Is college/university worth it?

I'm going to tell you what I wish someone told me when I was in High School. College is not a place to learn for fun, it is not a place to expand your horizons. The sole purpose of college is to earn the degree that aligns the best with your future occupation prospects (unless you decide to go to grad school, thats entirely different)

Not all jobs require a degree, these are the exceptions:

-Performance Industry: You don't need a degree to prove you have talent, nor will college make you more talented. Most famous musician/singer/comedian/actor/models never went to college.

-Art: Again, someone who's good at painting, isn't going to sell more paintings because they have a degree in it. Same goes for photography/drawing/sculpting.

-Self-Employed: This is an umbrella term, but if you want to be a writer, start a business, or open a store or restaurant, a degree isn't necessarily going to help you. You may learn budgeting and business-pitch skills, but nothing more than what you can learn from the internet or books.

Notice that all these occupations require a whole lot of luck. All other occupations require a degree. If you can't see yourself doing the jobs I listed, you pretty much have to go to college. (Unless you're cool with minimum wage)

The beauty of a degree is that it almost ensures you employment. Take that with a grain of salt, Obviously an Art major isn't going to be hired for Engineering position.

This is what I recommend: Sign up for community college so you can get your Gen-eds done. This will give you a year or so to decide on a major. Once you've settled on a major, transfer to a University.

Remember, don't pick a major just because you think it sounds "fun." Pick one that will get you the job you want.

To answer your bonus question, No. Your test scores are not good at all. But luckily for you, it really doesn't matter. College is not high school. Your professors are not there to help you understand. You have to take care of yourself. Get a tutor, study, take notes, in the end you get a piece of paper that basically says "I deserve a job."

You're worried about being a nobody? Newsflash, once you leave high school, you are all nobodies. Being popular gets you nothing in the real world. Be the person you want to be, and you won't feel like a nobody. Good luck and I hope my advice was useful to you (:

Please consider taking a "gap year" to work and think about things. You might also look into taking one class at a local community college just to see what you think.

Your test scores are too low to get you into most 4-year universities. The point of college/university is advanced academic study. It isn't a trade school or job training. If you don't have the heart or mind for academics, college won't e a good experience for you.

There are lots of wonderful people who are happy, health and making decent money who chose a career that didn't required a Bachelor's degree. Work for a year and see if there is anything that you think you might like to do. Then pursue it.

Pros:

- Think of all that dough you will make and how great it will be to laugh at all the paupers around you once you have finished. This allows you to do cool things like burn money in front of the homeless and buy a bottle of grey goose for everyone in a club and then put it on instagram.

Cons:

- You will feel trapped, university is another world, you end up locked in your room in despair trying to stay away from the world.

- None of the people you meet will compare to the friends you already have back home. No one wants to admit this however, and so as a result everyone is fake and pretends to be having the best time ever before secretly crying all the way home for christmas.

- Nothing good ever happens at Freshers, you either get ill, don't go out and are instantly labelled boring or you get a STD.

Neither SAT or ACT scores are indicators of success, wealth, winning.

Better spend some months years learning reading about careers jobs that actually leads to employment and good paying jobs locally.

THAT is why you Actually attend college.

Since u clueless about WHY What u going to college for DON'T.

Attend local community colleges for first two to three years of degree or even better programs leading to employment and good paying jobs locally.

Use a library b4 u waste your time effort money enthusiasm at 4yrs school.

Will save you 10000s$.