this advice is applicable for .02% of the population. For the vast majority of people (even in top n-schools) there is value that isn’t just signaling. We can debate the roi on that all day, but the generalized advice is dangerous, take it from a college dropout.https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1213325247320969218 …
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What are the 2-3 most under appreciated things the “drop out” advocates miss?
College is often the best mechanism we have to get someone out of their local context. Broadening prospective, rounding social skills, and intellectually humbling are all useful side effects Even my deeply nefarious alma mater that I went into incurable debt for seemed to do t
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Do you feel there are alternative mechanisms to achieve the majority of these outcomes at far lower financial and opportunity costs?
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Absolutely. as scalable as the university system today? Absolutely not.
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