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You might have "the option" to go to college as in you can theoretically apply, and perhaps the college may even favourably look on your admission. However when

by cmdkeen 10y ago

You might have "the option" to go to college as in you can theoretically apply, and perhaps the college may even favourably look on your admission. However when your school doesn't know that, doesn't have a history of sending people to college (or especially the Ivy League type ones) and perhaps even advises students not to bother applying as 'it isn't for you' students don't really have the option. The "Teach First" scheme in the UK, similar to Teach for America, is powerful because it is potentially the first time school students in many poorer areas will come across someone who has been to a top flight university. Someone who can tell them "you can successfully apply, you will fit in and you will enjoy it". Education results in the UK aren't correlated with the amount spent on education, they're correlated with parental wealth.

mrweasel 10y ago
>However when your school doesn't know that, doesn't have a history of sending people to college I see your point, but remember that Denmark is an extremely small country. There are literally no high schools that don't have a history of sending people to college. Of cause there are relatively poor part of town in at least some cities, but mostly those cities aren't big enough that only student from one particular neighbourhood is present in a high school. The high schools will always have a mix rich and poor, highly educated parents and parents with little to no education. Areas of Copenhagen might be the only exception, but I don't honestly know. The schools can of cause advise a student not to apply to college, but in the end they can't stop the student from applying for college.
aedron 10y ago
No university in Denmark will qualify applicants based on which area or schools they come from. It wouldn't make sense, since, as a sibling comment mentioned, Denmark is small and close-knit, and the same schools usually have both 'rich' and 'poor' kids.

by cmdkeen 10y ago

mrweasel 10y ago

>However when your school doesn't know that, doesn't have a history of sending people to college I see your point, but remember that Denmark is an extremely small country. There are literally no high schools that don't have a history of sending people to college. Of cause there are relatively poor part of town in at least some cities, but mostly those cities aren't big enough that only student from one particular neighbourhood is present in a high school. The high schools will always have a mix rich and poor, highly educated parents and parents with little to no education. Areas of Copenhagen might be the only exception, but I don't honestly know. The schools can of cause advise a student not to apply to college, but in the end they can't stop the student from applying for college.

aedron 10y ago

No university in Denmark will qualify applicants based on which area or schools they come from. It wouldn't make sense, since, as a sibling comment mentioned, Denmark is small and close-knit, and the same schools usually have both 'rich' and 'poor' kids.