Pretty much. People commonly took the bait without first working out the numbers on these bigger loans to go to these 4/5 year universities. A lot of marketing was pushed towards our parents too, since their generation mentality of "get a degree and get a career" was basically what you were expected to do.

I can't really relate though, i just took out FASFA and a few scholarship grants and went to a local community college and was covered based off my grades alone. An AS degree alone was worth it. But i also took several different career paths, which was looked down on by many of our parents, where they expected you to stay with a company for a long time. I think regardless of the pressure, we all came out better in our own individual ways, and progressed much further than our previous generations.