The fundamental reason why college students in Chicago seldom slack off is that the cost of going to the University of Chicago is too high, and the annual tuition and living expenses are close to 60 thousand dollars. Therefore, every day of study at the University of Chicago and every class you attend can be converted into tuition accordingly. He must learn as much as possible at the University of Chicago, otherwise he will feel sorry for the high price paid by his parents. In other words, when each student pays the same tuition fee, the more he learns, the higher the excess profit he gets. Therefore, every student studies hard. This is especially true for those students who study on scholarships. On the one hand, scholarships are awarded annually. If students don't work hard and get poor grades, it is likely to mean losing next year's scholarship; On the other hand, those students who can't afford to go to the University of Chicago cherish their learning opportunities more because they get scholarships, hoping to get grades after graduation and give back to their alma mater for their help. Psychologically speaking, this endogenous incentive effect is the most significant.
I used to think that students from top universities in the United States seldom slacked off, because they implemented the system of "lenient entry and strict exit" and the elimination rate was high, forcing students not to be lazy in this process. This may be a misunderstanding. In fact, for the top universities in the United States, the competition for admission is extremely fierce, and the conditions are not "wide" at all-most of the "wide" admission conditions are public universities and community colleges; Except for a few universities such as Caltech, the elimination rate of many universities is not very high. The same is true of Zhida. Although the school attaches great importance to the quality of students' training, it is usually not too difficult for students. However, for students, if your report card is all C, don't say you are embarrassed, you will lose your competitiveness in employment-the employment agency will not hire you just because you are a graduate of the University of Chicago. In the highly competitive talent market, if you can't get a position with ideal income, it means that your huge investment in college will be wasted, which is obviously unacceptable to both students and families.
Comparatively speaking, the tuition fees of China University-even the top Peking University and Tsinghua-are very low, only 5,000 yuan a year, less than/kloc-0.000 US dollars. Except for some students with financial difficulties-the state and schools often have a policy of reducing tuition fees for these students-many students do not feel how high the cost of going to college is, or do not have a strong intuitive feeling about the cost of going to college. So for them, learning more and learning less makes no difference. On the other hand, because the repeated training before the college entrance examination is too hard, students will inevitably have some thoughts of muddling along after entering the university. In addition, because the university curriculum is out of touch with the social demand, the employer can't observe the students' actual ability from the course report, and can only make a decision on whether to hire or not through alternative indicators, such as school reputation, social activities, and even parental status, thus affecting the students' emphasis on course learning. Therefore, contrary to the phenomenon that American students are extremely hard after going to college-the harder the humanities students are-the more relaxed the China students are after going to college-the more relaxed the humanities students are, which greatly reduces the quality of undergraduate education in China University.