> College needs to be a business decision on the part of the individual. As much as I agree, can we just step back and think about how much pressure is put on

> College needs to be a business decision on the part of the individual. As much as I agree, can we just step back and think about how much pressure is put on these 17, 18, 19 year olds? Parents, counselors, and other adults have to do a better job helping these kids to make sound decisions around their major and college they attend. I didn't have anyone coaching me to think about my debt load vs. what my career prospects would be, so I basically lucked out that I chose computer science as my major in my freshman year after coming in undeclared to a UGA, a public school. Pell grant and Georgia's HOPE Scholarship helped to reduce the amount of debt I took on, and I lived in Athens, a cheap college town, and paid $265-300 a month for my rent. I feel so bad for people who didn't have such luck and are now getting crushed under the weight of an un-marketable degree and a heavy student loan burden. Seems so unfair.