Who should NOT study uni/college?

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Who should NOT study uni/college? Especially so for people like us, please speak from your experiences on uni/college and share with us who must not study in uni/college, as this will be helpful for high school students here who are transitioning to the next stage of their life...

Two types of people: People there to party and people there just to play football.

I can not tell you how annoying it is to be in a class with a football player. Some are actually cool, and do the work for the class, but most are arrogant pricks that don't do any of the work (yet somehow manage to still get As), and just sit in the back of the class, talking or making exceptionally rude, loud comments about the professors.

Though I suppose the people there to party should stay, they tend to shift the grading curve, thus allowing me to be lazier in those classes and still get an A.

Well, I would say the most important part is being self-motivated. In University, you have lectures, and that's it. You have to complete assignments on your own time, and make time to study. It's not like high school, where the majority of time in class is given to do assignments and there is no designated "study hall" time.

In addition, professors and TAs aren't afraid to give failing grades to work they consider to be high-school level. As an adult, the only way that you can appeal a grade is if a genuine unfairness has been committed. Most grade appeals are thrown out.

People should go to University if they can take responsibility for their own actions, and are willing to make time for the work.

Not sure what you mean by "people like us". I think some people have the natural talent to do better in what I would call a "trade school" than what I think of as a normal university setting.

I don't know how uni works in the US, but where I live, you have to take care of lots of things: organise your courses and schedule by yourself, you're responsible for timing your working pace and you're pretty much left alone in uncertainity about a lot of things.

For some with ASDs and AD(H)D that's a total no-go.

For some with ASDs and AD(H)D that environment is perfect and vastly non-problematic.

I guess I will enter a party school in university setting to see whether I fit uni. Either I get all Aces there (thanks to me withstanding booze) or I flunk my way out through drinking... I just want to explore myself and give myself a challenge to attempt