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High school graduates can pursue a wide variety of educational paths to prepare for a career.

interact with your peers on campus, and experiencing mentoring relationships with professors are all life-shaping opportunities. But the knowledge and skills one learns in college do not always translate to success once a college graduate begins a career. Some skills are learned on the job. Despite this, employers of workers in certain occupations continue to require a college diploma before they will even consider an application. “A college diploma is simply a credential [proof of achievement or qualifications] that at best says you’re smart and ambitious ,” says John Tamny, a political and economics writer, reacting to politicians who insist on the need to see more young people in America graduate from college. Yet despite the fact that a significant segment of society agrees with Tamny, many people today do see college as the only way to find a stable, well-paying career. This is part of the reason that in 2016, nearly seven out of every ten students in the United States who graduated from high school went on to

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