A couple of my other law school/lawyer friends have mentioned the same thing before, actually RE: Government coming at UoP and other such schools for student loan default. I've heard it's on par with the predatory lending from the housing crisis/crash a few years back.
Advisors, particularly Enrollment and Financial, are basically trained in the art of manipulation. They are trained on the emotional needs/concerns of "students" and how to calm them/ramp them up for school. They prey on the insecurities of the students (teen pregnancies, college dropouts, military, etc.) and sell them a fantastic dream of a graduate/an escape from their shitty worlds. Obviously education is a way out of that, but the sad truth is that it really isn't going to help a lot of these people, and it is only further going to saturate the market with "needing a degree", something I think is absolute bullshit and even peddled to middle and upper class kids.
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