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by urethrafranklin 3272 days ago
That's a rather self-serving criteria, isn't it? Oh, you failed to get a job? Must be because you weren't reasonably intelligent enough!
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It's not self-serving to tell someone "really, no, you shouldn't take out a big loan to pay for this because you're probably unprepared and will fail".

On the contrary, taking literally every student who can get a federal student loan -- regardless of your faith in their ability to get something meaningful out of the degree -- is extremely selfish!

90%! of my childhood friends succeeded at getting a degree but failed at that "well paying job" part.

Graduating is the easy part.