The conservative author Charles Murray argued in his 2018 book "Real Education" that the true crisis in American higher education is not that too few young Americans are getting a college education. It is that too many are. Because of Americans' natural tendency toward "educational romanticizing" Murray wrote, we push students to go to college who are simply not smart enough to be there. High school guidance counselors and college admissions officers, lost in a "fog of wishful thinking, euphemisms, and well-intentioned egalitarianism" encourage low IQ, low-income students to attend colleges that are too intellectually demanding. When these students discover that they don't possess the intelligence necessary to do the work, they drop out.