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Getting To Attend College Essay

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Most people think it is easy for minorities to succeed but they do not see the struggle but they do not see the struggle one has to go through since they believe it is easy since they are wealthy but they do not see the fact that we aren't. This is critical because they are going to keep treating majorities in a certain way that's not right. It is hard for Blacks and Latinos since they aren't exposed to what it takes to attend great college because the status they are given perceives them as not worthy. Some Students of color get mistreated and some get treated better than others some get great opportunities while others are declined the same opportunities that are given to the ones who get treated better and by that Black and Latino students …show more content…

In the article “Who Gets to Attend College?”(1) Tram Nguyen mentions “ those who had dropped out of or were thinking of dropping out told her much the same thing: they would get the same job with or without a high school diploma, so why bother graduating?”. Student wouldn't be thinking things like these if they were given the help, resources that they needed then maybe the students would have changed their state of mind of how they thought. It would've been differently if they were given the help to be successful then those students that thought they were going to fail would've tried more to get to the success those other students are getting in a Private school and the school system would change but it won't change since that's how the system was built it was made for student in the lower class to fail and the high class to succeed and instead of dropping out of high school they would have graduated and then those students would say we succeeded because of the help that was given to me by the

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