College Admissions Expert Wonders if Ivy League Schools Are Still Worth the Investment
“if they’re going to be exposed to this groupthink where there’s no room for civil discourse, that is unacceptable because they’re not equipped to go into the real world”
After what we have witnessed on the campuses of these schools over the last year, lots of people are asking this question.
FOX News reports:
College admissions expert sends shocking message about Ivy League prestige: ‘Is it worth the investment?’
What’s in a name like Harvard, Yale, Brown or Princeton? If you ask college admissions strategist Greg Kaplan, the answer might surprise you.
It’s an age-old question that resonates among a slew of ambitious soon-to-be college students and their aspirational parents caught in the fervor of the rankings race, pursuing the dream of “going Ivy” – or having some other elite university’s name stamped on their resume – with unrelenting zeal.
But Kaplan warns that such tunnel vision can obscure what truly matters in the search for success.
“We really have to ask ourselves, ‘what are our kids learning at these schools and is it worth the investment?’ Because if they’re going to be exposed to this groupthink where there’s no room for civil discourse, that is unacceptable because they’re not equipped to go into the real world. And what you see is our young people who are getting fired from tech companies because they’re using their jobs as a chance to do political protest, and then they’re complaining about it,” Kaplan said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.
“We really have to ask ourselves, ‘what are we getting in return for this? And are they going to be able to do what they want to do?’ It’s okay to spend less on college because guess what? That allows you to invest more in their futures, so I think when someone says, ‘I’m going to community college, I’m going to transfer,’ that’s fantastic. You’re increasing the return on investment.”
The California-based expert works with families to help students gain admission to colleges of their choice – looking beyond recognizable names to help students get accepted to schools that are great matches for them.
In the process, he encourages applicants to weigh long-term success over short-term prestige.
“I wholeheartedly reject the notion that where you go is who you’ll become,” he said.
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“if they’re going to be exposed to this groupthink where there’s no room for civil discourse, that is unacceptable because they’re not equipped to go into the real world”
But that can has already been kicked so far down the road from where it started.
If you’re going to let people graduate from high school who can’t balance a checkbook, make change for a purchase, feed themselves, write a coherent status report, exercise average hygiene, or raise a baby without damaging it, then they’re not equipped to go into either the real world or higher education.
its all about the welfare state
“Education” jobs” THE MILITARY
there are people who know they can just show up collect the $$$ and there is no real demand on their skillzzz set
very few jobs hires will be decided as to what color tie or ring you have on.
maybe law maybe …
maybe investment firms
but not many.
Government, brah.
Some of the German veterans of WWI who were packed onto boxcars to the deathcamps held on to their war medals, in the vain hope that it would qualify them for better treatment, wherever the boxcars ultimately brought them.
That’s what these idiots and their incredibly expensive ivy league diplomas remind me of.
Fools
Unless a student is going into a STEM program or pre-professional training, doesn’t seem like college/university is of much use to them anymore. Paying $75K/year to have some DEI denizen shrieking at your kid, telling them you are a horrible, racist parent exploiting the masses and causing environmental catastrophes, followed by a dreaded call that said child is now in jail for vandalism or some other offense(s) connected to some wild-assed protest…I can see it.