American Dream and College My junior year of high school was filled with high emotions, stressful moments, and tension about where to apply to college and where I would be accepted and ultimately attend. At a “Making the Most out of your Sixth Semester” forum that year, the entire junior class experienced lectures from the school’s college resource counselors about how to prepare for this arduous battle of college admissions. The way Sue Biermert, who is the College Admissions Counselor at my
Social Media Presence Policy for College Admission. More and more, colleges, universities and employers are using online research as part of the evaluation and selection of future students and employees. Social networking and online presence are becoming the source of applicants’ scrutiny, sometimes overrunning private spaces and bringing up issues of freedom of speech. In an effort for avoiding the violation prospect students’ rights, as well as attaining some legal grants to incorporate social
about children younger than 13 having the ability to use social media websites. Even though websites like Facebook may help teens and kids go to college in the future, children should not have an account because it can negatively affect their social and emotion development, it can make children vulnerable to sexual solicitations by adults, and their college chances may be ruined. Kids should not be allowed to have a social media account under 13 to ensure that these children are not vulnerable to sexual
expected to keep on driving as fast and as powerfully as they can in order to get into a “great” college, which would be followed by graduate school and then an actual job that would make a lot of money. In American society, common values include working hard, determination, and being so productive that free time is not even a question. However, this philosophy is taking a major toll on American college and high school students. For at least 40 years, America’s future has been steadily growing unmotivated
College Essay about Psychology Some say that mankind is complex beyond comprehension. I cannot, of course, speak for every other individual on this earth, but I do not believe that I am a very difficult person to understand. My life is based upon two very simple, sweeping philosophies: pragmatism in actions and idealism in thought. Thus, with these two attitudes, I characterize myself. Pragmatism in actions. I believe utterly in one of those old cliches: we are given only a limited time upon
For those in high school already starting to focus on college, there is a drive to do well in all areas of their character to boost the appearance of their college application. Students usually try to excel on the SATs, maintain a high GPA, and involve themselves in extracurricular activities in order to become the well-rounded, “renaissance man” or woman that colleges can’t surpass. Students understand that it is important to try their best in everything that they do, but should a three-hour,
Rutgers University. A Rutgers degree would not only mean a top tier education from one of the best schools in the world, more importantly, it would give me stability and a platform to go after my dreams. Through adversity and personal struggle after graduating high school in 2015, I have made an effort to never take opportunity lightly again. As a transfer student, It would be a humbling experience to learn new concepts and ideas while connecting with the diverse student
desire in me that someday I wanted to go to college and become valuable. I want to be successful in this life that I had been given and to become the women that God has created me to be. Graduating High School was the first step that I needed to accomplish before obviously moving on to the next step in my education. I graduated high school, took a year off of schooling and then started that next chapter in my life. I dedicated myself to one year of Bible College, and while I was there learning God’s word
student deals with the stress of getting into a college or a university. For example, an article called “The Absurdity of College Admissions” By Alia Wong says, “For all but a tiny handful of the hundreds of thousands of teenagers who applied—pouring countless hours into agonizing over forms”(Wong Atlantic). Students are dealing with writing college essay with each college application that the student is applying for has a different topic. Every university wants to find the best student to fit in their
The stress of the college admissions process is something that most students in high school will experience. ACT or SAT scores, grades and GPA and extracurriculars are all factors that go into the round table discussion for the admission of an individual into a particular college. This system of admission becomes increasingly competitive when students seeking admission all have similar grades and test scores. From there, admissions counselors must look to the activities of a student to somehow judge
Head Start to starting college. COVID-19 has stunted students. As the graduating class of 2023 faced preparing for the ACT throughout the pandemic, they became disadvantaged in their education and in the ability to perform well on the ACT. This was proven when the ACT results came out. The 2023 ACT test results are now the lowest they have been in about 30 years. Without the stability of ACT scores, colleges and universities began to scramble for ideas to help student admissions. Due to this, the majority
in the college admissions process in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Since then, affirmative action has become a big issue in the media; however, many people still do not even know what affirmative action is. Affirmative action is a policy to prevent discrimination on the basis of “color, religion, sex, or national origin.” Overall, it favors minorities that are often discriminated. It might sound like an excellent policy; however, the use of this policy in the college admissions process
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is a public research university located in Austin, Texas. UT Austin was founded in 1883, and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With a combined undergraduate and graduate student population of over 52,000 as of Fall 2023, UT Austin is considered a Public Ivy and is known for its significant contributions to research, with research expenditures totaling over $1 billion for the fiscal year 2023 (Blake, 2023). The “Varsity Blues
If interested in attending college after high school, being accepted to a “dream” college or a college of interest could end up being one of the largest milestones in a person’s life. Being accepted to that college could change a person’s life forever however, on the other hand if acceptance to the university was denied; it could result in detrimental effects on a person’s life. Although being accepted into a person’s dream college may not the maximal point in their lives’, it could cause an array
the perception of college is ill-conceived and there are multiple debates on how to improve it. College universities believe that having open admissions will increase the amount of matriculations, but the fact is the amount of students being enrolled into a four-year university has no relationship to the amount of students with academic aspirations. W.J. Reeves, an English professor at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, gives a few examples of how open admissions has changed education
Anxiously awaiting its contents, the high school senior stares at his mailbox. He has been awaiting a response for months from his dream college. He has endured the endless questions from friends and family, "Did you hear from that college yet?" He has spent many a night he should have been sleeping lying in bed wondering whether he would be heading to his dream school in the fall. He has read numerous books and has done serious research on just what it took to get where he wanted to be. He continues
When applying to University there are multiple steps which lead to many frustrations and stress. Everyone from the top student to the student who is forced to apply, deals with these frustrations. In my experience, I threw things, abused my computer, and my eyes may have watered from the frustrations of course. Not only is the process hard, filling in every form, obtaining letter of recommendation, but the four years that you spent trying to come up with the information you are providing was hard
Does affirmative action make university admission policy? By: Megan Larrison Every spring, high school students around the country anxiously check their mailboxes, hoping to receive letters of acceptance to their dream colleges. Typically, in perfect world, acceptance to college should be based on grades, SAT scores, letters of recommendation, character, extra-curricular activities, and personal statements. Recently, however, another factor in the admission process has become more and more accepted;
Introduction Known as one of the biggest obstacles in higher education to date would arguably be the use of affirmative action within the higher education admission process for both private and public institutions (Kaplin & Lee, 2014; Wang & Shulruf, 2012). The focus of current research is an attempt to either justify or deny the use of affirmative action within current practices through various higher education institutions, and though any one person could potentially be swayed to side with the
Social Networking and College Marilyn McGrath, director of admissions from Harvard says “admissions counselors at her college don’t check social networking sites on a regular basis, but if they note anything in a student’s application that raises a possible red flag, they will” (Cartwright). With the rising popularity of social networking, colleges are now starting to look at students’ profiles during recruitment and before accepting them. The most important information that schools are looking