You seem to be the one not understanding. If the author describes this world as so discriminatory that people without superpowers are treated as not even human. Then of course it would make more sense to not go to college. Imagine being a Jew in N*z* Germany, or a freed slave trying to go to college in the south. If the society is as cruel as the author tries to make it out, then of course duds shouldn't go there. The author wants to have his cake and eat it too. On the one hand he describes the discrimination of the duds in a severe sense to the point that teens feel they can kill them and get away with it. On the other hand, he creates a government that seems to care for duds, and sets the setting as a technological place. In real life, thousands of journalists would be throwing themselves to do an expose "Pulitzer" prize story on the discrimination duds face. And all MC has to do is send the records of students and FACULTY abusing him. Sue and win.
