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College AdmissionACT, GPA, SAT, and writing ability are some major factors that Simpson college’s admissions use when determining if a student will be accepted or not. Like most other school students must meet certain recommendations in these areas to even get accepted. I think that a student’s ability to write should be the cornerstone of college admissions it allows the student to state their goals and values, can help be the deciding factor in the admission process, and it can be an opportunity

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It is an unfortunate reality of the 21st century that admission into college is no longer a natural and calm transition made by young students as they enter adulthood. The pressure of competition for academic excellence escalates rampantly throughout high school and multiplies ten-fold at the mention of standardized testing and college applications. It leaves students nervously exhausted by the time that the thought of college presents itself in the first place. The unfortunate reality of the American

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Why admission essay is required to be written?Admission essay is an academic paper that a student writes to complete an application for a university or college program. It is normally not longer than two pages (around 300-500 words), so you have to be concrete in your thoughts and choose your words carefully. Statement of purpose, personal statement and letter of intent are considered the types of admission essays. The main idea of this writing task is to deliver some information about yourself

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often the college admissions process—a process that involves admissionsoffices, guidance counselors, parents and many other stakeholders—contributes to thisproblem. As a rite of passage for many students and a major focus for many parents, thecollege admissions process is powerfully positioned to send different messages that helpyoung people become more generous and humane in ways that benefit not only society butstudents themselves. Yet high school students often perceive colleges as simply

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are based. So what can schools do to make sure that they remain on the radar for prospective students? More importantly, what can small private liberal arts colleges, like Salem College, do to compete with big name public

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College admissions are simple. They check your GPA and ACT/SAT test scores and see if your scores match their expectations. If you do, they will take you. If you don’t, they will reject you. What about if your score is in the middle? What if you don’t quite meet their expectations, but you don’t really fall below them? Legacy is like a tiebreaker or the cherry on top of the cake, but currently is a very controversial topic. Being a legacy student can cause a significant impact on the admission process

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dedicated alumni. In A is For Admission, Michele Hernandez mentions some of these discrepancies when explaining that legacies, students with a parent who attended the university, have a forty percent acceptance rate at Dartmouth in comparison with the typical ten percent acceptance rate (183). Additionally, Hernandez further explains that athletes

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College admissions officers say the worst essays they read on college applications are self-absorbed recitals of high-school achievements: the what-I-learned-by-working-so-hard-a s-yearbook-editor essay, the I-went-to-Europe-and-learned-how-complex-the-world-is essay and the how-to-solve-world-hunger-and-all-the-other-world-problems essay.The best essays, the officers say, are those that reveal something about the author's personality. They often do it in an originial way, and, usually, read like

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