Subsidizing non-college career options would fix that, but really it would probably just be easier to expand college options to include non-degree career paths so that those options fall under the college umbrella.

Really though, people might choose to go to college to see what they are capable of and take on a challenge with the possibility of failure already planned. They might already know they can do an alternate career path as well.

The idea that everyone will have their life planned out before college is silly. I certainly have no idea how well I would do in every college degree program. I could be great, or I could suck.