another consequence of this drive for everyone to go to college is the resultant dumbing down of our universities...not everyone is college material, and i do not mean that as a measure of intelligence...many very intelligent people just prefer to work with their hands, do construction, art, whatever, which should not require a college degree...people used to have the skills necessary to do a good job just by graduating high school, but unfortunately that is no longer the case in many alumni...so when these students have to get into college, of course the college lowers its standards and everyone suffers in the long run....we need more technical training, maybe even to start in high school, as they do in europe...and we need to make our universities really mean something again!