having the college experience is everyone’s dream, especially High School students who are ready to get out into the world and explore. College is very important for furthering someone’s career, but no one thinks about all the costs and the stress that comes along with college. Tuition fees and costs are increasing more and more each year. Now days it feels like you have to be a millionaire just to attend a good college and get a good degree in what you were attending for. There are some students that do not have a lot of money and live on very little things with their parents, but indeed are very smart and have a 4.0 GPA. Those students are the ones that are unable to attend college if they cannot afford it. College tuition is too expensive,
But what’s more important? Saving money orapplying to college? So here we ask ourselves on more time, is college worth it? Of course, it is.The more colleges you apply for, the better. Expanding your college options are better thanlimiting yourself with a budget.The cost of tests and applications may be high, but that is nothing compared to how muchcollege really costs. In college, you’re not just paying for the opportunity to learn. You arepaying for books, to rooming, to the grass you step on, and to the air you breathe. A student withno subsidizing means to pay for college can find themselves amidst a nightmare when findingout how much college costs. The cost is so high that an “average of $29,400” (Webber 2) isexpected for a single student’s loans. College tuition, is not lenient, and you know it’s bad whenalmost former president Barack Obama mentioned and “criticized the rising rate of collegetuition” (Gutmann 136). The average cost of college can “range from $3,000 to more than$32,000” (How Much Will College Cost Me? 1). And for low-income students? The statisticssay that “only 52 percent of low-income students enrolled in a…college immediately upongraduating” (Elliot 26). The game is not in the favor of low-income students. In fact, collegecosts plus lack of monetary. See, they need jobs to pay for college, but without college, thechances at a good paying job are slim. And so, some never see the end of
It seems as though the majority of college students these days aren’t looking to further their education because it’s what they really want, they do it to please their parents, to be accepted by society, or because there’s nothing else for them to do (Bird, 372). These expectations have led to students being unhappy and stressed, and have pushed them into a school or a job that they don’t particularly care for.
With tuition rising every year, students face the challenge paying the debt achieving a college degree comes with. “Student debt surpassed credit-card debt in June 2010 for the first time in history, rising to about $830 billion — or nearly 6 percent of the nation 's annual economic output”(Clemmitt, Marcia). Not everyone has a ton of money just laying around. Being that financial trouble is the biggest problem for students, they begin to question whether college is worth it or not. In recent years, students have taken out loans to help with expenses. Most students choose to attend a community and junior college to help minimize the debt. Even after graduating with a degree, students still face the struggle of finding a job in this economic time. For higher class families this may not be a problem to them. But for the middle class and low income families, they face tougher times being that they don 't have the financial help like higher class families do. For the middle class and low income families, it makes more sense attending a community and junior college rather than a four year university.
Society puts too much pressure on high school students to attend a 4-year college right after graduation. Though this is an attainable goal for some, a great majority of students are not fully prepared for the demands of college. 4-year schools require an incredible amount of maturity and preparation, leaving very little room for mistakes. Schools often overlook this aspect because their main goal is to get as many students into 4-year college as possible. This is a great goal to have however they send students off to college who aren’t ready to be handle the difficult of their courses while being away from home. My senior year of high school, my family and I came to the conclusion that we were not going to be able to afford four-year college tuition. This upset me at first because I felt like all my hard work and good grades went to waste. I dreaded the thought of going to community college because my who...
Steve Cohen shows the disparity between the rising cost of college and a family’s capability to afford it. Cohen explains “Tuition has risen almost 1,200 percent in the last 35 years, and the sticker price for many four-year private colleges and out-of-state public universities exceeds $250,000.” Moreover, he goes on to say that even at public universities, it is about $80,000 for four years for tuition and other college related expenses. Later in his article, Cohen explains how this leaves middle-class families in a very uncomfortable situation. The parents or other money-making entities in the household want their student to go to college and earn a degree, but now there can be an element of stress in figuring out how the fees will be paid for. Furth...
