No matter how far in advance an offer comes, schools pressure students to never, ever turn it down or even ask for time to consider it.
Don't pressure students to make decisions, but give them worthwhile information to take away with them – they might struggle to take in what you're saying in the moment.
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.
Poor supervision by senior colleagues appears to have a role to play in MAE causation, manifesting as pressuring students to administer drugs more quickly, not supervising or assisting closely enough or giving unclear/incorrect instructions (n = 4) [ 34, 40, 42, 43, 45, 63, 86].
"The pressures on students to be successful in all aspects of their lives are completely unrealistic," said one head of student services.
The pressures on students to make themselves the perfect job candidates are huge, and they are forced to look for new and creative ways to make themselves stand out from the crowd.
