The Harvard University admissions rate is now 3%.....

[Yavin4]

17. We greatly misuse our colleges and universities.

Higher academia is there to prepare students for even higher academia. A decent undergrad program is designed to prepare you for a graduate program. Most decent graduate programs prepare you for becoming a professor and/or researcher.

We use our colleges and universities to prepare people for careers which is dumb. This is the main reason why so many college graduates find the transition to the career world so difficult and struggle with student loans.

What we need are more vocational training schools. I know that the word "vocation" triggers boomers because they immediately think of their high school shop class. But, all careers are a vocation where you train and apprentice. If you want to build a career in something, you should go to a vocational school.

We should extend high school to 14 years using the last two years as preparation for vocational training. If you want to work in finance, marketing, accounting, IT, etc. You would go to a vocational school for those disciplines for two years or so, and then you would work as an apprentice in that field. I would even do this for lawyers.

Colleges and universities would be reserved for those that want to work in academia and do research. Our higher educational system has become this stupid game of pursuing status.