So a first generation college student should forego admission to an Ivy League?!
That’s a decision for the college student and their parents to make. Is Ivy League something we should all be aspiring to? I don’t think so. I think it’s mostly a waste of money, aside from the contacts you make. And those contacts only help for specific niches like politics.
From an educational perspective, 2 years at a community college and 2 years at a state school will get you everything the Ivy League does at about 1/50th the price. But hey, if you really want to go to an Ivy League school, then be prepared to pay 50 times more money and get your COVID-19 shot.
It’s a business selling a service and all of them have pros and cons. Make your choice; vote with your dollars. Let the free market decide who’s right and who’s wrong. If nobody shows up to Harvard in the fall because of a COVID-19 vaccine requirement, Harvard will drop the requirement. If kids start dropping dead at the University of Maine because of COVID-19 and people withdraw in mass numbers, chance are they’ll be adding a requirement. Let the market decide the winners. Participate in the market.
It’s not even first generation students or new students. What about the Juniors and Seniors who need to go back to finish their degrees?
1. Many of the colleges mandating the vaccines are public government institutions. There is no difference between their mandates and the government mandating it.
2. Switching colleges isn’t as easy as saying, “Oh, I’ll go somewhere else now.” Transferring is a process, not all classes automatically transfer, and some programs of study might be different, not to mention housing that one already has obtained in the area. For Seniors, transferring is basically a no go, as many institutions require that a certain number of credits be earned at the school for the school to grant the degree.
3. The colleges are essentially changing a contract that the students relied upon after the fact. The students were not required to have this vaccine prior to acceptance and attendance, now the colleges want to change the requirements on them. That’s not free market despite the lying shills who want to pretend that it is.