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BigTrev989: college admissions bias
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Trevor Fanning
College Admissions feature
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Report: College admissions directors biased towards ambitious, intelligent students
According to a recent study conducted by the University of Extraneous Research in Berkeley, Cal, the college admissions process, a hitherto level playing field for college-bound high school students, now exhibits a massive slant in favor of students showing academic promise and an ardent desire to further their education through the college curriculum.
Based on a random sample group of 500 students, all with widely varying individual instances of scholastic performance, UER researchers consistently found that students with the highest grades, standardized test scores, and those who participated in extracurricular activities or displayed an active devotion to their studies are the same students most likely to be selected for admission by the nation’s top colleges. “The odds are heavily tilted in their favor,” said UER researcher David Brown, “these kids with the drive to succeed, that motivation to go further, they’re the ones who are going to get picked by the Ivy League schools, and eventually wind up with whopping six-figure incomes. It’s horribly unfair to the rest of us.”
Many underachieving students are equally dispirited by these startling finds. “This totally blows,” said pothead Jeremy Gilmour. “I wanted to go to Berkeley to study music theory, but now they’ll probably just give away all the up-for-grabs scholarships to a bunch of fruity nerds for their so-called ‘outstanding efforts’ in high school. What a load of -’’ Gilmour was then distracted mid-sentence by the ghastly sight of a communal nerd dwelling, or “study group” that had temporarily taken up encampment in the school library. “See, that’s the kind of crap I’m talking about,” he said, jeering mockingly at the gang of tactless geeks. “Hey four-eyes, how’s that cram session going?”
The ramifications of the college boards’ discriminatory tactics are manifest throughout the country, where many a doleful senior now ponders with pensive uncertainty his post-high school fate. “They say now that the college boards won’t take you if you got a rap sheet. That’s crazy, dog.” carped Tyrell “Biggs” Johnson. “I was going to apply to Ole Miss, but now after all the negative publicity from that last statutory rape conviction, it’s going to be tough to land a spot at any halfway-decent university. On the real, son, them uptight college admissions people is crazy with all they rules and shit.” While the negativity garnered from Johnson’s rape case may certainly not help his plight to attend college, it is ultimately the college admissions directors who will determine his fate.
“It is the college admissions folks who have the final say, and if they are unfairly inclined to receive students of high academic caliber over apathetic burnouts and aloof morons with little or no interest in their studies, what hope is there for the rest of us who set such attainably low standards for ourselves?” added Brown.
College admitters have essentially driven a cleft in the student body, dividing kids by their capacity to apply themselves and work diligently in school. It is a mockery of the notion of equal education for all. By placing distinguished students ahead of unaccomplished failures, we are only exacerbating the problem, multiplying their conditioned sense of inadequacy. Reform is direly pressing, lest the nation’s colleges be entirely overtaken by those aspirators for higher knowledge, and a humorlessly competitive attitude adopted instinctively in the scholastic rat-race.
BigTrev989: nothing really
BigTrev989: just doing some shit for newspaper
pXnK GiEpY: writing another article?
BigTrev989: yeah
pXnK GiEpY: whats it on
BigTrev989: college admissions bias
pXnK GiEpY: like racism?
BigTrev989: not quite
BigTrev989 wants to directly connect.
pXnK GiEpY is now directly connected.
Trevor Fanning
College Admissions feature
540 words
Report: College admissions directors biased towards ambitious, intelligent students
According to a recent study conducted by the University of Extraneous Research in Berkeley, Cal, the college admissions process, a hitherto level playing field for college-bound high school students, now exhibits a massive slant in favor of students showing academic promise and an ardent desire to further their education through the college curriculum.
Based on a random sample group of 500 students, all with widely varying individual instances of scholastic performance, UER researchers consistently found that students with the highest grades, standardized test scores, and those who participated in extracurricular activities or displayed an active devotion to their studies are the same students most likely to be selected for admission by the nation’s top colleges. “The odds are heavily tilted in their favor,” said UER researcher David Brown, “these kids with the drive to succeed, that motivation to go further, they’re the ones who are going to get picked by the Ivy League schools, and eventually wind up with whopping six-figure incomes. It’s horribly unfair to the rest of us.”
Many underachieving students are equally dispirited by these startling finds. “This totally blows,” said pothead Jeremy Gilmour. “I wanted to go to Berkeley to study music theory, but now they’ll probably just give away all the up-for-grabs scholarships to a bunch of fruity nerds for their so-called ‘outstanding efforts’ in high school. What a load of -’’ Gilmour was then distracted mid-sentence by the ghastly sight of a communal nerd dwelling, or “study group” that had temporarily taken up encampment in the school library. “See, that’s the kind of crap I’m talking about,” he said, jeering mockingly at the gang of tactless geeks. “Hey four-eyes, how’s that cram session going?”
The ramifications of the college boards’ discriminatory tactics are manifest throughout the country, where many a doleful senior now ponders with pensive uncertainty his post-high school fate. “They say now that the college boards won’t take you if you got a rap sheet. That’s crazy, dog.” carped Tyrell “Biggs” Johnson. “I was going to apply to Ole Miss, but now after all the negative publicity from that last statutory rape conviction, it’s going to be tough to land a spot at any halfway-decent university. On the real, son, them uptight college admissions people is crazy with all they rules and shit.” While the negativity garnered from Johnson’s rape case may certainly not help his plight to attend college, it is ultimately the college admissions directors who will determine his fate.
“It is the college admissions folks who have the final say, and if they are unfairly inclined to receive students of high academic caliber over apathetic burnouts and aloof morons with little or no interest in their studies, what hope is there for the rest of us who set such attainably low standards for ourselves?” added Brown.
College admitters have essentially driven a cleft in the student body, dividing kids by their capacity to apply themselves and work diligently in school. It is a mockery of the notion of equal education for all. By placing distinguished students ahead of unaccomplished failures, we are only exacerbating the problem, multiplying their conditioned sense of inadequacy. Reform is direly pressing, lest the nation’s colleges be entirely overtaken by those aspirators for higher knowledge, and a humorlessly competitive attitude adopted instinctively in the scholastic rat-race.