> We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. I chose not to pursue higher education personally (

> We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. I chose not to pursue higher education personally (at the time for the wrong reasons), and one thing I remember very distinctly was just how much it was promoted as “the path forward”. A counselor was visibly shocked when I as a sophomore, hadn’t been grooming myself to appeal to colleges and universities in a few years.