Mary C. Thomas ENG1010 March 5, 2013 RHETORICAL ANALYSIS “Paying for College” [1]Zoe Mendelson starts college on a full scholarship. His parents have little income. He lives with his Mom; she is a full-time student. Zoe feels fortunate that his parents are middle class. Without a scholarship, he would not be able to go to Barnard school.
But this is unfair to the students whose parents make too much annually to qualify for government assistance. If the tuition rates were to stop increasing more students would be able to afford and attend college without the extra needed support from the government. Getting into college shouldn’t be based on how much money you have but on how well you preformed in high school and deserve to be there. It’s not fair or right for someone to have all the money in the world to get into Harvard who isn’t all that intelligent when someone who does get into Harvard but can’t afford to go due to the $55,000 year tuition cost. If all the colleges were on a more even level playing field for cost your acceptance into college would be based solely on your previous academic achievement not who you are or how much money you have.
DO NOT overspend. While you’re in college most likely you are going to using your own things like your own credit, debit and everything else. While it’s tempting you can’t let it get to you (the overspending). Remember your using your credit and what better way to build it than in college. Building your credit starts in college if you begin to buy all these things you can’t afford and turn around and not have the ability to pay them off at the end of the month then you’re your credit will begin to decline and that’s not good.
Our country prides itself on encouraging its citizens to better themselves through education. (P) While its priority has been high school graduation, many jobs now require college degrees, making higher education more important than ever. While I understand that every American should be expected to sacrifice during this hard time, just as we were in World War II, I feel that this particular sacrifice would put our country in an even worse state. (S) Our work force will not be prepared to handle nor understand the advancements that we have strived so hard to achieve. College is made to prepare students with the newest information possible, so that we can constantly be improving ourselves and be able continue to compete with the world’s leading nations.
Options like going without a book are not sufficient, because no amount of note taking can accurately replace in class learning with the book. Students also attempt to wait until financial aid is available; this generally puts students behind schedule, which is not how to start the semester. These students start out the year missing assignments. Some students have to depend on their parents to help them get books. This is not a solution either, due to the country already struggling in a financial depression.
Students are not missing class to go scope out the opposite sex and to spend all day with them not attending any of their classes. Most students at Baldwin Wallace are either paying for their own college through their savings or loans, or their parents are paying for their college. For a student to miss class to be with the opposite sex would either be financially hurting themselves or their parents are most likely going to stop paying for the college if they aren’t attending their classes. The retention rate should have no affect on whether a campus is intermingled or not, it should have an affect on financial reasoning’s and a students study
Adults returning to college will have the benefit of increased self-esteem, the ability to change professions, and future opportunities for advancement in their current careers. On the other hand, we have Linda Lee’s essay “The Case Against College” explaining that college is not for everyone. Students in high school that choose not to apply themselves should not attend college. These students may not be ready for the heavy course work, the expenses, or the dedication of time needed to earn their degree. Although both authors prove strong points it is obvious that whether your choice is college or trade school, as long as you apply yourself you will be guaranteed future success.
Then the student decides to drop to a part-time worker, register for less class hours to find more time to work on improving their grades. But what they soon fail to realize, is that now they will have to hold off on graduation a little longer. Also there are other students who just can’t afford the expenses of college, so they may end up dropping out before they even reach the second semester. These are all real examples of what many college students go through, across the
This article is based upon different type of fallacies Beres uses to tell his audience that the Common Application process is a waste of many, and doesn’t give the students what they deserve. He uses Appeal to Ignorance when he talks about how those who have a high SAT score and “mommy and daddy credit card isn’t maxed out”. So what if their parents are working hard for this kids? Appeal to Popular Opinion by saying “kids are taking spots at universities that they may, in fact, have little to no interest in.” How can afford to go to a university that will cost at least 30K to graduate just because they don’t like it? He mentions that’s X amount of Y students got accepted into a particular college, but doesn’t talk about how many percentage of Y actually meet the requirements of their “dream”
If you had answered yes to any of these then you are most likely in the category of the people struggling to pay for college education for your kids or yourself. Middle class income families are hit the hardest as they usually do not qualify for grants to help pay for tuition unless you were laid off work. People who got laid off get grants to cover school tuition, books