First of all, many high school graduates cannot handle college. Isabel V. Sawhill and Stephanie Owen describe college as a place, “one can obtain a traditional four-year bachelor’s degree”. The work load outside of the classroom could be compared to working a full time job. For example, if a student is enrolled in four college courses and is in class a minimum of four hours the student should spend at least four to six hours of studying. This may be extremely agitating and stressful to a student that is not good at studying. The new college student may realize that the schoolwork is too much for him to handle and instead drop out. In Pharinet’s blog post, Is College for Everyone? He states that “…it is estimated that in the U.S., approximately 50% of students who begin college never graduate. There exist students who are not yet ready for the academic and financial challenges of college. There exist students who do not have the desire for college or learning.” This statement is important because if 50% of students that begin college never gradua...
College students drop out of school because the classes are too hard, students are too lazy, and do not go to class, or there partying too much and not enough studying. Look, college is hard enough for those that are motivated. According to Ivory Tower Arizona State University, the number one party school in the United States has 76,000 students enroll in ASU per year. Which means there are around 240 students in a lecture hall while there are only 40% facility on campus. Students do not do well in college and want to drop out because the class room size is way too big and the college is short staffed. When you go to a big college with 240 students in a class you are just a number to the professor because he is not going to try to remember your name or try to help you pass the class. He is just there to teach and get paid. In college students study less than 5 hours a week and that is less than an hour a day. In a semester class students write less than 20 pages of notes. Since, students are not motivated in studying for school that causes the students to fail tests which leads to failing the class which leads to lowing there GPA and also the college GPA and that leads to students dropping out of college. The Ivory Tower states in 4 years 68% of college students drop out. Every University that has a lecture hall during the first week of orientation the professor says to the students look to you left and look to your right because only one of you are going to be here in the end the rest are going to drop out of the class or even drop out of college. Students are not motivated in learning the material are they want are blow off classes so they can pass the class with little or no effort that they got to put in.
Affordability is one of the biggest determining factor of whether students continue with their education and attend college or decide to finish their studies and go to work. A college application that allows students to even be considered for a spot in the institution requires students to pay an application fee. As a result, students who came from low-socioeconomic status families did not apply to many colleges as students who came from middle-socioeconomic status families or high-socioeconomic status families because they could not afford to pay for many applications (Denson, et al., 2014). Families must also consider the price of a college education for four years when they are deciding on a college. If the family cannot afford college tuition, room & board, meals, and transportation, then they are unable
Within recent decades, college has become a more easily available path than it has been for the past generations. In a current news release, The Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that, “Of the 2.9 million youth age 16 to 24 who graduated from high school between January and October 2014, about 68.4 percent were enrolled in college in October” (BLS Economic News Release from April 2015). When a student graduates high school, most of them intend to continue on to college. They have the idea that, while there, they can break away from all the general classes and just focus on what they want to learn. However, for almost all students, they find that this is not the reality. Just like high school, they find that they have to take approximately two years in general studies in order to attend and graduate with the major of their choice. General education classes should not be required because a majority of the information learned has already been covered in past years. Most of the courses do not benefit a student 's major, and the total amount of required hours for these classes can become a big waste of time and money.
The wise Malcom X once said, “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” The number of high school drop outs is highly increasing due to the diverse obstacles students come cross every day. Many people believe that school is not made for everyone, yet this statement is false. In fact, school is made for everyone since there are numerous programs and institutions around the world to help young adults strive for their dreams. The number of high school drop outs needs to start decreasing since young adults will receive a high paying job if they would receive a degree at a university, will not end up in jail, and be able to start a family with little to no struggles.
As high school students, most of us were taught the dream of going to college from the importance that it has. The real life examples from our friends teach us the importance of going to college. If you drop out of college you may lose yourself, your family, and your friends. One of my friends dropped out of college because he had a bad friendship. So, they convinced him not to go to the school, but when he grew up he realized that the college was the most important thing in his life. Even though we know that “college is the best thing”, why we drop out of college? That fact is that we drop out from the college for many reasons.
When they drop out, they limit their opportunities and waste the money that was invested into them. There are opportunities available to students to obtain a free education and avoid financial hardships. Once students get into college they must stay focused on their education and perform to the best of their abilities to avoid remedial classes and graduate in the shortest time possible without debt. Once the student receives their degree they can take advantage of a wide variety opportunities available to those with a degree. By obtaining their degree students are taking advantage of the money that has been invested in them. All students to avoid situations that cause a lot of students to dropout from college. Students should take advantage of the opportunities given to them so they do not waste the money that others have invested in