By: Roxie Shafii

Roxie Shafii
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:39:59 +0000

I agree with you in that those problems are incredibly real and prevalent, heck my parents drill that into me every time I see them, and I'm a Biology major! However, I disagree with the last statement. You rarely hear any alumni 20 years after college gushing about all the friends they made in community college before they transferred and all the cool people they met as a transfer in a 50,000 person school living in some off campus apartment. It can be difficult. My parents still hang out with their undergrad friends every weekend, even after immigrating to the US, graduate school, raising a child etc. By your rules, nobody should go to medical school either because nursing school is cheaper! This isn't a battle between private vs. public school. I can understand that people value different things when it comes to making college decisions so I think we can agree to disagree on that point. The question posed by this article is why do people leave a university? For some people, its finances, and for a lot of other people, it's a lack of connection and disillusionment with what they first thought was a good fit.