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Colleges and Selective Admissions

 

            In today's world, society feels that it is required to have a college degree in order to live a sustainable or successful lifestyle. Some may argue that colleges should have selective admissions. Selective colleges admit the best of the best students. They select over achievers who have high grade point averages and high test scores. They tend to look for students who are not only involved in their schools but their community as well. I believe that all schools should have open admissions due to the fact that everyone deserves an equal opportunity, it can minimize acts of crime, and increase success within society.
             I personally feel that any student who has completed high school should have the opportunity to pursue a college degree. In my opinion high school is a lot harder than college. If someone has a rough high school experience it can affect their grades. Sometimes students have a hard time adjusting to high school from middle school and their freshman year is what messes up their transcripts. There are some students who do not know what they want to do with their lives after high school so they do not take high school seriously. Once they figure out they want to attend college, it's too late to recover their grades. When it comes to test scores not everyone are good test takers. There are a lot of students who do exceptionally well in classrooms but when it comes to taking the actual test they get paranoid and forget everything they have retained. Rather you pass a test should not determine rather you are smart or dumb. For example, if someone is having a bad day and they fail their exam I do not believe that they should be penalized for it. A lot of the times students get so stressed out before the exams that their brain crashes when it is actually time to take it. People should have the opportunity to actually prove themselves and what they are capable of doing in other ways.


Essays Related to Colleges and Selective Admissions

1. Colleges and Socioeconomic Mobility

Elite institutions are privately owned learning institutions that have a high cost of attendance in terms of fees and other charges and quite selective in the cadre of students that gain admission and over the tears have predominantly served students from upper and middle upper socio economic status. ... Access to college education has greatly changed in the last fifty years. ... There has also been a gradual change in recruitment, admission, marketing and financial aid extended to students. ... From the early 1950's, graduates from the public schools increasingly outperformed the candi...

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2. Race and Education

Should race be considered in the admission process at Universities? Race should never be considered in the admission process at universities, by considering Race at the admission process they are discriminating minor communities. ... Universities also use race in admission process to promote diversity on campus and in life itself. It is a fact that one's chances of going to a better college improves depending on the quality of high school education, which most black people don't get it as they come from less affluent background than whites and therefore have less access to b...

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3. Affirmative Action

If the nine justices strike down the use of race as a factor in admission at the University of Michigan, there will be far less racial diversity at the best-known colleges in the United States. ... In nineteen ninety-six, the American Lawyer reported that only forty-five Hispanic students and sixteen black students in the country had an LSAT score at or above the 92nd percentile and a grade-point average of 3.5 or better "scores good enough for admission to three-quarters of the nation's law schools, but below the mean scores of the students admitted to the nation's seven or so...

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4. Against Affirmative Action

If the nine justices strike down the use of race as a factor in admission at the University of Michigan, there will be far less racial diversity at the best-known colleges in the United States. ... In nineteen ninety-six, the American Lawyer reported that only forty-five Hispanic students and sixteen black students in the country had an LSAT score at or above the 92nd percentile and a grade-point average of 3.5 or better "scores good enough for admission to three-quarters of the nation's law schools, but below the mean scores of the students admitted to the nation's seven or so...

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5. The Road To Success

Colleges and Universities offer advanced study after high school or junior college in a variety of fields. ... "By using strategy and innovation students can gain admission to competitive colleges and universities where they will achieve their full intellectual and human potential,"" as said at http://www.ivysuccess.com/. ... Just keep a realistic viewpoint and remember the Ivy League admissions phase is not an easy one. Last year was the toughest year ever for elite college admissions. ... I say these things not to discourage you but, rather, to prepare you for what lies ahead, a challenging...

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6. Ethical Decision Making

One of the most profound ethical decisions that I see many face more often than not is preferential admissions in to universities and colleges. ... The admissions program set aside 16 spaces out of every 100 for students admitted through a "special admissions program" for minority applicants. ... Powell's controlling opinion supported the use of race in college admissions. ... "The result, , has been to perpetuate systematic racial double standards in admissions at virtually all of the nation's most selective universities," (Taylor Jr., 2001), "Powell gave the educational establishm...

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7. Affirmative Action

Michael Barone would agree that some university environments are not for everyone, especially those at selective universities. ... If college admissions boards would become aware and see that hard work provides much better returns to their institutions in the long run, perhaps they would change their minds. ... College admissions procedures need to take into account that there is a right place for everyone, and the fact that they are accepting people on the basis of socioeconomic and racial factors is just upsetting that delicate balance. ... In the scene where the Harvard board of admissions ...

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8. Affirmative action 20

Mainly addressing the issue of affirmative action in college admissions. What is the evidence that supports arguments for, or arguments against affirmative action policies in college admissions? ... Their are four major issues clearly linked to the admission and graduation rates of minority students in higher education. ... In most cases, the minority schools had: *Crowded classrooms *Teachers with fewer advanced degrees, and degrees from less prestigious or less selective colleges *Fewer resources for counseling those students who relied more on counselors for course decisions and for makin...

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