Do you foresee the bachelor degree requirement ever going away

[Carnivore]

AI is a trip....

Let's say I want to write a report dazzle the client and intended users of the appraisal report using big words. I suppose a thesaurus would be helpful.

AI Response
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[Dale Floyd]

I think there’s two competing discussions blended into this thread.

College degrees are overrated and we’ve abandoned the trades while pushing every kid to seek college educations today. That’s just a fact.

But as long as that remains the norm, then a good argument exists that a future appraiser should remain linked to somebody with a degree or have a comparable educational background, as long as it is related to our industry. In Tennessee attending a state college after high school is free for two years. We do want those with some ambition to be in all our professions.

If we discontinue the push into college across the board, and return our bright minded graduates into the mindset of success through real world experience and “career specific” paths of learning, then the degree requirements should be completely re-thought.

The appraisal world cannot fix this by pulling the plug on higher learning requirements alone.

 

[Zoe]

The last year my daughter was at Stanford I paid tuition, housing, etc about $70,000 or something like that.
Did she learned $70,000 in knowledge. No.
But it helped her in getting a good job and met her husband doctor. So it was worthed it.

Yeah I had to loan a doctor money to pay IRS when he had one child at Harvard and one at Stanford or Yale. That has been a long time ago and he was paying like $50K a year in tuition for each child. The one at Harvard graduated number 1 in pre med and got a full ride to medical school.

But he was making about $400K a year as an endocrinologist and working emergency room on weekends.

 

[Zoe]

I think there’s two competing discussions blended into this thread.

College degrees are overrated and we’ve abandoned the trades while pushing every kid to seek college educations today. That’s just a fact.

But as long as that remains the norm, then a good argument exists that a future appraiser should remain linked to somebody with a degree or have a comparable educational background, as long as it is related to our industry. In Tennessee attending a state college after high school is free for two years. We do want those with some ambition to be in all our professions.

If we discontinue the push into college across the board, and return our bright minded graduates into the mindset of success through real world experience and “career specific” paths of learning, then the degree requirements should be completely re-thought.

The appraisal world cannot fix this by pulling the plug on higher learning requirements alone.

yeah. What profession don't require a college degree? There may be a few. Not many that don't require a college degree.

 

[Dale Floyd]

yeah. What profession don't require a college degree? There may be a few. Not many that don't require a college degree.

That's my point. For appraisers to pull out of those requirements alone will have no impact and leave us with those lacking endurance or ambition to join our ranks in today's society. (Not meant to be a blanket statement, but you know what I mean.) It would take all professions to rethink degree requirements in my mind, for me to support a change to the status quo today.

 

[Carnivore]

so again
i see no need for a degree requirement in appraising. I do see where specific college courses in appraising would be very very helpful.
The issue for residential Appraisers is the compensation. There are too many other Opportunities out there where you can make as much and even more than appraisers. Yes, you give up control over your time.

 

[Zoe]

That's my point. For appraisers to pull out of those requirements alone will have no impact and leave us with those lacking endurance or ambition to join our ranks in today's society. (Not meant to be a blanket statement, but you know what I mean.) It would take all professions to rethink degree requirements in my mind, for me to support a change to the status quo today.

Probably everybody on the ASC has a college degree. Don't let switch gears and run down ASC and TAF and a few others.

 

[Carnivore]

There's talk about dropping it, and they should. And I saw this with someone with the right degree (BBA in Real Estate from a good program). If they don't drop the degree requirement, they should at least constrain it to economics, accounting or real estate.

Well that's a problem because you likely would have to do those courses on line as opposed to in person. We do that now in our current path.

So colleges don't normally limit courses like your suggesting. They want you to buy the whole meal.

 

[ucbruin]

How many of you college grads went to college....
Because it was expected of you....
By your parents....

 

[cashcatz]

How many of you college grads went to college....
Because it was expected of you....
By your parents....

My parents did the whole "go to college, we'll pay for it" and stuck me with the bill. If I were to redo it, I'd have gone to community college first (cheaper) and worked a lot more to pay my way (I still worked, but only summers). Even then, many majors just aren't worth it. For example, you don't need college to become a great software developer if you're motivated enough (lucky there's less industry and licensing gatekeeping in tech - you either know your stuff or your code doesn't compile). Ditto for fake degrees that include "studies" or "Phd." that don't result in a medical license. All of those "studies" can be done by for free by reading books and watching good YouTube talks by experts, maybe a few passport stamps and internship/apprenticeships.