Literature Review 1

Article- How colleges scam the working class 

Link to Article- http://nypost.com/2013/04/29/how-colleges-scam-the-working-class/

Summary- This article really helps you see that colleges these days don't really care about the quality of education they provide or if they accept the best kids, to them its all about making money now. An example that the article used was how colleges now more than ever are admitting students who are not ready for college work. Colleges are not paying as much attention to sat's or gpa's as they use to and this is becoming a major problem. Kids who are not ready will enter into a college environment and not know what to do. They will end up falling behind and this may lead to them having to stay another year or two to complete their requirements and that means more loans to take out. The article also talks about how students are not receiving the guidance they need to succeed and they need help coming up with a plan to graduate but that help just isn't there. The goal for these schools has become to draw in as much money as possible out of students. 

Quotes- "The problem’s hardly limited to top schools. Part of it is that colleges are regularly admitting students who aren’t ready for college-level work. In 2012, for instance,of the 250,000 who took the ACT (the main alternative to the SAT), only 52 percent scored as college-ready in reading, only a quarter as ready in reading, English, math and science. Yet many started school anyway".

"But “intensive advising” is vanishingly rare in college today. Indeed, the whole college experience is designed around the idea that students already know what’s best for them. Schools just hand freshmen catalogs with hundreds of pages worth of seemingly unrelated courses, and the freedom to choose among them".

"For all the lip service our colleges pay to giving the less-advantaged a leg up, the mission these schools seem more focused on is just raking the money in".