Here's a stat that stopped me cold: 40% of college students don't even graduate within six years. That's not a small fringe—that's millions of people with debt and no degree to show for it.
You're focusing on doctors and pro athletes. But those are exceptions, not the rule. For every successful med school grad, there's someone with a psychology degree working retail. The system has terrible signal-to-noise ratio.
And that 96% match rate? That's for people who already got into med school. You're skipping the whole filter before that—the pre-med weed-out classes, the MCAT, the insane competition. It's like saying 100% of people who summit Everest survive the descent. Technically true, but ignores the climb.
Look, college can work. But we're treating it like the default path when it's really a high-stakes gamble. Apprenticeships and trades give you a career with zero downside. That's just better physics—no debt, real skills, immediate momentum.
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