The college dropout rate

There are many reasons we dropout of college before graduating. Here are some of the psychological reasons I've explored in this blog:

1. You may be feeling labeled as a "defective student" when you actually love to learn what interests you and gives you motivation.
2. You may be angry about exorbitant tuition increases that charge more for the same old useless courses.
3. You may feel deeply misunderstood and neglected by the administration's obvious attempts to improve student retention and success rates.
4. You may have realized that an expensive diploma and transcript does not accurately tell future employers how well you'll really do in a new job.
5. You may have discovered that your college is mismanaged and wasting your money on expenditures unrelated to delivering a quality education.
6. You may been tried to change how you're getting taught, graded or advised and hit a wall of bureaucratic stagnation.
7. You may have become aware of free online course materials that suggest college courses should stop lecturing you and delivering content you can get online.
8. You may not be getting the proactive support you need from the college to accompany your great attitude and determination to graduate.
9. You may have already learned a lot on your own like computer hackers who learn more when they're not getting taught in classrooms.
10. You may have become extremely techno-savvy and find college expects you to be overly passive and dependent on the techno-newbie instructor.
11. You may have become consumed by your focus on dropping out and have lost sight of where to be headed.
12. You may have become an expert in what you don't want to experience and not yet defined what you really desire.
13. You may be unwilling to prepare for the future as if it will look like the business world and economy your parents have worked in all these years.
    
14. You may be getting forced to take a stance against staying in college because you're getting pressured by those who won't admit they might be wrong.
15. You may be the fallout of a closed system that cannot adjust itself with feedback about the unintentional harm it's doing to people.
16. You may have lost your dignity will trying to keep up with an oppressive college workload and are considering drastic action to stop acting like a machine.
17. You may be bored by college because you welcome tougher problems to solve, bigger challenges and opportunities to make a real difference.
18. You may be defying the exploitation of a captive market for college diplomas that manipulates parents/students into paying big bucks for scams and rip-offs.
19. You may be suffering from high levels of anxiety that is undermining your ability to concentrate, think clearly and make new connections in your mind.
20. You may be challenging the assumptions and foregone conclusions about college educations with your own creativity and critical thinking.
21. You may getting protected from the Internet that you're parents perceive as dangerous and finding their advice to be wrong for your generation.
22. You may be realizing that all your reasons to stay in college seem bogus and your sense of getting a real education cannot happen in college.
23. You may have fallen through the cracks of the big impersonal system that failed to transition you when you were an incoming student.
24. You may be part of your college's plan to overbook enrollment and only accommodate the survival of the fittest students.
25. You may be getting stereotyped by a system that cannot hack the pressures on it to change -- as someone who cannot hack academic pressures.
26. You may be entangled with advice from helicopter parents who are messing with your mind, self confidence and your own ability to take risks.