Readings from a few weeks back

From the two readings “Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College Game” by Shamus Rahman Khan, and “Up from the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither,” they indicate what people think as the norm, and what people may see as an exception in the social world today. The former book illustrates the advantages and privileges that the rich gets when attending elite boarding schools, which in fact anyone could get in if they are able to pay for the tuition (which may cost a fortune). Students attending these elite boarding schools get a much better chance in the application to the highly prestigious schools compared to the middle/ lower class even if the students are comparatively under-qualified than other students who get accepted through normal procedures of application. I think this is very unfair to those of the middle/lower class who had actually worked their hardest and achieved very high grades, but were not accepted because they did not attend elite boarding schools or have any connections in the university. For those who actually want to improve their lives with graduating from such a prestigious university like Harvard did not even have a chance to prove themselves to the society that they deserve a better living standard.
However, the latter reading, about Della Mae Justice who started off as lower class and worked the social ladder up to middle class was an exception and was a pleasure to read. This reading proves that there is still hope that the poor could work hard to prove that they deserve a better life. I am especially engaged to this reading because it somehow reflects my family background. My grandfather was considered lower class when he first entered the labor market. He worked very hard and luckily had some chances to make profit through his business, given the fact that the capital he first used to start is business was lent from a friend because he did not even have enough capital to do so. After working very hard and barely having any holidays, he managed to climb up the social ladder to middle class, where my father started off as when he started working. Now, according to statistics my family is considered the upper-middle class, which proves, again, that through hard work, it is possible to improve in the socioeconomic ladder.