Murry, a man with high authority because of being W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, coauthor of “The Bell Curve” (1994) and author of “Coming Apart” analyzes the idea that too many people are going to college in his article “Are too many people going to college?” His title and job status provides an authority and ethos to his appeal. The question is, how could too many people go to college? In the eyes of the world, it is a necessity. Thus creating a strong sense of pathos in the audience which is all of the students and those who are planning to attend college all around the world. Not only does the idea of too many people in college come as a shock to the billions of high school seniors who are starting to apply for
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He states “However unintentionally, we have made something that is still inaccessible to a majority of the population- the B.A- into a symbol of first- class citizenship. I know this from experience because of the numerous times that you get told in school that one day you will be going to college so that you can get a degree and be a model citizen for all of those younger than you. Or in high school, when they say to take AP courses so that you can get ahead in college but you have to take the AP test, that you have to pay for that determines if you get to skip a college course or not. The pressure is everywhere to go to college. We see commercials about college and how it helps you get a job- which previously in this essay we talked how it isn’t always ensure-, we also see on social media that there are statistics that show what school is the best for parties, internships and just academic wise. There’s no way of escaping not going to college because if you don’t go, you are seen as a failure, to society and probably to your family as well. Our nation has this expectation that everyone no matter what their circumstances may be, whether they be financially, physically, or mentally unstable, they must go to college or else they will end up as a hobo
He states “However unintentionally, we have made something that is still inaccessible to a majority of the population- the B.A- into a symbol of first- class citizenship. I know this from experience because of the numerous times that you get told in school that one day you will be going to college so that you can get a degree and be a model citizen for all of those younger than you. Or in high school, when they say to take AP courses so that you can get ahead in college but you have to take the AP test, that you have to pay for that determines if you get to skip a college course or not. The pressure is everywhere to go to college. We see commercials about college and how it helps you get a job- which previously in this essay we talked how it isn’t always ensure-, we also see on social media that there are statistics that show what school is the best for parties, internships and just academic wise. There’s no way of escaping not going to college because if you don’t go, you are seen as a failure, to society and probably to your family as well. Our nation has this expectation that everyone no matter what their circumstances may be, whether they be financially, physically, or mentally unstable, they must go to college or else they will end up as a hobo