http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/americas-top-colleges-have-a-rich-kid-problem/276195/
On the article published on May 24, Jordan Weissmann addresses the issue of Top Colleges consisting mostly of students from wealthy families and criticizes their systems of lacking diverse economic levels within the school communities. By beginning with a graphical set of statistics on the Socioeconomic Distribution at Colleges, by Selectivity, Weissmann presents the audience with evidence of his arguments later on in the article. By this, the audience is likely to quickly absorb and understand the claims and implications without questioning the validity of the information. Weissmann notes the problematic issues that follow this trend, supporting why this socioeconomic distribution in colleges is a troubling fact. For instance, he states, "If you think that higher education should be a ladder for upward mobility, then you should regard these numbers as a disgrace." Wiessman continues to use logos by referring to numerical data, other writers and experts, such as Josh Freedman, who had written about the high costs of Universities, the economists Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery, and the circle graph on "High achievers by family income quartile."
Jordan Weissmann discusses this topic of the lack of economic diversity in colleges to alert the public, and perhaps even the colleges, about its unfairness to the poorer but still intelligent students who do not have equal opportunities as the rich students. His article does not require a higher level of education to be understood, and his audience consists of the general readership, especially adults and young adults directly affected by the issue. Weismann successfully informs and concerns the audience with his main use of logos and a easily comprehensible tone of assertion.
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