>> The sad reality is that for every person who drops out and achieves great success, far more do not. Also accurate: The sad reality is that for every person

>> The sad reality is that for every person who drops out and achieves great success, far more do not. Also accurate: The sad reality is that for every person who finishes college and achieves great success, far more do not. There's also a major sampling bias here, in that "all dropouts" includes those who dropped out because of laziness or similar reasons, rather than just those who dropped out because they found the cost of a degree to be far greater than it's value. Also, the cultural premium put on college degrees likely encourages many who could easily be successful as a dropout to finish anyway. There's a false argument here: the question isn't whether everyone should drop out or go to college, but whether or not there are cases where going to college is not the best decision (which is empirically true).