This system is nuts! The application isn't wholistic enough to properly screen candidates for college admission. They expect us to sum up our entire education and life experience in an essay in less than 650 words. This expectation seems unrealistic to me. Another problem with this reliance on essays is that those who can afford to hire a college counselor can buy themselves a higher chance to be admitted to colleges. That can't be fair!
Is there a solution to this problem? I'm not sure. Clearly college admission should be based on talent and intelligence, but how can one truly measure that? Not through a test or essays, that's for sure. Trying to base admissions off of essays or tests is silly, because there's no way they can properly measure a student's potential.
I agree. I think that the essay should be looked at by colleges, and I think the whole idea should be changed. Colleges put too much importance on a single essay. They think that this will be able to tell them our skills as a writer and, in some cases, what kind of person we are.
ReplyDeleteI agree as well. I look at the prompts for the supplemental essays and think it's crazy to have to pinpoint life changing experiences at 17 years old. There is a lot of pressure on essays and I wish there was better way for colleges to get to know us as individuals.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice if there was another way for colleges to tell what type of person you are but it is extremely difficult. There are so many students that are applying to colleges that the only reasonable way to try to figure out who a person is, is through test and essays. I can't see another way that colleges could run through all the applicants without using essays and test.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice if there was another way for colleges to tell what type of person you are but it is extremely difficult. There are so many students that are applying to colleges that the only reasonable way to try to figure out who a person is, is through test and essays. I can't see another way that colleges could run through all the applicants without using essays and test.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it is feasable but I wish the college application process worked in reverse. Colleges would send you applications inviting you to attend, and you would decide which to go to. This way, colleges do all the heavy lifting in order for students to attend.
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