Response to Carey

I think that Carey's overall argument is that the for-profit colleges are flawed in the way that they scam students, but are necessary for the growth of education in the United States. One of his claims is that for-profits purposely aim for low income students so that they can get federal aid. He supports this by stating the statistic that 25% of the federal student aid goes to for-profit colleges even though they only contain 10% of the college student in America. He also claims that the for-profits give out student loans to people who are very likely to default on them. Carey states that these colleges still make money because it is a law that the money from those loans are guaranteed by the government if defaulted. Another one of his claims is that despite their issues, these colleges are actually necessary. His explains this by showing that they offer convenient classes, cater to the students who are often ignored by the traditional universities, and help with the overwhelming amount of people going back to school that the traditional colleges can't fit. I was particularly persuaded that these colleges are actually useful because Carey gave many examples as to why they are. I think he could've given more statistics and examples of how they target kids and how they get so much money from the government.