You are a heartbeat and a checkbook

So, I work for a large University in Illinois (take a guess), and have for the better part of the past decade. These jobs have shown me the truth. In the eyes of the administration you are nothing more than a checkbook and a heartbeat. The university needs your money and they need the enrollment numbers for the federal funding. How does this impact you, you may ask? Well, the people most at risk of the university scam are those on the wait list.

I have deemed the wait-list as the lambs waiting for the slaughter. You have not met the requirements for automatic admission, and that means you are likely never able to gain admission to a major (other than geography and philosophy or any other major that you can list on your unemployment application) at the university. The lie the university community perpetrates on college students is that if you are admitted, you will actually get a degree. Well, this is a total lie. You, with your 18 ACT having ass, and a transfer GPA of 2.0 at some bullshit community college will get smoked like a cheap cigar at a University.

The professors, or more likely, graduate assistants (like a even more bitter version of me) will absolutely hate you. You fuck with the ultimate goal which is research (this is me again, only I tend to sympathize with undergrads who have been sold the fraudulent bill of goods). Your professors do not care, they have the 6 figure income job with tenure and could give a limp dick about you problems with fixed annuity questions.

You are nothing more than a placeholder for the university. You will pay a year or two of tuition and fees and never, ever get the degree you want. Spend that money "finding yourself" in community college. It will cost a shit-load less and you won't have the epic failure of a University to add you your psychiatric review. More to come on Community College in future posts.