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“Plan”? Interests can change a lot during college. I don’t think very many people can reasonably claim they plan on going to graduate school while in high school. As a few examples:
<li>I had a friend who, in high school, desperately want to become a doctor. She enrolled in college as a biology major and, come to find out, she’s afraid of blood. I think she changed her major to sociology after that and left with a BA.</li>
<li>Another friend wanted to do physics research and get a PhD. As it turns out, she failed Physics I. She changed her major to finance and left with a BA.</li>
<li>Yet another friend wanted to go to graduate school in engineering. Turns out, he failed Calc I so he changed his major to music. As far as I know, he’s still in school.</li>
Most of the rest of my friends that matriculated to grad school decided in the last year or two of undergrad they were going after they realized they weren’t going to get the jobs they thought they were with their degree. I myself wasn’t planning on getting an MS, much less a PhD, but then by chance in my third year a professor offered me a spot in his lab and, two first author publications later in some of the highest impact journals in science, I decided to go for a PhD.
The point is, the future is too unpredictable 5 years out for you to say you “plan” on doing anything like that.
Well I always sorta figured I’d get some kind of graduate degree eventually when I was in HS. But that’s because I knew I wanted to study business and most of the people (mainly parents) that I knew who held business degrees had gotten MBAs.
The one benefit of obtaining a Phd when you are young? You can always fall back to teaching in colleges! LOL. Colleges 30 years ago often accepted M.A.s as sufficient to teach, or a law degree. Now they require a PhD for everything. So if you obtain your Phd and enter the for profit world or government world…and then decide mid life to change directions, you can find a job.
There is going to be a HUGE number of college professors retiring soon. Go to graduate school if you can. Its a lot of work and it means being poor for 6 more years but will pay dividends later in life.
If you don’t mind teaching at a smaller or more local college then you can get a position with a MS. No need to continue for the PhD which will pretty much make the same amount of money over the lifetime of the degree as a MS.
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