"The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students" by Alvin Chang, begins by discussing, while more Americans are attending college, the wealth gap is growing. At the same time, college degrees are worth less and less. The chance of poor students graduating high school is much lower than that of the wealthier students. This causes other issues for underprivileged kids, even when they make it to college. Besides financial issues, colleges teach certain values that only help out the wealthier students, while creating a "glass ceiling" for everyone else. There is a bit of emphasis on several reasons that some students attended college. The poorer students had reasons like, getting a degree in order to work/provide for their families.…show more content… Chang is a journalist that has worked for some big-name companies including ESPN and Boston Globe. In a number of his article, he uses cartoons and statistics to help the reader get a better understanding of the issues he usually addresses which include discrimination and. Chang also regularly discusses in his articles how the impact of the little choices some make have on others. As for the audience, he is speaking to college students and professors, as the issues in this article are directly impacting the environment in which they are…show more content… For example, he says, "University of Cincinnati psychologist Shane Gibbons, who has researched this topic and counsel's first-generation students, said these students are often raised by parents who have working class jobs - and in those workplaces, being assertive or individualistic can get you fired." He also uses a lot of examples of logos by speaking about statistics in his article. An example of this would be, "84 percent of administrators from top-tier schools and 69 percent from second-tier schools preferred the independent traits." This is just one of the many examples used in Chang's article. He also put this stat at the beginning of the article to help further prove some of the biases in the schooling system. cartoon", the author, Alvin Chang, discusses how poorer students are put at a disadvantage in college because the system is set up to work in favor the wealthy. Chang is a journalist that has worked for some big-name companies including ESPN and Boston Globe. In a number of his article, he uses cartoons and statistics to help the reader get a better understanding of the issues he regularly addresses which include: Dehumanization, discrimination, etc. Chang also regularly discusses in his articles how the impact of the little choices some make have on others. As for the audience,