Response - College

In the 7- way debate of "Does it matter where you go to college?," I think that What you do vs. Where you go has the best persuasive point because I think that It matters more of what you do in the college than where you attend. I think that one of Martha's best points is her second to last sentence because it basically summarizes her point and talks about the mos important component which is ambition and desire.

In a summary of the findings, the bureau says that "evidently, students' motivation, ambition and desire to learn have a much stronger effect on their subsequent success than average academic ability of their classmates.”

I think that Martha has a point when she says this because if a student goes to a college like SF state and has the motivation and desire to learn and get a good job for themselves, they can easily do it because they have the something to push them even if they struggle. If a student only cares that they got into a college like Yale and has no motivation to keep going, then they can easily drop out and go work in a cubicle while the student who went to SF state works easily in their dream job.

The one that I think has the least persuasive point is Kevin Carey's Skip The Admission Game because he either sounds like he's joking or he's trying to piss people off. In the second paragraph he clearly suggests that college is a place to hang out and not doing anything but learn a little.

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.

In here Kevin says that it only matters where you go to college because that's the only thing people look for and I think that this idea is wrong. If college was really just like that, then what you get on the SAT wouldn't really matter and there wouldn't be job interviewers to see how smart you were. The rest of his point is just so infuriating to talk about and I think that he just wants people to read his paper and get a laugh out of it while they read it, so that's what i'll do.. laugh lol.