5 Questions To Ask Before Your Child Decides Where To Go To College

janniswerner via Getty Images Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And given that the national average for students who don’t return to the same college after their freshman year is about 33 percent, there apparently is a lot of that going around. Their high school peers who graduated in four years and got jobs will be vying for promotions while they’re still trying to land a first job. They start to look like a bargain, though, when you consider that they will graduate your child in four years compared to another school that will take six years or more. Students changing majors in and of itself isn’t a big deal, according to Lynn O’Shaughnessy, a national college expert who runs the College Solution blog.