I Am Very Sorry That Summary

In education parts, we can find passion for education and a change in perception of education, but also racial segregation in those days. In “I Am Very Sorry That…,” it stated, “This year applications at Harvard, described by the Harvard Crimson as the largest and most oppressive number in its history, totaled 6,700, some 1,000 more than in 1964. Harvard sent out its long acceptance letter to 1,370 students April 16. Columbia received 3,310 applications and accepted 1,125.” It showed situations in which many students apply to universities and particularly college admissions were biased toward prestigious universities in the East. In response to that situation, William B. Crist, executive secretary of the Midwest College Council advised that applicants could get more opportunities in many
Middlebury, Amherst, and others eased regulations on transfers. There were perceptions that the transfer was like gambling and the transfer students would be less passionate about school than the other graduates. However, students developed their faith in the subject. More and more transfer students recognized that they needed to change colleges because of a mature awareness that the faculty and facilities at their first college did not measure up to their needs. Also, the article stated, “Mobility is also encouraged by the decline in the old school ties, the rise in urban, nonresidential schools, and by the examples of job-hopping professors to whom the packed suitcase is as necessary as the Ph.D. Moreover, the fact that America as a whole has become a more mobile society has made switching colleges less suspect, less accompanied by feelings of guilt.” Thus, we could see, with the development of mobility of the society, mature awareness of that student made choices for themselves in their studies regardless of old perception about the