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Rory O’Sullivan: Selling More Debt Than Degrees

An excerpt from Young Invincibles’ Deputy Director Rory O’Sullivan’s op-ed for U.S. News & World Report:

“‘You’re supposed to find the pain that’s driving them to go back to school, and use that to get them to enroll.’

‘I fed off of their own shame, their own disgust they had with their own lives.’

That’s two former recruiters explaining how they reeled in students in one of the worst for-profit colleges – schools that promise career-ready training, usually at a steep cost, often financed through loans that the students have little capacity to repay based on the poor quality of their education.” Read more here.