
There are many reasons behind students competing to get admission to universities, especially renowned ones. I believe it is a positive effect, though a few of its impacts are negative.
Education is vital today, for a highly educated person can have a bright future. The quality of tertiary education and the university one passes out from can make a lot of difference to the kind of career a person chooses and the start of it a student gets, which can prove helpful for a child. Also, when a learner is in a university, that person avails an opportunity to interact with many other learners, and mostly these interactions result in mutual knowledge sharing and lifelong friendships. Also, when students interact with like-minded people, they understand themselves better. Moreover, the guidance of scholarly professors and lecturers can prove to be a boon for a student at that age when the student is preparing to enter the real world.
All these factors become superior if the university is in a nation or the world. The mere label of passing out from some highly renowned universities, such as Harvard, Cambridge, and the IITs, opens many opportunities and brings respect for them. Since there aren’t many universities and highly renowned universities are few, there is tremendous competition to get into these.
This scenario about tertiary education has a few drawbacks. Sometimes, even highly-intelligent children fail to get into these universities or get their desired subjects since the seats are too few: consequently, it can cause stress among these students.
On the other hand, this gives me a chance to learn a lot from eminent people around them and study.