believing that it is stupid.” Likewise, if a poor test-taker is judged by their SAT score, they could be forced to attend an inadequate institute of higher education. For decades, the SAT has been “the test” that makes or breaks a student's chances of getting into their top college. Generally, the privileged populace do well, but minorities and women do not come out as strong and are therefore limited to college choice. The SAT has proven to be an unsuitable, biased method for predicting success of students
Should SAT scores determine if a student gets into college? A high school senior has big dreams of doing something with their future. The senior is rated is in the top 30% of their graduating class. Always known for receiving great grades, and has a positive attitude no matter what. But wait, you cannot forget that the high school is greatly known for their extracurricular activities. Even though the student seems to have a great educational background, what could possibly be stopping the student
explain what happened. I had to write a reflection essay about my Community Engagement Placement. I worked at Retirement Village, for more than 80 hours, and I had to write an essay expressing my feelings about what I did and what I experienced there. I wanted to give a lot of thought and work to that essay because a lot happened and I spent a long time in the place. I was intending to write the essay once the placement finished and that was on 30/04/2012 Unfortunately, 01/05/2012, my wife went
across the U.S. millions of kids are preparing to take the SATs. They are looking into SAT prep classes, SAT tutors, and SAT prep groups, all to get ready to take the SATs for the next school year. The reason why so many kids are looking into dishing out hundreds or even thousands of dollars on SAT prep is because of the weight that SATs hold on college admissions. Colleges, guidance counselors, and even teachers stress the importance of the SAT on the chance of the student getting into the college of
student to take and pass the class. Also I Joined extra classes this year to help my choice as for my major for next year. These classes were medical courses I took over at SAHS (Santa Ana High School) so in total I had 7 classes and my day ended at 5:30. It was a rocky road to adapting to getting home later that I used to before but I got used to managing my time with my school classes and my after school class.The work always piles up but I knew what I was getting myself into and getting through
Some interesting contributions here, from the (6) other people who weighed in, in some way or other. Oh, no. Essay Time again. But I will try to keep this manageably brief. I think I marked this Topic as General. Not Political. I do not use the Checkbox system to filter the Topics for me on the Inbox or Read side. I do try to Color Inside The Lines with the Checkbox system when I start a Topic myself. A couple of years back, I took a little flak for going Political with some of my comments, within
can assist in explaining this paradox. When coupled with consideration of other social classifications such as race and class, a clearer picture emerges of a legal profession in need of reform. This essay will primarily focus on commercial solicitors as gender inequality is most evident in this area. I sat down with corporate city lawyer, Amy Fenny, to help reframe the existing dialogue on gender equality by assessing gender bias and its impact on those who seek and attain positions of power within
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In the United States, equal opportunity is considered a core value and policymakers tout the triumphs of a number of equality-for-women movements. So why, then, does such a deficit of women in technological industries still exist? According to researcher Amanda L. Griffith, only 21% of women entering college plan to major in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field and few of those women actually attain a degree in a STEM field (915). Although young women are not explicitly
REFLECTIVE ESSAY (CRITICAL INCIDENT) TAHIR ZAHOOR AHMED Reflections No single incident is significant enough to have individually affected the enormous journey I am on. Let me just reflect on my evolution from the impact of each significant theory on me, the integrative application of skills learnt, to the palpable discovery of a new consciousness, a new frontier. It is the first day of the Diploma I sit transfixed to my chair, as much a stranger to myself as I am to the others in the