Sociology

Sociology Assignment 4

1. Federal grants and loans benefit both students and for-profit schools because these students are paying extensive amounts of money to be able to go to these schools and further their education, so when the federal government is granting money to these college students, then this is helping to reduce the amount they are paying in total. For-profit schools are also benefitted from federal grants because this just brings in more money for them to help with their campus and for their marketing, which is 20-25% of their income. Many graduates find it difficult to repay student loans because they just keep amounting, because everybody at their school is telling them to take more and more classes so there bill amounts up for every credit. I definitely believe that these for-profit schools that arrange for these loans are partly responsible because they are trying to get as much money as possible instead of letting some of the wealthy students pay as well as some private organizations. They are more worried on the amount of students they enroll, instead of the quality of students that are enrolling.

2. I think that these for-profit colleges’ are being criticized correctly because they do use high-pressure recruitment and enrollment practices that should not be used. As shown in this video, they are telling their own people to dial, dial, dial and never give up on these hopefully future students. Also they tell them to get to the core of their emotional state so that they are acting on emotions and just enroll because they think that that is the only possible solution. The for-profit institutions answer these questions by saying that they are doing a deed, by enrolling so many students to get a college education, like they aren’t tricking or falsely representing their own university. They conned this one lady by saying that there was two spots open for her doctorate in psychology, but her student loan after that exceeded $200,000....