Fact 1: College Graduation Fact Impact on Student

In today's modern age, colleges have more students and becoming more standardized for one's educational level. It becomes important for a good number of reasons which one is to help the student to prepare their knowledge before entering the workforce. However, the pace of graduation solely depends on the student's capability of effort and knowledge intake. As a result, different students have different graduation date. For many learners, their inability to adapt to the college's environment extends their duration of school up to 2 years than the typical 4-years-graduation. In fact, less than one-third of the student population who started in public college will graduate within 6 years. (Cappex).

The fact that was published by the US Department of Education has a serious flaw within it. This makes the data of the department less dependable.  The universities and colleges are required to report to the US Department of Education about their statistics of graduation data and their progress. However, the report is restricted only to first-time and full-time students and it left out the part-time students and transfer students. The colleges are reported their data about the freshman student who graduates in the same school while those who transferred will never be counted as the graduate despite they graduated elsewhere. The same fate goes for the part-time student and dropped out students. This shows that the fact is not entirely correct and there could be some critical factor number that the reports are missing. (Cappex).

The facts are created to reminds us of the challenges we face, and it's our job to overcome with given information. Like many things in life, college is not an easy road to have and the student must be self-motivated and self-determined to pass many obstacles. Therefore, it's critical to find a solution to keep the discipline and motivation high. Before attending college, the student needs to develop a goal and a plan on what they want to get out of college. This helps the student to stay on track of finish college and not wasting their time and resources. If the student doesn't have a well-developed plan, they don't have a vision; if they don't have a vision, the road to graduation seems to belong and joyless. Thus, many dropped out because they don't see their final destination of college and resulted in a lack of motivation. 

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Citation: https://www.cappex.com/articles/blog/government-publishes-graduation-rate-data (Cappex).