College is a place for higher learning and for one to grow as a person and develop into the person that they will be for the rest of their lives. College is a time of growth and and experiencing new things that also help you grow as a person.
Many people just view college as a place that you go after high school to further your education and eventually get a job, this is true in a sense but this is not the only thing that colleges provide. As an incoming freshman, to any institution you are entering a world of new opportunities and many new activities and groups that you may not have been exposed to in high school. On a college campus you can find people from all walks of life, with different beliefs and cultures all coming together in the same learning environment bringing their own experiences and traditions, and it is this diversity that makes college so special and unique.
For most jobs these days after school they require more then just a a high GPA. Many jobs require experience and extra curricular activities and the graph below shows the importance of attributes when jobs are evaluating college graduates for hire.
What people think of most when they think of college is that it is still in fact school and that you have to do tons of work and its just like high school where you are forced to sit through classes that you don't have interest in. College offers many different majors and topics for you to choose from so that you find something you enjoy study, College is built around you and your ambitions and by having so many majors they try to help you find what you are interested in so that college is a place of learning but also a place you can grow.
http://www.americangap.org/research.php
Source 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p0Ul-XRgIA
source 3
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-thing-employers-look-for-when-hiring-recent-graduates/378693/
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