Student Voices: Success to a Degree

By Christian Imhof
Contributing Writer for Fox Tales

Many of us want to go to a top-ranked college. But why?

There is an unwritten rule that to be successful in life you have to go to such a college. The most pretentious and intimidating of these colleges are those in the Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Penn, to name a few.

These colleges are often portrayed as a one-way ticket to happiness; not getting into one leaves you in a mediocre college and a mediocre life. Should we put such a large emphasis on these colleges? The people who go there are, after all, human like the rest of us. Just because they fly the Harvard Crimson doesn’t make them better people.

Ivy League college graduates pride themselves on being of a “higher stature” then those with a high school diploma, or even a degree from another college. However, if you stripped a collegian and a high school graduate of all of their titles, they are the same person, albeit with differently developed talents.

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