Money. These days education promises much, but delivers little. You must go into $45,000 student loan debt for a degree that may or may not be worth anything on the job market, and whether it is or is not, you will still be on the hook to pay it....even if that degree will only qualify you to work at minimum wage. If you have a reasonable chance to make good money without college (say a trade school or apprenticeship situation), you would be foolish to choose a degree over money.