As I read Andrew Delbanco's story on the "Scandals of Higher Education" I became angry myself with our academic system in the United States. I feel that the wealthy are able to send their children to higher caliber colleges and universities because they have the money to get them to that point. For example: These parents can send their children to the best private schools with the best college guidance counselors and best SAT prep tutors. The system, in a sense, is rigid to serve the wealthy because these students are better equipped to attend Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, for example. Delbanco described his thoughts on these colleges recruitment status, "Our richest colleges could and should do a better job of recruiting needy students, which would require spending more money on the effort to find and support them." I agree with this statement completely. Some of these students may be attending private high schools on scholarship or an everyday public high school, but regardless, it needs to be recognized that these kids are capable of the Ivy's academic arena. The collegiate system is getting tougher to get into as the years go by and I was happy to see that this article recognized that and supported view points that go against the norm of society.
