Reply to Anyone else thinks the whole college admission process is a total farse?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Anyone else thinks the whole college admission process is a total farse?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen- our tax dollars support all of these institutions, including the private schools with multi- billion dollar endowments. I think it is reasonable to have an opinion on the process. Why should everyone have to put up or shut up?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I will admit we are not happy with the results of the early rounds.[/b] And I hope anyone reading understand it is not coming from a place of bitterness but from a place of helplessness. It is hard to digest how the most venerable institutions of this country peddle and getaway with blatant lies year after year and demolish the spirits of a vast majority of kids.

I am trying to understand how any of their claims add up?

"Application are reviewed holistically &  We also like receiving 50,000 applications

They never explain how they manage to read 50k+ apps and how spending 2-5 min per app allows holistic evaluation is beyond me. This is total crap!

There's got to be a better way. I don't know why no journalists have covered this. We are fighting about diversity/discrimination but the issues with college admission is more basic. The college admission first need to stop lying to the kids, period!

[/quote]

We JUST had this thread last week. You have to take responsibility for the colleges [b]you chose[/b] to apply to and your feelings about those colleges.

The colleges manage the applications as they see fit. If you didn't want to be part of a 50,000 person application pool, you didn't have to be. That was a choice you made.[/quote][/quote]

Not really.   I don't get to decide where majority of my tax dollars are spent.  I can only impact that by voting, but even then we don't vote on "which highway will get repaired this year". I still have to pay taxes no matter who wins the election.

These colleges are not picking someone with a 1100 and 2.5 over a 1600/4.0UW (unless it's an athlete).  They know that test scores are just a part of the picture.  When admission rates are less than 20% a significant portion of "highly qualified" candidates are going to be rejected---that's just life.  If you choose to apply to elite schools you should know that and be prepared for the consequences (ie. You might not get in even with perfect scores).  And yes, a kid from a disadvantaged background (poor, worried about roof over head and where food is coming from, parents who did not attend college and know how to help them, in a school district where most don't go on to college let alone elite colleges, etc) does deserve to have that taken into account---much harder to get a 1400 and 4.0+ when you have so many other concerns.  They may not have 1000+ hours of volunteering in the right area or elite summer programs or amazing ECs, but they can be considered "equivalent candidate" to your other kids with different scores.  It's the whole picture colleges want to fill diverse classes on many levels.  Know this going into the admission process and pick you list wisely. 
Nobody is guaranteed admission a Top university...but we are lucky to live in a country where anyone who wants to attend college can find a way to (largely).  You are not "tested into college track at age 12/13" like so many countries.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics