College Is Still Worth It Anymore By Ellen Ruppel Shell Summary

Ethan Hallett Ms Anderton Argument on Argument Essay 23 February 2024, Why College is Still Worth it Ellen Ruppel Shell wrote an article named “College May not be Worth it Anymore” In this article she discusses why we shouldn't go to college, “Last year, New York became the first state to offer all but its wealthiest residents tuition-free access to its public community colleges and four-year institutions. Though this Excelsior Scholarship didn’t make college completely free, it highlights the power of the pro-college movement in the United States”(Shell 1). She highlights that there is no longer a point in going to college because you can make the same amount of money without a college degree. She emphasizes in showing that not going to college means that you will get

She brings up evidence but never cites anything telling us that she doesn't have any other sources to use, “Americans strove to rise to that challenge: A third of them ages 25 to 29 now hold at least a bachelor’s degree, and many paid heavily for the privilege. By last summer, Americans owed more than $1.3 trillion in student loans, more than two and a half times what they owed a decade earlier” (Shell, 3). This highlights that she is using statistics that she is not citing at all. She is plagiarizing or making up statistics to go with her argument. This is one of the many uncited pieces of evidence in this article. If Shell cited all of the evidence used, she would have a believable argument that people may follow. Ellen Ruppel Shell brings up race too much in this article. You can see that she talks about how Black and Hispanic people have a much less chance of getting into elite colleges, “students from wealthy black and Hispanic families have a lower chance of attending an elite college than do students from middle-class white families.” This shows that she thinks that race is going to matter when getting into