For-Profit Colleges Continue to Harm Poor Students

[Vle045]

A lot of interesting points throughout this thread. Here are my thoughts in general.

Community College is a very separate animal when it comes to graduation rates. I know that a lot of people do not necessarily use their community college to get a degree. It is used by high school students for dual credit, it is used between terms by students who are home for the summer, it is used by community members who just want to take a class to learn something specific. Heck, it is used by people like us who want to grab some RA credits before transferring to one of the Big 5! (Yeah, I said five. LOL) The list goes on.

WGU is relentless. I inquired there and they call, text and email me constantly.

It took me over 20 years to pay off the debt from my first degree. I think tuition was about $7,000 a year back then, and I had some small grants. My average pay has been in the ballpark of $30,000. So, pretty blah. Pretty hard to “sell” my son on college with that outcome.