Elite Colleges :D

    After reading all seven debates online, I find that the most persuasive debate was by Martha o Connell titled as What You Do Vs Where You Go. She had stated many reasons and proofs that not going to elite schools doesn’t mean you can’t be famous one day or with success. 

  The “oohs” and “aahs” follow as the audience learns that Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates dropped out of college, that Oprah Winfrey is an alumna of Tennessee State and that Ken Burns graduated from Hampshire College.

    From the beginning, I didn’t even know that all these famous celebrities listed above that had earned more than millions or billions of dollars were actually either dropped outs or graduates from colleges that I had never heard of. After reading this quote of hers, I realized that elite colleges aren’t really important to me anymore because success doesn’t always depend on elite colleges however you do have to depend on yourselves. Martha o Connell’s debate was really persuasive because after reading this debate, I change my minds from picking only elite colleges into also picking some of the state colleges or universities when it is my turn to apply.

    Out of the seven debates, the least persuasive debate for me was the debate called Skip the Admissions Game by Kevin Carey. I found his debate really wrong and not persuasive at all however probably those really rich people would be interested to his debate.

They're nice places to hang out for four years and you'll probably learn a few things. Even if you don't, you'll still get a piece of paper signifying that you were smart enough to get in and rich enough to pay for it. People care about stuff like that.

    I don’t understand why would he even say that college is to hang out because college is something that can help your future career. Also he stated that if they go to elite college then they probably will learn a few things however if those people learn a few thing, won’t people identify them as dummies after they graduated? I personally believe that people doesn’t always care about your “smart piece of paper” because lots of companies always test your knowledge before letting anybody working there. For example, what if you graduated from an elite college to become a doctor and you didn’t even learn anything from that college but you have the money to buy the “smart piece of paper”. Do you think hospitals are going to let you work there? Even if they did, you would probably be sued by many patients.