In chunk #3 the final chunk of the nonfictional book "Branded" author Alissa Quart implements how students brand colleges by trying to get into the best colleges and making it seem as a high achievement to other students making it high expectations. They are willing to pay lots of money for tutors just to get good grades just to get in the most prestiges colleges like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton. She uses statistics and personal statements to further her claim. She states that the students are less deserving to attend these types of colleges but because they have desperation and desire, and money they can pratically get what ever it is that they seek and want. Students are now doing anything do get into colleges known for their name. They are beginning to hire SAT tutors that cost a fortune and are really stressing themselves out to do their best. There is nothing wrong with striving to do your best to get into the best colleges, but pressure from parents needs to cease. Students already have enough pressure, they don't need any unrelevant stress added. I have just learned of a new influence, teen novels. Teens are really influenced by these novels and have done drastic things like running away from their homes. There is also an upsode to this influence, most of the authors are teenagers. She mentions how colleges are getting branded by students and also how teen literature has a branding effect on teens. She also mentions the unbranded kids an how they fight against corporations who try to brand them. Students brand colleges by trying to get into the best universities, many of them have tutor at an early age and take special classes with tutors. Many of the students parents encourage them to get into those universities such as Princeton and Harvard, therefore they spend about 500 an hour getting a tutor for their children.
Discussion Questions:
Clarification:
Do you agree with the author`s reasoning in which students brand colleges and other students feed into it?
Application:
After finishing the nonfictional text do you feel you should be labeled as a branded or unbranded teen? Explain your answer.
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About Me
- kayla brown
- My name is kayla and I am currently a student at king/drew magnet high school. I am an outgoing person with a kind heart and sense of humor. I enjoy the simple things in life that most people forget. My life has not been a piece of cake but with the lord on my side everything is possible.
Clarification:
ReplyDeleteI don't feel that wanting to go to a well known college is being "branded". There'e nothing wrong with wanting to attend the best.
Application:
I really don't know.
Clarification:
ReplyDeleteYes, i do because like she said they are trying to get into the best school and in a way it is branding.
It may not be a negative type of branding but it is still branding in a way.
Applcation:
I feel like if I'm both.
I'm a branded teen because like she said Im trying to get into the best university and not into a college, which is branding myself in a way, but then I am unbranded into not trying to be like the models in magazine and thinking about having plastic surgery like the girls mentioned in the book.