College Admissions

            In this article, the author offers ideas about how students should take classes that challenge them rather than give them an easy A.  This article goes on to say that many kids are nervous and anxious when it comes to getting college acceptance letters.  Many kids have their top schools and want to get into them.  This stress is also on the parents because parents want what is best for their kids yet have to worry about paying for top schools and tutors to get into these schools.  Parents start this stress when kids are little and try to get them into the best pre-schools and elementary schools.  Then parents pay for expensive tutors and camps to help kids with school and SAT’s scores.  It is stuff like this that affects kids getting into colleges.  All colleges really look at is grades and test scores without really looking at the level of the class.  There could be a person who took hard classes and yet did not get A’s while someone took less challenging classes and got A’s and as a result colleges can not make that distinction.  Because of this kids that are hard workers and smart do not get into these colleges.   Also colleges look at past schools to see if the person went to the best schools as a child.  Sometimes this is impossible for people because they can not afford the best schools and yet the person that wants to go to an Ivy League school because they are smart and hard workers.  Colleges need to look at the level of the class and if that person took challenging class compared to easy classes.  Colleges need to also look at extra circular actives such as volunteer work, sports, or the arts to look at quality rather than the quality of extra things a person is involved in.  If colleges use this as a way to pick kids for their college then they will pick good hard working kids that will be great successes in life.

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