Getting into college is a very stressful time in a senior’s life. It’s a time full of deadlines, tests, and apprehension about the next chapter of life. It’s a time of college visits, college applications, scholarship applications, essays, and interviews. Students have the pressure of completing their senior year with strong grades, thinking about what career path they may choose, where they might like to attend college, how is it going to get paid for, and in addition to all that, they have the
College admissions are crucial a student’s senior year of high school. There are many requirements that need to be satisfied in order to qualify for admissions at certain schools, as well as the checklist to apply to each school. Hopefully, as a junior the student prepared by taking the SAT/ACT, and visiting at least a handful of potential colleges. By the start of senior year, the student must complete a separate application for each college which is quite tedious, then submit high school transcripts
Do Colleges Need to Use Other Admission Criteria? Creativity is necessary in the world. Creative thinkers are what help push the world forward. Scientists, artists, journalists, are all creative thinkers, yet today’s standardized tests don’t accurately reflect the creativity that students possess. In fact, standardized tests such as ISTEP, ECAs, PSATs, ACTs and SATs, drive students to the breaking point. College requirements are getting stricter, so high school students are forced to buckle down
Why college admissions should change. I support changes in college admission process because not everyone can be qualify to be accepted into college. Students don't get accepted to college because they have low SAT test scores or because or their low GPA. Colleges believe that the student must “fit in” in order to get in. By fitting in it simply means that you must meet some requirements for college. Students focus more about fitting into college. In some colleges they seem to pay attention more
Why college admissions should change. I support changes in the college admission process because not everyone can be qualified to be accepted into college. Students are rejected from college because they have low SAT test scores or because of their low GPA. Colleges believe that the student must “fit in” in order to get in. By fitting in it simply means that you must meet some requirements for college. Students focus more about fitting into college. In some colleges they seem to pay attention more
could argue that standardized testing does a marvelous job in measuring student’s knowledge, skills and understanding because the exams are objective, fair, efficient, and comprehensive. Due to these reasons, “they are used for decisions about admission to colleges, graduate programs, and professional schools as well as qualification and licensing for many skilled occupations and demanding professions such as law and medicine” (Walberg). Professor Walberg, a member on the of the Koret Task Force of K-12
Why college admissions should change. I support changes in the college admission process because most people are not qualified to be accepted in to college. Students are rejected from college because they have low SAT test scores or because of their low GPA. Colleges believe that the student must “fit in” in order to get in. By “fitting in” it simply means that you must meet some requirements for college. Students focus more about fitting in to college. In some colleges they seem to pay attention
Accepted The college admissions standards in America today are more rigorous and in depth than they have ever been but can also be somewhat unfair. The process of applying can be quite stressful for students and parents alike as they try to successfully weave their way through an expansive application that includes everything from essays to transcripts and so much more. And while the feeling of being accepted leads to true exuberance because of all that hard work (as I can personally attest
excoriates the college/university institutes that manage online applications for prospecting students, by allowing unrestrained access, being undemanding, and allows easy public access. Beres states students would more likely get into college by prohibiting the College Application, in which he feels, is not personalized, but rather a “crapshoot in this day and age” (A Sequence for Academic Writing 79). Beres enlightens the reader that the absence of devotion, in the process of completing the college application
Legacy/Children of Alumni Assignment 6th edition Instructions: Read Chapter 9a. Answer questions 1-8 below in number format (not essay) on “ONE MORE TIME” Legacies/Children of Alumni on p. 403. To make sure you have the correct essay, it begins with “I know a lot of people who whine and complain about the children of alumni…..” Note: Do NOT answer the questions on any other story or a zero will be given. 1. What’s the issue at hand (question at issue)? • The issue