The women that come to MU mostly would take one out of the three pathways: primed to party, cultivated to success and motivated for mobility. Women who are primed to party are mostly affluent and out of state. They are directly drawn by “party school”. Women who cultivated to success are mostly affluent and from out of state. They come to MU for academic reason. Women who are motivated for mobility are from working class and low-middle college class family. They dream to escape their hometown and economic status The reasons that these women take these pathways are as follow. Women who are primed to party come to MU mainly because they want to socialize rather than academic reasons. This approach to college requires a high level of parental financial support. Because their parents can …show more content…
They don’t think themselves as talented. They do not have good GPA and they would choose impressive majors. However, they can find employment through their parents who can set them up in apartments in hip, happening neighborhoods in the desirable cities. Their parents mostly would support them until they get married. There are also “wannabe” who also have a low GPA and they choose easy majors. They cannot be successful as those out-of-state women because their parents could not help them land jobs after they graduate. For women who cultivated to success, despite parents’ involvement earlier, it does not guarantee success once these women leave school. The “achievers” who have strong relationships with highly involved parents are able to reproduce their parents’ privilege. In contrast, the “underachievers” who don’t have good relationships with parents are at risk of downward mobility. The “strivers” lack financial support and parental guidance so they did not find a pathway at MU. As a result of that, some left MU and transferred to regional schools. They got track for upward mobility in less prestigious
“In the United States and several other countries, women now actually surpass men in educational achievements” (Josh, “Harvard Summer School”). Some women are more educated and qualified for most
The authors research the “college and party life” that is associated with students through the perspectives of women. Due to paradoxical experiences in places of higher education, the study chooses to focus entirely
The teachers interviewed in this film discussed that once students begin looking into the hefty cost that comes with college they become quite discouraged because they are not aware of ways to get some of the cost eliminated such as qualifying for FAFSA, application wavers and multiple scholarships they could apply for. Not only is the financial aspect intimidating, but these students do not understand how much profit they could potentially make off of a student loan. Not only can these students make more money and benefit from a possible loan along with avoiding some financial struggles, they can also work to benefit their futures. For example, Soma, discusses that before his father passed away his father encouraged him to get a college degree, with that being said, if these students were to attain a college degree they could help their families In the future, live with a sense of accomplishment and break the cycle of low socioeconomic status, allowing them to thrive in their future. With the lack of knowledge first generation students possess, they are typically unable to see the benefits they would have if they attended a college and attained a
In the essay “Achievement of Desire”, author Richard Rodriguez, describes the story of our common experience such as growing up, leaving home, receiving an education, and joining the world. As a child, Rodriguez lived the life of an average teenager raised in the stereotypical student coming from a working class family. With the exception, Rodriguez was always top of his class, and he always spent time reading books or studying rather than spending time with his family or friends. This approach makes Rodriguez stand out as an exceptional student, but with time he becomes an outsider at home and in school. Rodriguez describes himself as a “scholarship boy” meaning that because of the scholarships and grants that he was receiving to attend school; there was much more of an expectation for him to acquire the best grades and the highest scores. Rodriguez suggests that the common college student struggles the way he did because when a student begins college, they forget “the life [they] enjoyed
In this case, talent can be and is represented by what you have been given and or your socioeconomic status, and if you don’t work hard, someone else who works hard should be given opportunities regardless of their “talent” or lack thereof. The Socs have been handed a lot and were born into the higher end of the socioeconomic spectrum and choose not to work hard. Darry, on the other hand, wasn’t handed a lot and was born on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, but he chose to work hard so he should have gotten a chance at a future. However, society judges promise on wealth and “talent”, neither of which Darry has. Darry works as a roofer, causing injury to himself, to ensure his own and his family’s survival. But as a Greaser, nothing he does matters, or even deserves to matter. He worked hard in school earning him a scholarship. Even more so, he balanced getting those good grades with being on the school football team. His hardwork and his balance between athletics and academia earned him a scholarship. But even with his scholarship, he couldn’t afford college. But, he didn’t give up. Then, in a fatal car crash, his parents die, removing any chance of him being able to go to college for at the very least the near future or more likely, the rest of his life. But that wasn't all. With his parents no longer around, he had to care for his
In my community, El Sereno, college is viewed as an option as opposed to it being the next step in life. Most people in my area either begin working or start a family after they graduate from high school. Not always by choice, but in some cases by circumstance. Students in my neighborhood either lack the knowledge, financial support, guidance or even legal status that would otherwise drive them to apply or even go to college. About eighty-percent of students graduated from my high school, but only about twenty-percent ended up attending a four-year university (NINCHE). One of the biggest reasons for student’s low college entrance rate has to deal with their family's socioeconomic
The mission of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated is to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards, promote unity and genuine friendships among college women, aid in issues concerning girls and women in order to come up with solutions to eliminate or ease the circumstances they may face, maintain an ongoing interest in college life, while also being of service to all mankind. This sorority has not only empowered women to help others, but it
...ation for the career of their choice. As Gatto so eloquently points out in his article, “We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of ‘success’ as synonymous with, or at least dependent on ‘schooling’…” (Gatto 150). If he is correct, and success is reliant on our schooling, only the few elite students even have a chance at becoming successful. And that is truly unfair because every student in our country’s education system deserves the chance to be able to become something great.
