Patrick N. Allitt wrote an essay “Should Undergraduates Specialize?,” in Reading for Writer published 2013, the author feels that U.S. students should have the a choice for specializing. Patrick Allitt compares his college experience with that of his daughter who went to college 32 years ago. He talks about how he grew up with the British systems. Patrick Allitt explains that it was a specialized system that was paid for by the government, but you had to take a placement exam to enter college, only 90 people were in his class. He points out his daughter on the other hand had to pay for her college and to get in she had to make herself stand out from the millions of other applicants with extracurricular activities. He discusses her classes
