The purpose of this study is to reveal the meaning of higher education in young people who have not entered college due to the poor economic conditions in the age of universal college entrance. For this purpose, I interviewed three young people who have not entered college because of poverty four to five times in depth and analyzed their contents. The main analysis is the experience of these young people s school education up to high school, the process and context of non-admission to college, and experience after college non admission. First, for these young people, higher education is not cost-effective. For them, college is considered to be an inadequate space or a not cost-effective place to study for life. Second, for poor youth, college is a space of extravagant romance. For them, higher education is only allowed for those who do not have to worry about poverty. Third, for those who did not enter college, higher education is idealized as a place where they can actively find and do the study they want. Fourth, higher education for poor young people is meaningful as an education to provide diplomas for employment and career. The process of rationalizing the reason for non-admission to college by these young people who have not gone to college because of poverty is a subjective process that actively interprets and accepts their situation. Despite these efforts, these young people experience discrimination as a high school graduate, which means that the individual pays for the poverty, not the one s fault, in the form of educational discrimination.