It is quite an interesting article and not only relates to America but in many other countries of the world especially as it resonate with my experience in Nigeria.

In the Nigerian case, admission into the universities and colleges is even much more complicated. Elite universities and colleges are seen as ''cash-cow'' where admission is a function of your network and resources available for disposal, particularly the federal and privately funded schools respectively. The federally funded schools are highly competitive due to the limited number of highly respected and classified  top notch schools with so much prestige. Applicants year-in-year-out increasingly outweigh their capacity to admit. Influence of parents in choosing a career path, school and program for their children often account for these failures rather than allowing them to follow their passion. Parents feel so proud and respected when they say; ''my daughter is studying Law at the University of Ibadan''.

Regrettably, the labor market discriminating degrees further worsen the situation, giving so much preference to foreign degrees. This amount for increase hunger for foreign degree holders in the country while relegating local degrees. For them, finding a reasonable employment is almost a nightmare. I remember how intimidating it was for me to have discovered the person sitting beside me had graduated from the University of Manchester while at a job interview. Even as I tried to encourage myself, it was still a feeling of losing the battle even before it began neither was I wrong after all.

Above all, I think parents should play a guiding role for their children to be more  aware of issues relating to their career choices rather than enforcing choices on them. And we can only hope for an ideal society that promotes the education of equality with an equal opportunity for all children to succeed.