> 40% of high school students don't go to college (of any type).
> Among adult Americans, only a third have bachelors degrees
So clearly things have been changing in recent decades. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this as a factor.
> Among adult Americans, only a third have bachelors degrees
So clearly things have been changing in recent decades. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this as a factor.
From a quick search:
Between 2011 and 2021, the percentage of people age 25 and older who had completed a bachelor's degree or higher increased by 7.5 percentage points from 30.4% to 37.9%[1].
It would be helpful to get an attainment by age by year breakdown.
And this still doesn't address the OP's hypothesis that part of the increase in mental health issues is due to increasing admissions pressure over the years, which many people have brought up anecdotally. Whether or not the majority of high schoolers experience that pressure doesn't imply that it still couldn't be part of the problem (which also, incidentally, isn't experienced by a majority of high schoolers).
[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/educatio...
There is a bitch slap of boomers and beleaguered birth rate around the corner.
The meager birth rate and dying boomers are real world paychecks and tax revenue drying up. Society is going to change drastically, and it will seem all at once.
All the corps are going to have to pull back when those boomers stop spending and there aren't enough feeders to replace them.