Is College Education the Best Option for Everyone?

Juliana Garces-Perez

Professor Matthews

English 101

10-13-16

Is College Education the best option for everyone?

Is college really the best option for everyone or is there another option for becoming successful instead of going to college? This survey is going to have ten questions to help determine the aftermath of peoples’ “college experience”, to get know if college is actually relevant to people's life now or if it was just a waste of time for some people”, and if there could have been another option for them depending on their career. In most public schools, students are encouraged to plan their whole life to get good grades and to get into a good school. Is it possible that there could have been another option, and if so, should high schools educate more on the other possible ways of becoming successful?

In the They Say, I Say college blog, most of the people inputting their opinion are saying how college is the best option because there is at least one college that has the major any person is trying to pursue. For example, in the blog, Michael Brody says “Is the teaching assistant on your list? Probably not. In the Mississippi Delta communities around Greenville, however, the position of teaching assistant ranks quite high.” Basically, what he isthis guy is saying is that there is a major for almost anything you want to do,. aAnd college is the best way to get there. A specific job like teacher assistant is something that not a lot of people might grow up thinking about doing but it’s there, and it’s an option for you as a major if any person wants it.

In order to get my answer to “Is College Education the best option for everyone?” I conducted a survey using surveymonkey.com in which there were seven7 closed questions and asked only people that had gone to college to answer the questions. I sent the link to my survey to some of my family friends and family members to take my survey. and Tthe reason that they had to have gone to college was