50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Are you inferring that marriage is a waste of time?
Only 4 out of 7 people who enter college graduate within 6 years.
Too many that are poorly prepared and lack the 'fire in their bellies' to persevere and finish start anyway. A good 30% of the folks in my freshman dorm did not come back after Christmas.
It is actually best to flunk out early if you're going to flunk out. Too many of my son a daughter's friends drifted for years and accumulated loads of debt. I encourage every rising student to read both The World is Flat and Generation Debt. Then spend a few minutes perusing the horror stories on StudentLoanJustice.org.
The solution is to be both highly motivated and make prudent decisions.
Yes, but that stat is deceiving as well. Yes, of ten marriage ceremonies five might end in divorce. But the more interesting statistic is that of those five failures, a pretty high percentage are second and third marriarges. A more accurate statistic would be to look at the number of people that get married and stay married. THAT figure is pretty decent.