Privatization

Because this topic deals with a minority who already is at a disadvantage, it seems that everything is privatized. After reading many different articles and personal stories of students, I realized that many of them are misinformed and feel that money cannot be found in different places. For example, someone who is an immigrant and is applying to school may feel that to receive financial aid, you have to be a certain status. Automatically they are mentally discouraged to keep the process going. It hard once these aspiring students get in once they see how much disadvantage they have. Just like the comparisons made in Alexander and Hamilton's "Paying for the Party", students from these kind of backgrounds feel that they are out of place. They go on to say, "Eighteen isolates were from less privileged families, including all working class woman and lower-middle-class women on the floor and a few middle-class women" (Alexander and Hamilton 96). It is not necessary to emphasize that immigrant families tend to be of this class. It is hard to feel a part of something bigger when you already feel that the odds are stacked against you. With the privatization of higher education, it becomes harder for immigrant students to thrive in our education system.