David T. Conley's "College & Career Ready" Intro. (Response & Inquiry)

So, in the book intro, Conley mentions students in high school tend to base their course choices on comfort (friends in class), or they are categorized by their faculty/administration based on their "race, ethnicity, income, or gender" (3). So, ultimately the outcome or product of this is that they have a high school diploma seen more "as a measure of social compliance than academic skills" (3). Which brings us to the ultimate question: Are students who are labeled college ready, really ready for college? This does however exclude career readiness from the title of the book, but in this portion I would like to focus on college readiness or "post-secondary readiness", not focusing specifically on college admission, which in itself is an enormous time consuming complex task to many students. So students focus on the issue at hand which is getting into college (college admission), rather than focusing on college experience and academic expectations by faculty/administration.