Why Go To College...

Why go to college? Why not just get a job right after high school? Then again why even complete High school? Why not just get a job as soon as you turn 16 and forget about education? My personal answers to these questions are simple, why complete high school and then go to college and get a degree before working? Because you need it! I can sit here and bore you with my own personal reason why college is very important but I know people like hearing facts as oppose to just opinions. So here are some facts to sink your teeth in…According to the Census Bureau in 2002, over an adult's working life, high school graduates earn an average of $1.2 million; associate's degree holders earn about $1.6 million; and bachelor's degree holders earn about $2.1 million. If that's not impressive let me break it down a little further according to more recently taken U.S

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Census adults age 18 and older with a bachelor's degree earned an average of 15,554 in 2004. On the other hand adults with a high school diploma earned $28,645, and an even more recent Census showed that number dropped from 28,645ayear to an average of $19,169. Here are some more financial facts that should help keep you in school, in 2006, working adults with a master's, professional, and or doctoral degree earned a mean annual salary of $79,926!While money obviously catches everyone attention, there's some non financial reasons for attending college as well. Something as simple as gaining well needed experience, in order to make it in the work world, is one of them. Let's face it how can you make that 79,926 a year if you can't keep your job and work productively with your co workers. College gives you that chance...