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Four year college tends to be a great equalizer for other social injustices, however. While Northwestern may be a complete waste of time for the demographic you
by kolbe 9y ago
Four year college tends to be a great equalizer for other social injustices, however. While Northwestern may be a complete waste of time for the demographic you're advocating for (the well-educated and likely affluent), it does act as a way to retard the development of those people and allow the children from under served communities to catch up. For as much as your plan would allow the top 0.1% female to close the gap with the 0.1% male, it would also severely deepen the divide between wealthy/poor and probably further suppress African American achievement. You'd have to fix our problems with equal educational opportunity in much earlier stages of development to take the burden off of colleges.
- harryh 9y agoGiven the enormous expense in both time and money it's pretty hard to see college as an equalizer for those who start off with fewer resources in life.
- kolbe 9y agoExcept it doesn't cost a lot of money for people who don't have a lot of money. https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculator https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...
- harryh 9y agoMaybe that's true for Harvard, where they have the largest endowment in the world, but it's not true for the vast majority of colleges.
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