re: College Enrollment Rates of Recent High School Grads, Dropping Since 2009

quote:

---

Hopefully, more folks are going into trades.

---

This. I actually see it as a positive trend/reality check. The typical college education does not provide specific skills that prepare students for a specific occupation by design; it's a general education. College students should be prepared to go to graduate school to get into some profession: law, medicine, pharmacy, engineering, etc. If you don't plan on going into one of these professions, you should seriously consider going a more technical route to get specific skills needed to fill a defined job.