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Originally posted by MAKSIM
So you are telling me that UVA, the university that costs money, has a lot of people trying to get into it and is very competitive. I wonder how competitive it would get if it all of a sudden became free. What do you think? Do you think given the public education system in America that the poor and middle class would really be the ones benefiting most from a free public college system? I have a feeling many of those poor people and minorities would end up at that local public college that people never heard of, has low graduation rates, and low employment rates that require relevant degrees.
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competitiveness of a university is based on the quality of its academics, how well-known its name is, and its connections with businesses. it has literally nothing to do with how expensive it is. in fact, ivy league schools actually have very good financial aid, and those are definitely competitive.
and this is what pissed me off about what you said. it doesn't matter if you go to a "college that people have never heard of", because a) most jobs care more about if you have a degree and what you did while you were there, not what school you went to, unless you're trying for extremely high level jobs and b) schools that aren't known for being competitive can still supply a great education. you're brushing off universities that aren't prominent as being useless and it makes me angry because they aren't. it's disrespectful to the work that educators are putting in to just act like what they do doesn't even matter because they aren't in harvard or something.
there are universities with great graduation rates that aren't known for being competitive. my school isn't that well known and its graduation rate is 17% higher than the average american college. it's absolutely unfair to treat universities that aren't in the top 50 or whatever as not being good enough like this, and it shows that you don't know what you're talking about at all.
. But I need to get to bed. I'll be here tomorrow but as for the rest of y'all who only pop in during the important nights, see you on 11 days. Onto Nevada
Savage 
