answer:When I was that age I wish people would have quit telling me it was about the education I got in my classes. It really wasn’t and it became really obvious once I got there. Freshman classes had so little to do with what I thought I was there to learn. College is about learning how to handle all aspects of life and proving you can do it all at a high level. It’s training to balance studying with social obligations, paying bills on time, handling group projects, and proving to yourself and others that you can handle it when things go wrong. It’s finding out what works for you in terms of getting things done. The “things” don’t matter nearly as much as learning how you personally can deal with them best. It’s also about proving you can get enough done to finish a degree to potential employers, but that comes much later. There’s great networking and resources available through most colleges, but again, that’s a lot later. And yes, you learn a lot of wonderful things that you probably couldn’t pick up on your own. But unfortunately, that comes later as well. Tell her it’s a lot of fun, it’s hard, and she can do it. Then tell her the truth about what she’s there to do and the alternatives. Show her job listings if you want and see how many require a college degree to be considered. Explain that the people that handle the resumes first for those positions usually don’t even understand what the person they’re hiring does, they just have to hand in x resumes to the next level that meet the requirements. Tell her she’ll always have that advantage, those experiences, those friends, and there’s no time like where she’s at in her life to get them.