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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Starting salaries in most of Europe also tend to be lower than in the US. I really can’t understand why anyone would go to college in the US for anything but a degree that you know is going to land you a high paying job, since you will absolutely need that to get rid of the massive debt you’ve probably acquired. If you know how expensive college is and you know that the jobs your chosen degree will probably land you are not very economically rewarding, pursuing that degree is a very stupid decision financially speaking.

Also, i can’t speak for the rest of Europe, but in my country you take a test and list your preferred degrees, and admission is done purely based on the highest scores. That is the most fair way to do it IMO, the US system is atrocious, but it also means that required level can vary greatly between years, and that degrees with low demand sometimes just require you to pass said test, something that is pretty easy to achieve.
gpt
&gt;I really can’t understand why anyone would go to college in the US for anything but a degree that you know is going to land you a high paying job

Because for the past few decades everyone has been told that you can't be successful unless you go to college so kids go to college and major in basket weaving or gender studies and have zero job prospects. The same people pushing this college bullshit also tend to look down on people that learned trades so now we have a shortage of labor there as well.