Annotated Bibliography
Bruni, Frank. "The Elite Squeeze." Time 185.11 (2015): 48-52. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Mar. 2016. Bruni is an American journalist for Time Magazine, in this article he focuses on the difficulties that college applicants experience to be accepted to elite institutions of higher learning, but during this time there is enormous opportunities to obtain high-quality education in America that are not currently “elite.” Bruni supports his reasoning by singling out Stanford University, due to them changing the number of applicants they will take, for the class of 2018 Stanford accepted 5.1% of them out of the 42,167 applications. While Bruni states that in previous years Stanford’s acceptance rate has been around 15 …show more content…
In this article Luzer states the generally acceptable viewpoint of legacy preferences as being the blight of academic institutions of the republic. Luzer follows this by claiming that there is no need to worry about legacy admissions and their impact on the admission process for Higher Education Institutions, due to the institutions to needing to have a reasonable amount of income per year to ensure that the universities can provide the best education to the public. Luzer states that America is the only country in the world where a parent’s prior university has a bearing on future kin’s acceptance. Luzer’s stance on Legacy preferences is that it doesn’t make America poorer, dumber, or even more unequal, it has no bearing on general dynamic of the America, but does impact the location of the education and that’s the extent of …show more content…
Thus allowing for Wilson to be a credible source for commentary on Higher Education and the admissions process. In this article, Wilson explains the growth trends related to For-Profit colleges in the past 30 years, in comparison to traditional institutions and four year universities. Wilson points out that majority of the market is earned by 13 large companies that have total control over the market. Wilson brings in the commentary from Mark S. Schneider, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research, who claims that for-profit universities are not on par as traditional in the aspects of education provided and the overall life experiences gained, and states “Traditional faculty members think of this as a little sideshow or as those matchbook places you see advertised on the bus.” Wilson claims that due to the For-Profit colleges high spending in advertising and high pressure recruitment techniques allow for them to flourish in profitability, in connection with the hopes of holding on to the students for as long as possible. Wilson continues this commentary with while only providing an education in a very specific job position, allows for higher job placement after college but finding a job outside of that specific field increasingly
Bruni, Frank. "The Elite Squeeze." Time 185.11 (2015): 48-52. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Mar. 2016. Bruni is an American journalist for Time Magazine, in this article he focuses on the difficulties that college applicants experience to be accepted to elite institutions of higher learning, but during this time there is enormous opportunities to obtain high-quality education in America that are not currently “elite.” Bruni supports his reasoning by singling out Stanford University, due to them changing the number of applicants they will take, for the class of 2018 Stanford accepted 5.1% of them out of the 42,167 applications. While Bruni states that in previous years Stanford’s acceptance rate has been around 15 …show more content…
In this article Luzer states the generally acceptable viewpoint of legacy preferences as being the blight of academic institutions of the republic. Luzer follows this by claiming that there is no need to worry about legacy admissions and their impact on the admission process for Higher Education Institutions, due to the institutions to needing to have a reasonable amount of income per year to ensure that the universities can provide the best education to the public. Luzer states that America is the only country in the world where a parent’s prior university has a bearing on future kin’s acceptance. Luzer’s stance on Legacy preferences is that it doesn’t make America poorer, dumber, or even more unequal, it has no bearing on general dynamic of the America, but does impact the location of the education and that’s the extent of …show more content…
Thus allowing for Wilson to be a credible source for commentary on Higher Education and the admissions process. In this article, Wilson explains the growth trends related to For-Profit colleges in the past 30 years, in comparison to traditional institutions and four year universities. Wilson points out that majority of the market is earned by 13 large companies that have total control over the market. Wilson brings in the commentary from Mark S. Schneider, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research, who claims that for-profit universities are not on par as traditional in the aspects of education provided and the overall life experiences gained, and states “Traditional faculty members think of this as a little sideshow or as those matchbook places you see advertised on the bus.” Wilson claims that due to the For-Profit colleges high spending in advertising and high pressure recruitment techniques allow for them to flourish in profitability, in connection with the hopes of holding on to the students for as long as possible. Wilson continues this commentary with while only providing an education in a very specific job position, allows for higher job placement after college but finding a job outside of that specific field increasingly