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In his twelfth paragraph he talks about how education use to follow the genetically tree of those who had attended before and how after 1940 we begin to see these numbers decrease and students begin to enter based on intelligence, causing another transition in the piece. In his thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth paragraph we see an increase in competiveness for Ivy League colleges and a more open availability of higher education to the masses. This in paragraph sixteen and seventeen we see how both theories one and two react to this seeing how it degrades the system and the other having issues with the competition for top-tier colleges. In paragraph eighteen and nineteen we see how valuable an education is financially and why people would want a higher education as well as how the demand for Americanized higher education is on the