it's your college's fault?
There are so many things wrong with this situation...
She graduated in April, then sued her college 3 months later for tuition and "the stress of her three-month job search." Makes it seem like she was only looking for jobs once she got out of school, which is one way not to get a job.
And of course, all reasonable employers love people with 2.7 GPAs and solid attendances. After all, as long as someone shows up to work, they're a valuable employee, right?
And apparently the career center is supposed to make companies interview with students. I'm sure the career center should go out of their way to make sure each individual student gets plenty of job offers. The student shouldn't need to be proactive at all (granted, she did send her cover letter and resume and make phone calls, and she did get some responses, but still complained that she didn't get enough).
Plus, it's so unfair that the career center favors people with better grades. The people with better grades get jobs more easily.. it must be because the career center favors them.
This article is a great example of how not to get a job coming out of college. So I just need to remember to do the opposite (or at least not the same).
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'The college charges nearly $6,000 per semester for out-of-state students and $2,300 for in-state, which the story says is more than local community colleges. Monroe doesn't require SAT scores for admission, isn't listed in U.S. News list of 1,400 colleges and Gimein couldn't find a list of publications by Monroe faculty.
ReplyDeleteGimein argues that Monroe is a trade school disguised as a college:
The very point of an institution like Monroe is to improve its students' standing in the work force, but the irony is that in comparison with traditional institutions, Monroe seems to do quite badly at helping graduates make a living. One measure of the cost-effectiveness of Monroe versus other institutions is the number of graduates who wind up defaulting on their loans. At Binghamton University, the flagship campus of New York's public system, 1.5 percent of students default on their loans. At Lehman, a school with average SAT math plus verbal scores around 870 (well below the national average for college freshman), the number is 3.2 percent.
At Monroe the numbers are much worse. Of the students who were to start repaying their loans in 2006, 9.5 percent are already in default. That's three times higher than at nearby Lehman and 80 percent higher than the national average of 5.2% (a number that is itself elevated by the dismal record of for-profit schools like Monroe).'
http://consumerist.com/5337382/sued-college-aint-exactly-harvard