The thing about ‘College-gate’ is we all knew that this was happening at the highest levels for a very long time.
If you look at the demographics there was a disproportionate amount of students at Harvard, Yale, etc who were from affluent families with lower GPAs and test scores.
The victims and the overt discrimination in this saga are Asian and other qualified students that didn’t get into these schools for less qualified students. This was due to their lack of diversity, and now we have realized their lack of familial wealth.
Higher education used to mean something back in the 1960s. At the time the top 10% of high school classes were the ones generally going to college and graduating. Now the number has ballooned to over 50%. It is no longer the cream of the crop that is in college, rather the masses.
Unless you have an applied major(e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Physics) you are going to enter the work-force ill-prepared. There should be less of an emphasis on actual class-time and lecture and more applicable work that will build up skill-sets for students to be successful post-graduation.
At this current juncture, many are leaving college compromised. The average student leaving college is over $50,000 in debt, and the wages of new college graduates have not risen since our last recession. College is overpriced, and universities simply are not delivering on their promises of setting up their students for success. There are other viable options that will lead to the same outcome without the repercussions. As ‘College Gate’ has shown a higher education is becoming an opportunity afforded to the wealthy and privileged, not the smartest.
