The Final Entry

The People’s Choice

People, students as well as parents have trouble with the process in which college admissions accept applicants. Premier schools have always gotten the best students in the country, however now there decisions are now being swayed for different reasons. Parents who went to ivy league schools and give large donations to the schools they went now are giving their children a better chance of going to that school. These parents are manipulating schools like Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. After researching using articles, I interviewed a student that this happened to himself. An applicant to Princeton with a 4.0 GPA and passed what Princeton had said, “It’s what we look for.” was rejected to his top choice.

A pristine athlete and student got rejected from a top school in the country for reasoning that is, “unknown”. While many students get into these schools for reasons that kids find unfair the person that I interviewed found it wrong and unjust. “I know kids who get into schools that are better than Princeton while I have better grades.” he said strongly to me. This quote is what would come out of many more student’s own mouths as well. What was also brought up while I talked to this student was what a admissions officer said were the deciding factors in getting into their schools. When I asked this question he responded after a few minutes having to really think about it. He said that when he applied to many of these top schools they all said that not one of the factors would be where your parents went to school. This then made me wonder, how has legacy become a known deciding factor? Some of his own friends got into Princeton while he had a better resume is what he told me and they still got into the school.
After college kids go to get jobs that you make large amounts of money, these schools are pipelines right to those jobs. The most unfair and unequal reasoning for getting into such great schools has now drawn bounding questions and frustration.  Why do kids deserve to get into these amazing schools? Fair, or not fair?

Blog post 2

                                                        Dynasty or a Legacy?

                  Students are beginning to get rejected from their top choices time and time again because they don’t have ties to the school that they applied to. Parents as well as the students aren’t feeling like they have a fair trial to get their children into these great universities. “To many frustrated parents, one word describes the admissions process at America's elite universities:  arbitrary.”( Legacies of Injustice) Parents from around the United States now feel the need to push and push their kids to the limit to get into college. Ivy leagues now are taking kids for reasons not valid as decision makers in an admissions process. Besides the immense amount of parents who think of the process to be out of proportion many disagree. “Students who go to school because of a legacy do better at the school.” said Shikha Dalmia in her article. When this is read and brought up the views of many people are swayed, kids growing up in these wealthy households are better suited to go to a college as good as they do because of their parents. Why though? The way a child is brought up with parents who treat them as an adult their whole lives get them ready for situations, which make them succeed in greater levels than others. Students who get into these amazing schools then bring these attributes to their children, creating more and more ivy league bound students from the day that they were born. Some people believe that legacies are bad for our schools and that this should be changed. From the evidence given, which side do you stick with?

Legacies-Fair?

The Beginning of a Revolution

            The college admission’s focus on legacies is biased in many different ways and should be ended. Universities from all over the country use legacies as factors in student’s admissions process. Is this fair to the students who receive 4.0 GPA’s and perfect SAT scores? Kids from everywhere get rejected from ivy leagues because of this time after time. This is so unfair to these kids since they had worked so hard and even when they might be smarter they don’t get what they deserve. The structures in which these schools have processed these conclusions have brought concern and worry to children with parents who went to bad schools. Although the opposition says that students whose parents were legacies do better at these universities rather than the students who don’t. In the report entitled, “Legacies of Injustice”, Shikha Dalmia reports that “The New York Times reports that Harvard turned down 1,100 applicants with perfect 800s on the math SAT this year. Yale rejected several with perfect 2400s on the three-part SAT exam. Princeton said no to thousands with 4.0 GPAs.” These statistics show an amazing ratio in which people that get outstanding grades still not receiving an acceptance letter from a top university. Everyone in the country believes that the system in our nation should be equal and everyone should get a shot. In the end, legacies can be favored in different ways, although I view them to serve a higher purpose.