Case Study : Snaps To Harvard Admissions

In the article Our Crazy College Crossroads, Frank Bruni, addresses the topic of rejection involving students who are applying to colleges by using pathos to connect to his readers on the topic. The author appeals to his readers by uprooting the idea of rejection and worth that are commonly felt by students who are rejected from their top school. He does this through the use of metaphor, rhetorical questions and aggressive statements. Bruni attacks many opposing views such as of Malcolm Gladwell by criticizing the science behind his an argument. Bruni also points out the difference between those who get in to Ivy League colleges and those who don’t. He does this by presenting the means that some individuals lack such as financial support,

In his essay “Frank Bruni” which appear Rethinking College Admissions, where he was insistent that college admissions process should change, and this essay published in New York Times. The college admissions process look for many things that hard for the students to have. In sated of accepting the student how come from poor society and develop there knowledge so they can have better live, they accept the students who come from the best school. Moreover, they emphasize on the student who have high grade on standardized tests, the AP classes and extracurricular activities without looking for the students who cannot do this things. All this requirements are for pacific class of people who can have it, even for the sport scholarship they look for

Facts: Abigail Fisher (Plaintiff) is a Caucasian woman that was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin (UT - Austin) for the fall of 2008. Fisher did not graduate in the top ten percent of her class; therefore, she was not automatically accepted to the University under the Top Ten Percent Plan. Instead, Fisher’s application was evaluated under the Holistic Review Program. The Holistic Review Program evaluates candidates based on their Personal Achievement Index, which looks at: (1) the mean score of candidates’ application essays; and (2) the candidates’ Personal Achievement Score, which is calculated through a holistic review of the applicant’s personal life, activities and leadership, accolades, and mitigates “special circumstances, such as the applicant’s socioeconomic status. . . and race.”

Recently, the world-renowned Harvard University was in the news. However, they made headlines not for a ground-breaking study as they often have, but rather for kicking ten incoming students out. These ten students were kicked out for posting inappropriate memes in a Facebook group chat. For the uninitiated, a meme is a funny picture posted online. Memes have various formats, and there were several different “types” of memes shared through this group chat. These memes contained various tasteless themes such as anti-Semitism, pedophilia, and racism, among others. These memes were offensive enough to result in the university revoking the students’ offers of admission. While these students are likely bright enough to attend another

Colleges and universities have found numerous ways throughout the years to protect their students from the outside world. One measure that colleges have taken to ensure this is that they have stopped continuing to allow comedians and speakers present at their schools due to upset students. These students did not care for the jokes that were being made by the speakers. Another measure taken by colleges is that minority students can eliminate anything they do not want to think about, read about, or be challenged

On December 2, 2016, in the opinion editorial, “How to Get In,” Susan Estrich, best-selling author and liberal columnist for the Creators, argues that hard work, not college acceptances, determine people’s future successes, challenging the notion that people’s opportunities and potentials are defined by the colleges they enter. Refuting the misconception that “getting into the right college is a meal ticket for life,” Estrich argues that GPA’s and LSAT’s may decide the difference between rejection and acceptance, but ultimately, tenacious hard work throughout life counts “for more than anything else,” before concluding that the “secret to a good application” is honesty and that, although she understands admissions can be partisan and erroneous through personal experience, in the end, she “did just fine”- an echoing sentiment to all prospective college applicants. Estrich

While applying to colleges, Abigail Fisher had relatively average academic qualifications. She finished high school with a 3.59 GPA and an 1180/1600 on the SAT. Because her GPA did not place her in the top 10, she was forced the compete in the holistic application review process. In this process, her Personal Achievement Index was calculated (as described in a previous section) and compared to other applicants that weren’t admitted under the top 10% rule. However, her PAI was relatively low compared to other applicants. For the 2008 entering class, 81% were admitted under

Eric Hoover, in “What Colleges Want in an Applicant (Everything)” explains that the college admissions process is very problematic. Many feel the process isn’t fair, focusing too much on testing, financial concerns, alumni status, and other factors that don’t show the type of person each student really is. In fact, several universities, such as Olin’s College of Engineering, have attempted to improve the problem, but for some it seems nearly impossible, or perhaps unnecessary. The hope is to make changes in higher, Ivy League colleges in order to disperse changes beyond.

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The article “Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook: ‘What Were They Thinking?!’” by Joy Peluchette and Katherinne Karl focuses on their research on the reasoning behind the inappropriate Facebook posts of college students. After their research they conclude that the posts of students completely depends on the specific way the student wants to illustrate themselves to their intended audience. Peluchette and Karl strengthen their argument with frequent use of various statistics and transition words; however, they weaken their argument with choosing a topic that can not be fully prove and the lack of in-depth thinking.

Yet, last August, a sorority at the University of Alabama kicked a pledge sister out of their organization for sending an offensive Snapchat. The picture was celebrating that Chi Omega was off probation, however the sender was using a racial slur. Exactly 365 days earlier, a snapchat was sent celebrating the fact that the same sorority had no black women in their new pledge class. While these members were dismissed from the organization, the issue of race within traditionally white environments still flourishes.

The political actors in this case are the college students and high school seniors applying to colleges nationwide. Their interests are for themselves and their futures. If they are not going to get accepted to the college of their dreams just because they are or are not a certain race, that will create a much larger uproar in this community. Another political actor is American universities themselves. They want to create a diverse learning environment as well as keep the stigma that the specific university is not bias towards one race. The universities want to keep their standard ways they’ve had for years of keeping a fake diverse environment by discriminating against the majority races in their colleges.

My purity is the purity of a hard worker who is passionate about cultivating her skill-set. I am one who is self-actualized and altruistic. I am one who will not be defeated. I am one who has seen life after Howard. I shall not be burdened on the land of the Mecca. I shall not be encumbered by the weight of my textbooks. I shall not be thwarted by the earliness of my classes.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” (George Orwell) This past Spring of 2017 the University of Harvard revoked ten incoming freshman admissions for engaging in a meme group message on Facebook for the class of 2021. The freshman called the group chat “ Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.” The memes were derogatory towards different races. The students posted jokes about the Holocaust and racist jokes towards Mexicans and other races, pedophillia, and child abuse. These Memes that the incoming students posted on Social Media caused a controversy within the campus. Students who felt perturbed about the memes screenshotted and emailed the university authorities.Which lead to an investigation and which they sought to revoke the admissions of ten students.

Harvard accepts mediocre applicants if they are legacies in hope to get generous donations from their families. These donations help bring the school up and make it a better place. Many of the stories described talked about past Alumni donating to help persuade their child's acceptance.