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Message: [QUOTE="BPT2Storrs, post: 3559133, member: 7746"] Based on this thread it seems as if the college admissions process is still as grueling as it was 15 years ago when I was in HS. What I find troubling is that we still place this massive emphasis on college. It has caused costs to skyrocket for everyone, which has put many people (primarily the underprivileged and working class) in ridiculous debt. On the other side, we now fail to train anyone for work in the trades or manufacturing which are absolutely critical for our economy, thus causing those costs to also skyrocket due to the lack of skilled workforce. This impacts everyone. Think of all the people in the workforce with college degrees, do all of those jobs and salaries justify the college investment? Is a degree really required for all of them? To all of you with careers, how much was learned in college v. on the job experience? I would assume a majority would say the latter. SAT, ACT, the college admissions process, etc. are interesting topics to debate. As someone who has two degrees, I am not against college or the SAT, but as someone who had to work extremely hard and never had much luck with standardized testing I definitely tend to critique the system at times. [/QUOTE]