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Stephanie Owen's Should Everyone Go To College

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Have you ever thought about if you should go to college or not? Or if you were a fit for the college lifestyle. The excerpt Should Everyone Go to College answers those questions for you. The excerpt is a very interesting piece it informs the reader with a lot of data, and specific topics throughout the reading. They go into detail about how certain college graduates earn more than others, and also earnings between College and High school graduates. Should Everyone Go to College makes a strong argument through reliable authors, accurate data, and it is organized well.
The authors in Should Everyone Go to College are reliable. Them being reliable makes the argument that much more effective. Not only do they have validity, they also have a lot …show more content…

Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill both have very reliable backgrounds as both come from working in institutes and the center for children and families. This isn’t the first time these two have come together and shared information about higher education issues. Stephanie Owen came from has come out with a wide variety of books and excerpts. Owen happens to have a background in family and children as she works as a “senior research assistant at Brookings’ Center on family and children.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). This gives Owen a background in family and children allowing her to find stats on how things operate in a family. Owen also, “serves as a research associate at the Urban Institute.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). Owen is a research associate this gives her reliability, and it also allows her to gather certain information to back up what she says. Isabel Sawhill serves as a “Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at …show more content…

The authors use the data very effectively as they use charts and graphs to help back up the information they have presented in the text. Accurate data not only back up their points, it is used to persuade the student to maybe choose a different route for schooling. The authors break down the number of earnings for bachelor degrees, and high school diplomas from the age of 22 to 64. The data is effectively presented through a chart comparing the data showing that the people who graduate with a bachelor’s degree end up with “$12,000 dollars more than high school graduates.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). Making money has been what drives students to go to college rather than education, and the authors made a very strong point. They present a graph about how the return of investment intertwines with the type of schooling the student gets. The result was that the most competitive schools have the best return of investment at “11% for public school, and 13% for private schooling.” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). This is important data as they allow students to see if what college they should go to. As they get into work-life earnings for specific majors they use a graph presenting the data of how each major fair when they graduate with a bachelor’s degree “The highest paid major is engineering, followed by computers and math” (Sawhill & Owen, 2015). Engineering is at the top of the list when it comes to salary and education ends up being the

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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.

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If we apply this 10 percent rate to the median earnings of about $30,000 for a 25- to 34-year-old high school graduate working full time in 2010, this implies that a year of college increases earnings by $3,000, and four years increases them by $12,000. Notice that this amount is less than the raw differences in earnings between high school graduates and bachelor’s degree holders of $15,000 (Owen, 2013, p. 1). Anthony Carnevale and his colleagues at the Georgetown Center found that 14 percent of people with a high school diploma make at least as much as those with a bachelor’s degree, and 17 percent of people with a bachelor’s degree make more than those with a professional degree (Owen, 2013, p. 4). The expected earnings (median full- time earnings times the probability of being employed) of a young college graduate with a theater degree are about $6,000 more than the expected earnings of a young high school graduate. For a young person with a mechanical engineering degree, the expected earnings of the college graduate is a staggering $35,000 more than that of a typical high school graduate (Owen, 2013, p.

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The authors’ emphasis on “on average” is very effective at showing how their point makes sense and why it should be taken into consideration. I found the way that the authors focused on the minority more than the majority was skillfully effective at showing how some career paths do not require a college education and that the return in investment would not be worth the cost. Throughout their argument I found the writers to mostly use Logos and Ethos in their writing. The Logos is evident by the way they use statistics and the Ethos by how they state telling someone the only way to be successful is to go to college is a disservice. This is effective at making the reader think about how this should affect the decision of going to college and whether they should push someone to go to

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The authors gathered research from the Hamilton Project and also created graphs to provide the reader with the facts and statistics they need to make their own decision whether they should go to college or not. When the provided data is considered, it’s hard to see why someone wouldn’t choose to attend college and earn a degree. The authors were successful in achieving the goal of getting their point across by simply stating hard undisputed facts on earnings which is why this is a good example of logos in the authors’

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In my opinion, the author is stating that all the statistics should be laid out for the student and left up to them to decide if they are interested in pursuing college. In sum, then, the issue is whether college is worth the time or money. Though I concede that college is pricey and can consume a lot of your time, my view is that college is the best option after high school. Writers of article “Should Everyone go to college” suggest three main reasons as to why high school students should think twice before attending college.

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