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CMV: I believe universities should be more exclusive

I think everyone is going to agree that the current educational status of the united states is bad at best. The extremely high costs and the saturated laboral market are driving young people to start their lifes with a massive debt on their account and uncertainity on whether or not they are going to be able to get the job to pay for it. My point being that I eleibe this problem woulb be solver, or at it would help drastically if universities were much more exclusive. Full disclousure: Im not american, I follow the british educational system, which mostly suffers from the same problems than the american, gowever I opted to argue from an american view so that most people that are going to read this could relate to my arguments. In the british system there is an average made of all the exams and a grade "C" is calculated from this average, this means that if a student gets a 58% in an exam and the average of the students is 64% he will get a "D", if the average is 55% he will get a "B". This ensures that only a fraction of the class gets "B" and "A", the reason why Im explaining this is because Im unsure of whether or not the american system has a similar approach. Anyways, my underatanding is that if universities only admitted for entry students that had an average of "B" (or a gpa of 3, correct me if Im wrong on this) this would unsaturate the job market for university students, drive the prices of higher education down and also open the eyes to a lot of laboral opportunities that are looked down upon just because of voncept that you need a university diploma to be succesfull in life. (By the way Im not a native speaker so if I had spelling mistakes please overlook them and focus on the view)
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Education is important for its own sake. Universities aren't just job factories, they teach other important skills. Things like critical thinking, research skills, a base knowledge in core subjects like science and history, a widened worldview giving you empathy for the "other." Even if you take those skills and use them for nothing but flipping burgers or digging ditches, all of society is better for having more people be competent in these skills. 

Consider the insane amount of fake news floating around social media that gets bought hook, line and sinker, the people who deny basic scientific truths like climate change and evolution, the way the American presidential race has become more about a popularity contest and sounding good than people thinking about the actual issues, partially because they don't know how to. Some of these problems could be at least not as bad if everyone had the right to a college education. Even better, if they started teaching these skills before college.