Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.
The decision to attend a university is not a trivial one. Students spend the majority of high school trying to achieve the highest GPA, rack up the most unique extra-curricular activities, and maintain an excellent rapport with professors hoping that the fruits of their labor will be in the form of a stellar recommendation letter, or even a university acceptance. The prompt suggests that education should be provided free of costs to those students who have received admission to a university but are unable to pay for it themselves. While I understand there are limitations to this argument, I strongly do agree that underprivileged students' tuition should be sponsored for two reasons.
To begin, it is no secret that college education is extremely expensive; most families save meticulously over the course of years, even decades, to provide for their child's college tuition. Some families, however, live from paycheck to paycheck, lacking the privilege to be provident and cannot set up a savings account at all. Even if one were to assume that a student was saving up to pay for his or her own tuition, it is unlikely that he or she will even make a substantial amount above minimum wage. Suppose the son of a janitor and a housewife worked sedulously throughout high school with the goal of becoming a computer scientist. He applies to three colleges and gets selected by all, but cannot afford to attend any without financial aid, for which his applications were rejected. Considering the student showed dedication, passion, and the competency that qualifies him to attend the university, surely he would be an asset to the school's environment. At the end of the day, universities are focused on the contributions students can make on their campus, and if he adds value to the institute, then the opportunity should not be stolen from him due to his inability to pay.
Further, if the opportunity to specialize in a professional field continues to be taken away from lesser privileged students, then the gap between the rich and the poor would continue to expand. Especially in today's technological age, where the advent of Artificial Intelligence technology is replacing human jobs at a prolific rate, the risk of unskilled labor becoming obsolete runs rampant. For example, a high school senior may be working as a grocery shop clerk to save up for college but is fired after the store reallocates their wages into buying more automatic stack-and-scan machines. He not only loses his steady income but his only chance to attend college is stripped away from him. Wealthy students will only continue to pursue higher education, leaving the opportunities to advance in technological fields to a very specific socioeconomic group, while unskilled laborers are left without means, continuing to get poorer. Thus, providing free college education to students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds would ultimately be an investment, as overall specialization increases, and the potential for advancement does proportionally as well.
Some may argue that providing education to students unable to afford it may place an additional burden on the universities, the government, and taxpayers as well. While this is a valid concern, it provides a profitable return of investment in the long-term. As the level of education rises, new technology and innovation are introduced into society also allowing for new job opportunities. Consequently, the GDP of a country may rise, crime may decrease, and overall social welfare will have risen as well. Take the example of countries like Denmark: education until college is free, their GDP is excellent, and their population is one of the happiest in the world!
In conclusion, the issue of college affordability should not be what prevents someone from pursuing higher education. Ultimately, the investment of resources in children with potential, knowledge, and dedication is, undoubtedly worthwhile. The youth of today is our future, so to take a chance in them would be to take a chance in our future as well.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 149, Rule ID: VERY_UNIQUE[1]
Message: Use simply 'unique'.
Suggestion: unique
...to achieve the highest GPA, rack up the most unique extra-curricular activities, and mainta...
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Line 1, column 638, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
... strongly do agree that underprivileged students tuition should be sponsored for two rea...
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Line 3, column 943, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...ity, surely he would be an asset to the schools environment. At the end of the day, uni...
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Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...oes proportionally as well. Some may argue that providing education to students un...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 93.0 58.6224719101 159% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3413.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 658.0 442.535393258 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18693009119 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06473204393 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07906073608 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 351.0 215.323595506 163% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533434650456 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 1094.4 704.065955056 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8921410901 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.208333333 118.986275619 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4166666667 23.4991977007 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.08333333333 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208963548252 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574856177021 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0584777026649 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117756045341 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505370926968 0.0667264976115 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.8420337079 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 187.0 100.480337079 186% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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