Argumentative Essay: Is College Worth The Debt?
In the Huffington Post they say that college is not worth the debt that you come out with, many people think that college is a waste of time and you come out with more debt than you will be earning in your year salary. Well they are wrong, yes you come out with roughly $24, 804 in debt of student loans for the average person getting a bachelor’s degree. You will start out $66, 200, that is $26, 150 more than someone with a high school diploma would earn in one year. Even if you paid off your student loans in that one year with $66, 200 you would still make more money in one year, while paying off all your student loans in one year, than someone with no student loans and only a high school diploma. So you tell me which sounds like a better option, making $41, 396 and paying off ALL student loans and still make more money than someone with only a high school diploma, or only making $40, 050, not paying loans? Personally
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Now don’t you think it would have been a good idea to just go to college out of high school get your degree and A. make more money and B. pay your debts off sooner rather than having to just start paying for them in your late 40’s. Honestly I do not see why people think of going to college as a bad thing. It has the best of both worlds, you can have a ton of fun, along with the added fact that you will learn about something you love to do if you go for the career you enjoy and C. you will make $10,000-$20,000 more a year and sometimes more depending on the degree you get if you just have the degree when you get the job. Now people are just going to contradict me and say well when you go to college and get a degree all you come out with is a bunch of debt and it hard to get a
Now don’t you think it would have been a good idea to just go to college out of high school get your degree and A. make more money and B. pay your debts off sooner rather than having to just start paying for them in your late 40’s. Honestly I do not see why people think of going to college as a bad thing. It has the best of both worlds, you can have a ton of fun, along with the added fact that you will learn about something you love to do if you go for the career you enjoy and C. you will make $10,000-$20,000 more a year and sometimes more depending on the degree you get if you just have the degree when you get the job. Now people are just going to contradict me and say well when you go to college and get a degree all you come out with is a bunch of debt and it hard to get a