Postponing College Advice: Don't Take the Summer Off!

Tips and advice for both high school students and parents on early college admissions and attendance. Postponing the college process can only make it more difficult. For more College Acceptance Tips, visit: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/collegeknowledge/2008/10/2/6-top-tips-from-colleg...

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[Ev105]

Nothing pompus about it.You can learn more outside of the classroom if you spend your time right. You might even be better prepared for class if you've learned things by taking guided tours.

I had a sociology teacher in H.S. even recommend a year off

The only reason some people "need" comments to be short is that they have a short attention span to begin with.

The max-character count is 500. If you can't sit though 500 characters, get on Ritalin.

That's 468.

[deangelomega]

this advice sucked for me. if you do straight school with no break, there is also a high probability of being burnt out. i went to college in the summer right after high school, 2 full years (including summer school) later i was completely burnt out and almost failed out of college. i believe that students should figure out what they want to do in the summer before taking classes instead of just taking classes in the summer.

[DisasterBlaster500]

College should be an OPTION, not a necessity. A person shouldn't need a degree in order to get a good job and support their family.

[prophet840]

What about the exorbitant rate at which freshman drop- or fail-out of their four-year program? My guess is that 99% of them didn't take a year off, and who knows what the outcome would have been, had they gone that route.

Our society is insane in its orientation toward higher education. We should have more respect for electricians and nurses and less for people like me, who got a bachelor's degree to push paper through a big bureaucracy.

[mikeym820]

Very astute. She is absolutely correct.

[Argonaut22j]

It depends on the kid! If you don't know what you want to do I say TAKE A FEW YEARS OFF.

Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on four years that you aren't ready for, that you aren't mature enough to handle, and aren't responsible enough to do well during, is a mistake.

Better to work minimum wage for awhile and go to school later, if that's the case. I wouldn't have wanted my little bro to have gone straight to college! Glad he didn't!

[rikku5566]

shes is right cuss my best friend is done w/college and is a lawyer. though u can land a "non college degree job" but its rare and better off w/a college degree. though for what i want to do till i get a degree in Neurology and prosecutor is being a insurance consultant i believe i do not need a degree but its rly hard to get into that field -_-

[rebdomine]

"I've read studies" and "the research shows"

What research? The media's rehash of biased studies? I don't buy it at all!

[rebdomine]

Yep she's dead wrong. My experience was the opposite. I took 3 years off after graduating high school and everyone is different, to give such blanket advice without knowing individual circumstances is just plain ignorant and quite frankly stupid.

[amaye23]

"No one cares what you have to say, this is internet."

I agree. Now stop talking.

[Agogaraxis]

shes wrong the worst thing for me was "jumping the gun" in on this type of thing when i was out of high school. I should have taken time off instead of burning out inside of classrooms and with the clusters of people who are closed minded inside-the-box indoors and uptight type people.