Some guidance counselors and others have criticized such programs for pressuring students to decide on a college before they may have done enough research to know if that institution is right for them.
ITT recruiters used the notorious "Pain Funnel," with escalating hurtful questions aimed at pressuring students to sign up.
The US government is figuring out what to do about for-profit colleges that operate fraudulently -- by pressuring students to enroll with false statistics about what their degree can earn them.
-- ITT pressured students to stay enrolled by telling staff to "keep the student's financial aid ramifications in front of their face" and threatening to refer student loans to collections agencies if they dropped out, while explaining that if they stayed in school, the loans would be deferred.
Fears of being crushed by debt or of falling off the economic ladder are pressuring students to conform, and we must find ways to counteract these pressures or we risk undermining our scientific productivity as well as our broad cultural creativity.
Telling students "This is important to you!" would likely be counterproductive, as it is a form of controlling language language that pressures students to complete tasks, thereby reducing autonomy (Reeve, 2009).
