Review Of Daniel Golden's 'Ivy Leagues'

When it comes to college acceptance if there is an above average student living in a urban area compared to an above average student in a suburban area the college is likely to accept the one from the suburban area because the school is better. This is unfair for the people living in the urban areas and are trying to make it out because of the stigma they have on them. The American Dream shouldn’t depend on where you live. As a matter of fact a lot of these peoples dream is to make it out of the urban area and make it bigger than that. The ones that live in an urban area must work a hundred times harder to achieve The American

Ben Jauquet Brooke Dyer English Comp 82813 November 7 2014 Annotated Bibliography: College Tuition Ayres, Ian. "Why California's Tuition Hike Might Be a Good Thing." Freakonomics RSS. Freakonomics, 23 Nov. 2009. Web. 07 Nov. 2014. According to this article the gap in college has become larger as of late because of students financial situations. Public

An Analysis on “Are Too Many People Going to College” Charles Murray’s essay proposes that American colleges are being flooded with individuals who are either unprepared for higher education or who are simply forced into attending college and can’t succeed because of the lack of certain innate abilities. Murray’s essay goes on to take issue with the idea that the pursuit of a traditional college education is somehow strategically creating a separation of the American class system. While Murray makes many salient points with regards to America’s obsession with college education as a standard into a class of the intellectual elite, the essay fails to take into consideration the various motivators that can lead to student success, despite

In, Leo Gerard's article, " Grading Colleges on Access to the American Dream", the author illustrates the tremendous problem of college affordability, which is a growing issue in America. While author primarily focuses on the current issue of college affordability, he also evokes memories of a time when attending college was less difficult. The author begins his argument by stating the importance of colleges and the American Dream. He outlines Obama's plan to grade colleges based on tuition, scholarships, and financial aid. He states that Obama's plan will help restore the chance for all people to attain the American Dream. The author then compares our generation to the past, as he describes the circumstances for teens growing up in the 1960s

A high school student with a below average academic record is likely to be a below average college student. As a result, students admitted through alternative recruiting programs often end up in remedial classes with mediocre academic performance. Affirmative action programs extend

People attend college or university for several reasons, including exploring hundreds of career opportunities, pursuing their passions, learning critical thinking skills, and achieving their maximum potential. According to Dr. Richard Vedder’s, “For Many, College Isn’t Worth It”, attending college or university is not worth the time, effort, or money – Dr. Richard Vedder wants to solely focus resources on private universities and institutions. Vedder describes how many graduates with Bachelor’s degrees do not even obtain jobs in their specific field and how they will never start a career in their area of academic study. In his article, Richard Vedder describes how there should be more stringent standards placed on college undergraduates; he believes that public universities are not necessary and only private, more elite universities should remain operational. I personally believe that obtaining a college degree from an accredited university is worth the risk and the money, not only for one’s self but for society as a whole. Instead of shutting down undergraduate universities, we should consider raising collegiate admission standards throughout the nation.

In the reading “At the Elite Colleges” by Peter Schmidt the nature of admissions in top colleges was discussed in relation to class and race status. Schmidt states that affirmative action is often serving white populations of upper middle class females rather than those in minority races and ethnicities. This was a great relevant point, especially when considering why affirmative action was proposed and enacted in the first place. Affirmative action was created to serve those who are part of groups who had been quashed in some way by oppression. This stands in stark contrast. Colleges often make excuses for these undeserved admissions because, they are looking for future donors or are aiding an athlete. However, this is still inexcusable. On

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.

This book would be very beneficial read for any students looking to apply to a highly selective school, and especially for parents of such applicants. However, by the end of the novel, the author makes it seem as if it makes barely any sense to go to an Ivy League school at all. The book greatly prepares both students and parents to take a rejection from an elite university, however it veers to close to suggesting that students are better off not even applying to those colleges. Ivy League and other highly selective colleges provide students with an immediate advantage as compared with students from other less selective schools— the Ivy brand name on their resume. Despite the fact that nine out of the ten CEO’s of top the Fortune 500 companies didn’t attend Ivy League schools, if two applicants with the exact same resumes, except for their alma mater, apply for a job at one of those companies, Harvard would be sure to stand out more than The University of Nebraska. Bruni does an amazing job expressing that an education from an average school will not ruin one’s chance at success, however an Ivy League diploma most certainly won’t hurt

Higher education has become a staple of American society. With over 20 million students attending over 4,500 degree granting institutions, the role that higher education has played on larger society is paramount (Thelin, 2017). However, despite the popularity of higher education institutions, the exact purpose of higher

It shows how ivy colleges prefer legacy admissions. Although it is not illegal, but recently “two legal theories” are offered under which “legacy preferences could be challenged at both public and private institutions under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause (Ladeswki-578).” The civil act of 1866 prevents the states from giving titles of nobility. Minorities since most of elite university’s alumni belong to upper class families. Americans are concerned about such type of practices as “it creates doubt about institution’s commitment to meritocracy and equal opportunity (Mullen-47).” On the contrary, three out of four Americans oppose ancestry based discrimination so they can create equal opportunities for lower class families to get into elite colleges.

As Peter Schmidt of the chronicle says, legacies originated after World War I to support the immigrant students, particularly Jews. When it became harder to control Jewish enrollment, in 1920’s most respected universities such as Harvard, Yale and

The controversy surrounding college education and admission, both for undergraduate and graduate schools, is a debate that all students will face during their education. As a student who strives to complete both an undergraduate and graduate tuition, issues such as a bias towards high-income students, malicious health effects, and burdensome

Should Every Student Go to College? Now a days there’s a lot of pressure for high school graduates to further their education by attending college. Hard evidence states that more high school graduates attend college immediately after graduation compared to any other generation. However, college may seem more of a challenge

Students everywhere line up to participate in the biggest race ever known, the race for College Admissions that is. It begins with students filling out admission forms, listing qualities that put them above others, and end with, hopefully, an acceptance letter. However, for many students that is not the case. Why might you ask? The answer is simple. Certain college have admission quotas, or a certain number of students that could be admitted. Now the real question is ‘Should Colleges have Admission Quotas?’