Consider Yourself Privilaged

A privilege is defined as a special advantage held as a prerogative of status or rank and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others. This definition makes it obvious that a college education is undoubtedly a privilege rather than a right that everyone has. Everyone has the right to apply for college, but not everyone is accepted. Even if you are accepted to college you may not be financially able to attain a college education. After you get accepted and are able to pay you still don’t have the right to a college education, but rather it takes a lot of hard work and dedication.
Sure everyone has the right to apply to college, yet those who get accepted are the privileged ones. Almost every school has a set number of students that they plan to admit each year and most of the time the number admitted is nearly half of the number who applied. “Colleges compete to improve their rankings—particularly U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges”—by using wait ...