They could skip college and enter the work force full time. If they start on the bottom of a company with upward tracks, they could train OTJ and go to college a few hrs at a time.
That’s what I did, except I started out in the business world, then went to college as I could. Made all the way to junior, at which point a piece of paper on the wall would have been of no financial benefit. So I didn’t cost my Dad a dime and had no student loans to repay.