Elite College?

     Between the readings that were given to us, the one that appealed and was the most persuasive to me was Skip the Admissions Game by Kevin Carey. In this debate, Carey talks about both sides of things. he talks about how there are the small percentage of kids who are the ones who get straight As and 2100 or above on their SATs and then there are the majority of kids who are not as smart as those. He talks about the pros and the cons of both sides, but mostly about the pros on how kids who are not as smart can still have a rate of success within their future.
     In his piece, Carey talks about how if you are able to attend an elite college, they have a good chance of becoming successful:

"If, for example, you want to get rich by inventing exotic financial instruments (with all the deleterious social effects they may carry), the Ivy League is a good place to start. " (par. 3)

He basically says that depending on what things you want to get to, an elite college may be an ideal college to get an education, but if you are not one of those people who can afford to go to an elite college or if you don't get accepted to one, going to, let's say, a community college is just as well.

" While there's little difference among elite colleges in the grand scheme of things - Princeton, Brown, tomato, tomahto - it's a real problem when students enroll in colleges that do a poor job of teaching them and helping them graduate, as many do."

Even further down the essay, Carey points out that college isn't about elite or not elite, well known or obscure, but it is about the education and the level of teaching that a student gets to allow them to graduate and be able to survive the world on their own. It doesn't matter if you go to an elite college and get straight As if later on, you cannot support yourself because you didn't learn anything in college that you can work with to support yourself
     Carey still fails to support his idea of how going to a good college doesn't matter if you can't come out of it and be able to support yourself, but the point is still clearly stated. It would have been stronger if he had cited an example as he did for the jobs in community colleges.