hiddeneagle76 said:So, you went ahead and bolded my sentences—and all that other stuff too—and then claimed you were going to "give me an answer"... yet, honestly, the only thing you actually answered properly was where you're from...
You didn't actually address a single one of my questions—not even one!—instead, you just kept charging ahead with your own agenda... talking in circles about things I already know inside and out. Honestly...
You keep posting these pessimistic takes—which, let’s face it, are always the easiest ones to write—just so other users can chime in with a "yeah" or a "bravo" or "you're right" to validate their own hidden agendas... motives I honestly can't wrap my head around, though I've seen this pattern more times than I care to admit. And you frame everything using facts we’re already intimately familiar with—honestly, we know this stuff much better than you do! Like when you wrote that "America is turning into a nation of cheap labor because privatization essentially gutted and sold off all our manufacturing capacity"... Well, bravo! Just brilliant... absolutely riveting...
Just wanted to follow up regarding the college situation.
Even last year, we started seeing this massive surge in enrollment quotas at state universities because—thank God—more and more prospective students are finally waking up to how useless those private degrees from mommy and daddy's money can be.
It’s becoming common knowledge that landing a decent job is way harder with a private degree compared to a state one. Honestly, I don't think a single major Fortune 500 company in the States would even look twice at someone with a degree from a private college.
Take, for instance, the Wharton School—which is exactly where I’m aiming to enroll next year—they actually bumped their general track quota from 500 up to 540, yet the required entrance score dropped from 75 down to 55 simply because the exam was significantly tougher than last year's. It was all designed to ensure much stricter selection of the incoming students.
Personally, I’m not hoping for an easier exam (though, let's be real, it wouldn't hurt 🙂), but rather that people study harder so the overall results improve. Physics and math have been going pretty well for me lately, so I'm not too worried about my own chances... 😁
The fact that quotas are ballooning while required scores are dropping only proves that state universities have lost a lot of their quality. Unlike 10 or 15 years ago, a much larger number of mediocre high schoolers can now squeeze their way in.
It isn't really about how hard the entrance exams are; it's about the desire to enroll as many students as possible just so the universities can turn a profit.
Fifteen years ago, we didn't have this explosion of private colleges, so anyone who wanted to study had to go to a state school. Plus, those generations were just much larger than the ones we see today.
Now, with smaller generations coming through, we see ridiculous competition at state schools where they barely fill the seats or end up with plenty of empty spots, all while enrollment at private colleges continues to climb.
To give you an idea, back in the day, a place like the Law School at NYU might take 600 students, with only 80 getting state-funded spots, and 2,500 people would be competing for them. The graduation rate was around 15%; today, it’s nearly 40%.
It seems you haven't really stepped into the professional world yet, so you're just speaking in broad strokes. People with private degrees mostly need that piece of paper as a formality, because in America, most jobs are landed through connections, whether in the public or private sector. The exceptions are companies looking for specialists with specific skills and expertise—and that definitely doesn't apply to beginners.
I can tell you for a fact that especially in the public sector, there are more and more people working with degrees from private colleges; often, these employees go back to finish a degree later just to hold onto or move up in their positions. Of course, they breeze through those programs without breaking a sweat.
As for my answers, I gave them. If you don't like them, that's your problem.
You have to realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This whole attempt to dismiss my writing style and these sarcastic jabs just tells me you lack actual arguments, so you have to resort to cheap phrases and nonsense about my "hidden motives." You act like I don't know how much you know, but objectively, you haven't backed up a single thing you've said here to justify all this boasting.
I'm not here to sugarcoat anything or paint a pretty picture; I'm just laying out my perspective as realistically as possible.