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College certainly isn't for everyone but for those who do want to get a degree it is alway manageable.
"...Returns vary sharply; they are negative for more than 100 schools and over 11% a year for ones like Harvey Mudd College in California, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia. Dartmouth, Harvard, Stanford and Princeton are over 10%, but so is Queens College in New York—where state residents pay just over $5,000 a year in tuition, versus about $41,000 for Stanford.
Take a look at the tuition rate at Queens College (cited above) and the company that school keeps in terms of returns one gets from going there..You can get a first-rate education there ( I know I teach there) at rock bottom prices. Elsewhere you can alway go to a relatively inexpensive community college for the first two years (where you may very well get better grades) and then transfer to the college of your choice.
Bad times call for flexibility and a willingness to go about the enterprise with a workable strategy...