The article blog#5

In the article, it talked about the differences between the lower class and the higher class when it comes to college. Class is the main factor in and before college. In college class is the difference between someone having to worry about food, money, or a social life. Upper-class student do not have to worry about their tuition is going to get paid therefore and giving them more of a chance to do better in school and be able to make more connections with people socially. In the article it stated how trajectories are basically the outcome of a person in a certain class after they leave college. Based on what their social class was when they entered College will affect their social class after they leave college. This meaning people of lower class families were able to send their children to college, in most cases the child from lower class families will have to take out student loans already putting that child at a disadvantage from people who are in higher class families.

     " student loans have existed in one form or another for the century... Not anymore. The states have pulled back, Grants have shriveled in value, and loans have become the way most student's handle most of the cost of college"( Garcia, Lardner, And Zeldin 174). This is basically saying that the student loan system has changed for the worst. While lower class students have to pay for it, upper-class students only have to focus on just going to school. Class background is another factor for people in college. For students from upper-class families you can see that they are the ones that usually don't try as hard in college because they know that they have their wealth or a job to fall back on after college. For wealthy families colleges for the experience and after is when they start to work. But for people from lower class families work starts when they enter college because their education most likely is the only way they can earn a living. College use to be thought of as a way to game the necessary tools to move up in society/ social class. But College is just a reflection of what are society is today.