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Re:Surprising Things About School by sotojuan on Monday March 12, 2018 @11:03AM (#16568579)
Most advice parents or anyone who went to college before say, the mid 90s or before is fairly useless anyway, unless it's study advice. The job market, costs of college, and many other factors are incredibly different.

Just as an example, I had a friend in your situation but whose parents encouraged him to go to an expensive school and not worry too much what to study. You can probably guess what would've happened if he didn't end up doing his own research instead.

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Re:Surprising Things About School by lallysingh on Monday March 12, 2018 @11:06AM (#16568606)
Like anything else, they should be able to teach you to fish. I.e. find out where to get the info you need.
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Re:Surprising Things About School by sotojuan on Monday March 12, 2018 @11:11AM (#16568646)
Most middle class parents who aren't first or second generation immigrants won't even know the answer to this. To them, the answer is "high school counselor" or another similarly uninformed high school individual. Maybe millennial parents will be the first to recommend internet forums or similar.

Again, for them, it was a very different world.

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