College, real college, isn’t for everyone any more than learning and becoming competent at a serious trade is for everyone.
The answer is a resounding yes If you have the intellect to actually learn at the college level and make use of what you learn.
The answer is no if you do not have the intellect.
Dumbing down colleges and moving low IQ students through in order to pump up diversity statistics doesn’t really educate those students - it just cheapens the entire process of higher education and makes the degree suspect.
And it sets the low-info graduate up for disappointment when they can’t perform at the graduate level in the workplace.
Many of us have worked with “college graduates” who can’t compose a complete sentence, speak understandably, or do simple arithmetic.
I recall that back in the 60's I went to school with many "students" who were majoring in staying out of the draft.
They took the easiest courses and had no intention of learning anything. I think this may have been a precursor to the soft soap studies courses of today.
Many current students are majoring in not growing up.
A former boss - a liberal do-gooder - was mentoring an inner city HS student and would eventually pay for her to go to college. Linda was insisting that this girl attend her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. Nicole was a good student, but her decent grades at Benjamin Franklin High School would be the equivalent to Cees and Dees at a suburban Blue Ribbon school. Her formalized test scores, including SAT, were lackluster too.
I repeatedly told Linda that she was setting Nicole up for failure. Yes, she would be admitted to Penn but she would struggle out of the gate and probably never complete her degree. We talked about this often. Linda laid off the pressure and Nicole decided to go to a state “teachers college” (Shippensburg U.) and graduated with a decent GPA. She’s now a teacher back in Philadelphia, making a difference in her community.