Does it not put the student under a lot of pressure academically and financially? However, scrutinizing Harvard University through the lens of Ms. Lowrey’s “college label” or a “scorecard” brings a perfect picture of a highly ranked university creating a perfect atmosphere for its students. Any student picturing Harvard from a scorecard would be amazed but oblivious to the ever-looming requirements that plague a student throughout the years of study. Should a weaker student from a billionaire family enter Harvard? I do not think
According to Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill, in their essay Should Everyone Go to College?, claim that the return of investment from going to college depends on the degree, institution, and how long a student stays in college. There is a different return of investment for each different degree. For example, according to the graph on page 215, Engineering is paid more than education. Therefore a student attending college for an engineering degree would have a greater return of investment then a student attending college for a degree in education. The return of investment is also dependent on the kind of institution a student attends.
When it come to picking a college it's going off based on what the student environment, learning type, and etc. I believe another essay that ties into Liz Addison Essay is “ Colleges Prepares People for Life” by Freeman Hrabowski. Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, in his essay he argues “echoed an increasingly common refrain that college is expensive, that students are taking on unmanageable debt and that they too often graduate unprepared for the world of work” (259). According to both Addison and Hrabowski, college is expensive, but Addison believes that there are ways around paying a high cost of going to college. In addition, Hrabowski feels that even though colleges has ways around paying high cost that either way it goes it would be a bad investment, due to, a student dropping out, or not passing a class.
The level of education at both can be summed up with the idea that, “Howard is the Harvard for HBCUs.” Both have IVY League Schools, HBCU Ivy League schools consist of Howard University, Spelman College, Fisk University, Morehouse College, and Tuskegee University. PWI Ivy League schools consist of Yale Uuniversity, Harvard University, and Princeton University. At both HBCU and PWI, there Ivy league schools provide a more rigorous college experience, gifting students with an experience and opportunity to learn at a higher level. The experiences at each college areis the same for each race.
Millionaire investors do not typically invest in poor people causing many these hard working individuals to continue to live in poverty. This is just one way the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. Ivy League, private, and overall prestigious schools cost a fortune. Students at these schools receive a better education and typically find better, higher paying jobs. Students of middle and lower class have to settle for low paying jobs simply because they could not afford to go to a school with great prestige.
Everyone with different background determines a different field of study and mostly from the area of science or engineering. The essay “Two Years Are Better Than Four” by Liz Addison shows her response to the different perspective of Mr.Perlstein about the matter of colleges and her disagreement with Mr. Perlstein’s statement that “The college experience—a rite passage as it was meant it to be—must have come to an end”(212). In another similar essay called “Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges?” by Kevin Carey, the same opinion has made about the importance decision of colleges and explains the concept of for-profit system. Carey’s opinion about Clifford “He’s an interesting man—sincere, optimistic, a true believer in higher education and his role as a force for good” (217).
Even among the most elite schools, the connection to investment banking seems utterly elusive. Thus, the exclusivity of these opportunities appears at the least unfair.
Private education show how “prestige” and they assume to be through there prices, but really there are not that different from public Universities. Even though private universities may have higher graduation rates their post graduate job rates are basically the same as another individual from a private university. Clark refers to a research done in 2012 that compares private and public university graduates in 2008 post life and they find out that they are similar in salary and job rates. She states her opinion in the text saying “Bottom line, you can't assume that private institutions are always automatically better just because they are private or expensive. It is important to ask questions about both graduation rates and post-college outcomes.
Yale was founded in 1701 and since then has been acknowledged as one of America’s premier institutions for higher learning. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale can sometimes be seen as an exclusive club where it is near impossible to be accepted. As with many of the other Ivy League schools, Yale has often been accused of being homogenous and lacking diversity. The traditional image of the school is one of old wealth and white males in an old New England town. The recruiting video which was made by students and alumni tries to dispel the notions that Yale is a university that is not for
There is a distinct line between the two, and all you have to look at are the sports facilities on the campus. If a student athlete that only want d to go to college for athletics had the choice to go to North Carolina or Harvard, he would most likely choose North Carolina. What if the same situation was used, but this particular athlete could be paid by any college? If he was going to college to play sports and Harvard offered him more money than North Carolina, then the athlete would be more likely to choose Harvard. This just shows how corrupt college sports could get if the athletes were paid.
Furthermore, the brothers were always equally skilled, studious, and disciplined, yet they were treated unfairly from a young age. By chance, Harris was personally recommended to an Ivy League by an authority, while Everett was expected to pursue demanding labour, leading to continuous mistreatment. The Ivy League comprises eight of the most renowned private universities in the United States (Carlton). Although they are related by chance, the characters’ distinct levels of hierarchy exemplify how social status can greatly influence and threaten a family
Harvard University and UConn are vastly different schools. Harvard’s acceptance rate is significantly lower than UConn’s. If you apply to Harvard, you have a 5.4% chance of being accepted. However, if you send an application to UConn, you have a 53% chance of being accepted. Harvard is a much more selective school than UConn.
William Deresiewicz’s article The Disadvantages of an Elite Education discusses the pitfalls of the elite education in order to highlight the inadequeces of the Ivy League perspective on the world. Through this writing, Deresiewicz acknowledges that the elite education many have been given is not the key to adequately interpreting the various perspectives of the working world and its people. While allowing for success at the top of the business world, the perspective of the elite does not translate directly to the viewpoint of a working class American. By working dilligently for every dollar they wish to earn, the working class American angle on the world differs greatly from the elitist who earns extravagently from the management of a business.
These schools are also diversed in terms of location. What is also intriguing is the tuition of the top 10-20 universities fluctuates. For example, the Brown University which was ranked number 16, has one of the highest tuition rate of 47,434 while the top 1 university, Princeton University has a tuition rate
Each offer a place where students can feel out of harms way, but colleges enforce their safety more than high schools. The second major difference between colleges and highschools is their standards.
