Reasons To Enter Minerva University

Many middle to lower class families cannot afford to send their kids to school and with Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton giving out generous financial packages to their student, who mostly come from wealthy background. The poorer students are on the losing end because they are not given the opportunity for aid. As Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council of Education, says, "Smart poor kids go to college at the same rate as stupid rich kids." What this is saying is that the wealthy families have vastly more opportunity to succeed in the college system even though they have equal or lesser smarts. Well respected schools such as NYU are now admitting students based on the financial fit not by merit.

Andrew Simmons published his article for The Atlantic, “The Danger of Telling Poor Kids that College is the Key to Social Mobility” on January 16, 2014, which raises his concerns that higher education is only being promoted as an opportunity to increase their economic status, when it should be an opportunity to experience an education (Simmons). Through the use of students such as Isabella, Simmons disagrees with the way students now look at higher education and blames the educators through the students’ lives for this view. Instead, Simmons views education as an intellectual opportunity rather than a way to elevate ones economic class which is all people see when they see “higher education.” He believes that education, ambition and work ethic is how you have a satisfying life, not with how much you make. He makes the point that when economics becomes the main goal of education it’s all children begin to think about and they might not pursue something that they are truly passionate about or what they want to learn about, which then does not create an intellectually awakening experience (Simmons).

The smartest and the most skilled are not always the wealthiest, which bring colleges to bring kids who crave their academics, have a skill in sports, and could contribute to the cause of their school.(Kim Clark, Octobet 29, 2011. College Costs Climb, Yet Again; http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/26/pf/college/college_tuition_cost/index.htm)

Imagine a brilliant high school child named Michael who has a high GPA and is enrolled in the honors and AP curriculum; he precipitates in multitudes of extracurricular activities including sports and clubs. He gets accepted to many schools and received many scholarships. However, even with financial aid, he and his family are economically deprived and therefore incapable in funding a college education. This scenario is not an imagination but a common event in modern day America. Fifty percent of eighteen to twenty-five year old adults who did not attend a higher education institution experienced a similar situation (Why). These people belong in a university, an establishment whose nature is to judge base on the intelligence not on the

The article of “ In the Basement of the Ivory Tower” really remind me to considered plenty of things that I have never been thinking about before. In my mind, pursuing and accomplishing a higher level of education is always good for people. However, the view that the Professor X raised is a very sharp phenomenon buy it does exists in our society. In the article he questioned whether it is necessary for everyone to get higher education or not. It seems that as far as Professor X concerned, some of those students who are just waste of time and money by taking college education. He exposed that many colleges nowadays are bend to financial profits rather than to provide a high quality education. What is more, some of the students are not that well prepared for their college study and many of them cannot pass his class.

In some situations adversity comes in financially. Having issues economically can affect the person in not just only affording everyday supplies, but also for their college education. People around the world are very bright whether to make it there thanks to talents like music, sports, communication, the books, or in some type of other special unique role in life that they have. But because of that it pushes for the person to strive for that certain goal and because of that they demonstrate way

From our readings in Outliers we’ve learned how difficult it is to succeed in life without hard work and savvy. Even geniuses have been known to underachieve if their intelligence fails to match a great work ethic. Other factors come into play as well that help those who have ascended in a field reach their potential” Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up.” (pg. 67 Gladwell) For those of us that lack the hidden advantages afforded to the wealthy, we look to education in order to bridge the gap between, what society deems as success and failure which presents its own interesting challenges. Being smart enough to excel in higher education

In Daniel Golden’s The Price of Admission: How America 's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left outside the Gates, he makes the argument of how Ivy League schools are being unfair to the academically advanced students who don’t fall into a special social category the universities are rejecting to make room for mediocre students with high status or pleasing characteristics. He explains how Ivy League schools are accepting the rich, the legacies, the famous, the athletically strong, the faculty children, or the minorities over excelling students with no special prestige.

The current cost of college is a deterrent for many potential world changers. The hundreds of thousands of dollars are “why so many bright young people don’t go to college, don’t finish or graduate deeply in debt” (sanders). The potential for this world to advance in greater areas are tainted by the extreme costs for higher education, forty percent of low income students do not even attend college even after they are accepted (Hechinger Report). Many who could have possibly fulfilled high ranking positions currently have their talents squandered in a lower establishments because their abilities were never built upon as it would, if that individual went to

I article “ educating for Privilege” the author states that more wealthier children, whose economic status higher, are receiving better opportunities for better education. He states that “tuition increases have dramatically”, “ Only about 10 percent of the cohort comes from the bottom 50 percent”, “no one even thinks of expanding our student bodies or reducing the costs of instruction”, “the academy itself has to remember that professional education is a public good, not merely a private one.” A lot of powerful evidences were provided. And this leads me to the question of why this is acceptable. Why poverty and social status are still the main obstacles on the way to a scientific career. The difficulties faced by students from low-income

Upon doing research on Charles Murray it was discovered that he went to Harvard, which may make one doubt the validity of his argument. Another faulty is that a man who went to such a prestigious school will have a different expectation than someone who went to the University of New Hampshire for example. Of course he doesn’t think college is for everyone because not everyone may be able to make it through a college as vigorous as Harvard. Anyone that attends Harvard has some amount of talent but “anything below an IQ of 110 is problematic…if you want to do well [in college], you should have an IQ of 115 or higher” (Kirszner, Mandell 677). By making this statement, one can doubt his arguments validity; he may be making too high of an expectation for the “qualifying” student academically college abled and underestimating the “unqualified” college student that should try two years of vocational school before attempting a four year college. Millar, who did not attend an Ivy League school like Murray, and did an exceptionally well job of convincing her readers by stating facts with opinions. If a woman who went to UCLA can do that, than Murray may be overestimating college and adding more insult than encouragement. If a parent has a child with an IQ less than that of a “qualifying” one, then Murray may appear discriminatory towards an audience that is associated

In today 's world where the population, especially of the United States, is growing gloriously diverse, institutions of higher education must also reflect this aspect in their student body. The purpose of colleges and universities is to provide students with the education and experience they need to succeed after graduating as well as expand their thoughts and perspectives. Thus, they must create and maintain a similar environment in which students will live and work in the future. Although diversity has been emphasized as a priority for many schools, socioeconomic diversity is often disregarded. However, socioeconomic diversity plays an important role in developing the perspectives and minds of students. Thus, it is essential for the admission offices, especially of prestigious universities like the University of Pennsylvania, to recruit and admit more economically disadvantaged students as well as for the schools to meet the needs of and maintain those students.

Secondly, for people to be successful in a higher education, cultural expecations play a role. People from a high income family receive a higher education because they have the means to afford it, unlike people from the lower middle class to the poor, have little means to afford a higher education. All cultures have pre-determined ways to think about and interact with different kinds of outsiders. Everyone has a place. In a global city, for example, some outsiders are the scapegoats. These are usually a lower-status immigrant group that takes the blame for all of society’s ills. These cultural norms are built around social stereotypes, and when an outsider doesn’t behave as expected, he doesn’t fit the suit. This can be seen as good or bad,

The ability and drive to succeed no matter what stands in your path, whether the problem is economical, social, or cultural, overcoming obstacles is a part of life that everyone does and each hurdle is a step closer to the end goal; the prize of being educated. Simply put, knowledge is power, where the highly educated oversee the less educated, and the non-educated have little to no chance of being wealthy or respected (Spayde 66). According to Spayde, those unfortunate enough to not have the opportunity for a higher education are viewed as being limited to an “in-the-streets education” (69). An “in-the-streets education” is the education you receive from living life that typically wouldn’t

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