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Why we have colleges (Pages 3 and 4 (Arum and Roksa wrote a book called…

- - - - First generation students
      - No social distractions
      - Worked
      - Complicated family responsibility
    - - He knew they weren't prepared
      - Students asked about the text books they had to buy
      - Society needs a mechanism for sorting out the intelligent member for is less intelligent ones.
        
        Funnel intelligent people into careers that maximize their talents
        
        Four year intelligent test, graduate with a score that professional schools and employers can trust
        
        Encourages members to peruse careers that are professionally and financially rewarding
        
        Brings people into mainstream norms no matter their background
        
        We want everyone to go to college. Colleges get everyone on the same page
        
        All that matters is the grades
        
        Two theories: Meritocratic and Democratic
      - Only thing that matters is that everyone learns
      - College is the best delivery system
    - - Harvard 405 boys applied and 402 were excepted
      - Yale recieved 13,030 applications and 959 were accepted
      - In 1948 the S.A.T and the A.C.T was standardized
        
        It was a method for picking out the most intelligent students
        
        Bryant Conant believed that only the most intelligent people should go to college
        
        Acceptance into Harvard had declined since than
      - Private colleges become more selective, public colleges have become more accommodating
- - - - Half of colleges students don't finish and some need development courses.
      - He blames the state of affairs on what he calls "postmodern mode of thought" and the fact that there are more women teachers
      - Professors X is old fashion and his grading is strict
      - A good writer is someone that reads enough throughout his life and refining the ability to mimic those rhythms
      - If you read sentences then you think in sentences and then you can write in sentences
      - He says that if students are ready for school then they should just get a vocational education
      - You don't waste time or resources on students that won't make it. We should determine if a person can make it through college when they are in middle school and the put on the right path