In the article “America’s Most Overrated Product: The Bachelor’s Degree” by Marty Nemko, the author argues several different views on why higher education may be very overestimated. For starters, the author shares his opinion more than anything else due to him being a career counselor. The purpose of this essay is to explain to the readers that most people start off with the idea of living the American Dream. Which is practically going to college to have a better life and career. But over the time the idea of working very hard for a Bachelor’s degree has become very dimmed. Furthermore, for some people, when they think of the American Dream they think of hope for bettering themselves and also helping their families. Unlike the author, Nemko feels that even the thought of trying to pursue to get a bachelor’s degree is overrated. The audience of this passage would most likely be teenagers going into college and parents. Nemko states that “Colleges are quick to argue that a college education is more
In his narrative “I Just Wanna Be Average”, Mike Rose writes, “Students float to the mark you set.” (1989, p.2) This is an injustice to students who are viewed as “slow”. How would education be different if instead of lowering learning standards, educators raised their expectations of what “slow” students are capable of? Not all students are guided towards success in education, it really reflects on the attitudes of primary literacy sponsors. All students deserve educators who are invested in their success. Inequality based on academic merit translates to vocational students feeling a loss in identity, while college prep students have literacy sponsors propelling them to high achievements. The “true job skills” are not trade work, but “to
Today, living the American Dream is not just a matter of working hard. A higher education is becoming a necessity to have if one wishes to rise above his or her station. Egan mentions that years prior, a degree was not necessary to having a comfortable life, but nowadays without a degree, it is nearly impossible to earn a wage that can support all the ideals of the American Dream (106). Because of this, a person born into a family with money has a much better chance of continuing to live a comfortable life, while a person who is born into poverty or the lower class might not have the means to receive an education and is therefore left out of the American
Students in all male colleges are found to have more significant developments and growths than students in coed colleges are. Edith Simms, once an associate dean of student at Wabash College and then a director of admissions at the University of Virginia, interviewed 32 students, 23 faculties and 8 administrators from Hampden-Sydney College and Sweet Briar College to make a qualitative research. Simms also gathers documents including "admissions figures, graduation rates, first-year retention rates, choice of majors, and data from the National Survey of Student Engagement." (Simms) She then concludes that, "students in those single sex colleges are found even grow and develop from kids mentally matured people more significantly than those in coed colleges do. Moreover, most of the students in those single sex schools want to continue their study in such environment and enjoy being in their schools" (Simms). Edith, based on the finding materials and the researches of the interview, argues that stude...
Despite this, there continue to be incidents where middle class people are devastated when unable to achieve the so-called American Dream. Of course, the social expectations of a society are generally set by the previous generation and cause the newer generation to feel guilt when they cannot meet them. In order to avoid this feeling of guilt and insufficiency, people are willing to give up their unique hopes and goals; thus creating a people that are cohesively identical. Students in today’s universities are amazingly bright and creative, yet change their majors to those society has placed honor on, such as medicine, law, and engineering. The amount of innovation and invention
Education has been the hurdle keeping women from gaining equality in society, by separating them from their male counterparts. Women who sought higher education were considered, heathens and the most disgusting beings that would perish. Without education to empower them, women were stripped of their dignity and rights by their husbands and other men of the community. The struggle for women higher education is a battle that still has not reached its citadel.
Women have had quite a few hurdles to get over since the 1950's. In 1958 the proportion of women attending college in comparison with men was 35 percent. (Friedan,