[thrwayaistartup]

Most comments here are completely missing the point: remote learning during the pandemic era was worse than useless. As a result, the pandemic era created a HUGE bifurcation in the student population between autodidacts and non-autodidacts.

You can see this in high school test scores, in placement exams, in Freshman college performance, and even in new grad hire cohorts.

The autodidact set has realized that they can teach themselves a lot of what they would've learned in coursework at colleges. There are still some elite career pathways where formal education is necessary, but an autodidact who doesn't want to follow one of those career pathways now knows that they can go without.

American colleges provide a useful-if-overpriced service to non-autodidacts, but their product is not ready to deal with students who are YEARS behind in their formal education.

[red-iron-pine]

> if overpriced

"overpriced" is a vast understatement. overpriced would be if it costs $8k but is sold at $12k.

Instead the pricing is crippling, and instead of 8k it's 48k, and the average student will roll out with between 100k-200k in debt. debt that is not dischargable except in very rare, specific cases.

[thrwayaistartup]

> overpriced would be if it costs $8k but is sold at $12k. Instead the pricing is crippling, and instead of 8k it's 48k

The average college tuition and fees at four-year schools in 2020-2021 was $19,020.

> and the average student will roll out with between 100k-200k in debt

The average federal student loan debt is $37,338 per borrower.

Like I said, everyone keeps missing the point.