Both the poor and the rich find the accessibility into university difficult. Do you agree or disagree?

It is argued that getting admission in universities are becoming tougher not only for financially poor but

also

for wealthy students. I,

however

, presume that economically weaker students are facing

this

bitter reality rather than financially wealthier students. It is because poor students simply cannot fulfil two major selection criteria of universities and colleges:

university

fees and outstanding grades. Prohibitively expensive fees that are required for admission have refrained thousands of students away from attaining tertiary education. In most of the industrialized and developing countries, fee per semester exceeds hundredfold the average incomes of the residents, which has resulted in the decline of the number of graduates representing the

unprivileged

class.

This

scenario can be reinforced from the recent statistics issued by the UN

headquarter

Suggestion

headquarters

, which reveals that 1,000,000 students from all over the globe failed to join universities just being unable to afford the tuition fees.

Furthermore

, enrolling students on the basis of grades in high school and scores in

university entrance exam

Suggestion

the university entrance exam

has

also

proven to be against the students from poor family.

This

is because a large majority of poor students have low grades both in high school and

university

qualification test; contrarily, their counterparts from

moneyed family

Suggestion

a moneyed family

possess higher scores in every test. The underlying reason for outstanding performances of affluent students is directly linked to the advanced infrastructure of their high school as well as the ability of their parents to hire home tutors for specific subject.

Hence

, the poverty results in incompetent students and

consequently

restrict them away from

university

degrees. In conclusion, requirement of large money and excellent academic qualification has substantially reduced the number of students from poor family in universities;

as a result

, only rich people are privileged for attaining higher education.